Rosie Dixon – Night Nurse
| Rose Dixon – Night Nurse | |
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| Directed by | Justin Cartwright |
| Written by | Christopher Wood Justin Cartwright |
| Based on | novel by Christopher Wood |
| Produced by | Frank Bevis |
| Starring | Beryl Reid John Le Mesurier Arthur Askey Debbie Ash |
| Cinematography | Alex Thomson |
| Edited by | Geoffrey Foot |
| Music by | Ed Welch |
Release date | 1978 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £300,000[1] |
Rosie Dixon – Night Nurse is a 1978 British sex comedy film directed by Justin Cartwright and starring Debbie Ash, Carolyne Argyle, Beryl Reid and John Le Mesurier.[2] It is based on a novel by Christopher Wood. The plot revolves around a new student nurse at a hospital, who attracts interest from the staff with comic consequences.
The film is one of several softcore sex comedies released in the 1970s to cash in on the success of the Confessions series (also written by Wood under the pseudonym 'Timothy Lea'). Like the Confessions films, it was adapted from a book, the author's credit going to the fictional Rosie herself. It is the only one of the nine Rosie Dixon novels to be adapted into a movie. The character of Penny Sutton – Rosie's best friend in the movie and in the books – is the star of an earlier series of similar novels that depict Penny as an airline stewardess.
Star Debbie Ash is better known as one of the dance troupe Hot Gossip, along with her sister Leslie Ash (later a TV star in her own right), who plays Rosie's sister Natalie.
Cast
- Beryl Reid – Matron
- John Le Mesurier – Sir Archibald MacGregor
- Arthur Askey – Mr. Arkwright
- Debbie Ash – Rosie Dixon
- Liz Fraser – Mrs. Dixon
- Lance Percival – Jake Fletcher
- John Junkin – Mr. Dixon
- Bob Todd – Mr. Buchanan
- Carolyne Argyle – Penny Green
- Jeremy Sinden – Dr. Robert Fishlock
- Christopher Ellison – Dr. Adam Quint
- Peter Mantle – Dr. Tom Richmond
- Ian Sharp – Dr.Seamus MacSweeney
- Leslie Ash – Natalie Dixon
- David Timson – Geoffrey Ramsbottom
- John Clive – Grieves
- Patricia Hodge – Sister Belter
- Peter Bull – August Visitor
- Glenna Forster-Jones – Staff Nurse Smythe
- Harry Towb – Mr. Phillips
- Joan Benham – Sister Tutor
- Sara Pugsley – Night Sister
- Jon Lingard-Lane – Traction Patient / Barnabus Medic
- Claire Davenport – Mrs. Buchanan
