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Doctor in the House

"Happy-Go-Laughable Hit!"

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.

Top Cast

  • Dirk Bogarde

    Dirk Bogarde

    Simon Sparrow

  • Muriel Pavlow

    Muriel Pavlow

    Nurse Joy Gibson

  • Kenneth More

    Kenneth More

    Richard Grimsdyke

  • Donald Sinden

    Donald Sinden

    Tony Benskin

  • Kay Kendall

    Kay Kendall

    Miss Isobel Minster

  • James Robertson Justice

    James Robertson Justice

    Sir Lancelot Spratt

  • Donald Houston

    Donald Houston

    Taffy Evans

  • Suzanne Cloutier

    Suzanne Cloutier

    Stella

  • George Coulouris

    George Coulouris

    Briggs

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.

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