Doctor in the House
Released: March 23, 1954Runtime: 92 min
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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Dirk Bogarde
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Muriel Pavlow
as Nurse Joy Gibson
Kenneth More
as Richard Grimsdyke
Donald Sinden
as Tony Benskin
Kay Kendall
as Isobel Minster
James Robertson Justice
as Sir Lancelot Spratt
Donald Houston
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Suzanne Cloutier
as Stella
George Coulouris
as Briggs
Jean Taylor Smith
as Sister Virtue
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