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65% Critic Match
Doctor in the House
“Happy-Go-Laughable Hit!”
6.5 / 10• 1954• 1h 32m•NR• English
Comedy
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Dirk Bogarde
Simon Sparrow
Lead
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
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Ralph Thomas's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Doctor in the House is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
