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Doctor in the House(1954)
Status: Released
Date: 1954-03-23
65%
31 Votes
Time: 1h 32m
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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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United Kingdom
ProductionCompanies:
The Rank Organisation
Movie: Doctor in the House
Top 10 Billed Cast
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
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