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Doctor in the House

Happy-Go-Laughable Hit!

Not Rated Comedy

Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Kay Kendall

Writer: Richard Gordon, Nicholas Pipps

Release Date:
March 23, 1954
Ratings:
6.5 / 10
Director:
Ralph Thomas
Companies:
The Rank Organisation

Overview

The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.