Doctor in the House
Happy-Go-Laughable Hit!
1954 · 92 min · ★ 6.5 · Comedy
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.
Directed by Ralph Thomas · Written by Richard Gordon
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Dirk Bogarde Simon Sparrow -
Muriel Pavlow Nurse Joy Gibson -
Kenneth More Richard Grimsdyke -
Donald Sinden Tony Benskin -
Kay Kendall Miss Isobel Minster -
James Robertson Justice Sir Lancelot Spratt -
Donald Houston Taffy Evans -
Suzanne Cloutier Stella -
George Coulouris Briggs -
Jean Taylor Smith Sister Virtue -
Nicholas Phipps Magistrate -
Geoffrey Keen Dean
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