Comedy · United Kingdom · 1954 · 1h 32m

Doctor in the House

Director

Cast

Dirk Bogarde as Simon Sparrow Muriel Pavlow as Nurse Joy Gibson Kenneth More as Richard Grimsdyke Donald Sinden as Tony Benskin Kay Kendall as Miss Isobel Minster James Robertson Justice as Sir Lancelot Spratt

Crew

Richard Gordon — Screenplay Nicholas Pipps — Screenplay Betty E. Box — Producer

Tagline

Happy-Go-Laughable Hit!

Synopsis

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.

Mood & Themes

student of medicine

Key Collaborators

Ralph Thomas Director Richard Gordon Screenplay Nicholas Pipps Screenplay Betty E. Box Producer

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