Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse is a 1978 British

Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Justin Cartwright

Justin Cartwright

Justin Cartwright is a British novelist.He was born in South Africa, where his father was the editor of the Rand Daily Mail newspaper, and was educated there, in the United States and at Trinity College, Oxford. Cartwright has worked in advertising and has directed documentaries, films and...

 and starring Debbie Ash, Carolyne Argyle, Beryl Reid

Beryl Reid

Beryl Elizabeth Reid, OBE was a British actress of stage and screen.-Early life:Born in Hereford, England in 1919, Reid was the daughter of Scottish parents and grew up in Manchester where she attended Withington and Levenshulme High Schools.-Career:Reid applied for and was accepted in a revue in...

 and John Le Mesurier

John Le Mesurier

John Le Mesurier was a BAFTA Award-winning English actor. He is most famous for his role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the popular 1970s BBC comedy Dad's Army.-Career:...

. It was based on a novel by Christopher Wood

Christopher Wood (writer)

Christopher Wood is an English screenwriter and novelist best known under the pseudonym 'Timothy Lea' for the Confessions series of novels and films. Under his own name, he adapted two James Bond novels for the screen: The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker .Wood has written many novels...

. A new student nurse arrives at a hospital, attracting interest from the staff with comedic consequences. The film was one of several soft sex comedies released in the seventies to cash in on the success of the 'Confessions' series (also written by Wood under the pseudonym 'Timothy Lea'), and like the Confessions films it was actually adapted from a book (the author's credit going to the fictional Rosie herself). Nine Rosie Dixon novels were published but only the first one was adapted into a movie. The character Penny Sutton, Rosie's best friend in the movie (and in the books) was the star of an earlier series of similar novels which depicted Penny as an airline stewardess.

The film stars Debbie Ash, better known as one of the dance troupe Hot Gossip

Hot Gossip

-Formation:Arlene Phillips came to London to learn and teach developing American Jazz dance routines. Employed as a dance teacher, she taught at locations including the Pineapple Dance Studios and the Italia Conti Stage School. In 1974, Phillips started forming the core of a troupe; Italia Conti...

, and also stars Debbie's sister Leslie Ash

Leslie Ash

Leslie Ash is an English actress, best known for her role in the sitcom Men Behaving Badly. Her book My Life Behaving Badly: The Autobiography was published in 2007....

 (later a TV star in her own right) as Rosie's sister Natalie.

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