Doctor in the House (1954)
Doctor in the House (1954)
Plot.
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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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Dirk Bogarde
Simon Sparrow
Muriel Pavlow
Nurse Joy Gibson
Kenneth More
Richard Grimsdyke
Donald Sinden
Tony Benskin
Kay Kendall
Isobel Minster
James Robertson Justice
Sir Lancelot Spratt
Donald Houston
Taffy Evans
Suzanne Cloutier
Stella
George Coulouris
Briggs
Jean Taylor Smith
Sister Virtue
Ralph Thomas
Director
Geoffrey Keen
Dean
Martin Boddey
Demonstrator at Pedal Machine
Richard Gordon
Writer
Nicholas Phipps
Writer
Joan Sims
Rigor Mortis
Betty E. Box
Producer
Gudrun Ure
May
Bruce Montgomery
Composer
Harry Locke
Jessup
Cyril Chamberlain
Policeman
Ernest Steward
Cinematographer
Ernest Clark
Dr. Parrish
Gerald Thomas
Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 23, 1954
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 32m
Filming LocationsPinewood Studios, United Kingdom
Genres
Wiki.
Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty Box. The screenplay, by Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon and Ronald Wilkinson, is based on the 1952 novel by Gordon, and follows a group of students through medical school.
It was the most popular box office film of 1954 in Great Britain. Its success spawned six sequels, and also a television and radio series entitled Doctor in the House.
It made Dirk Bogarde one of the biggest British stars of the 1950s. Other well-known British actors featured in the film were Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and Donald Houston. James Robertson Justice appeared as the irascible chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt, a role he would repeat in many of the sequels.
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