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Doctor in the House

Happy-Go-Laughable Hit!

6.5(31)19541h 32m2

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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Released
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Language
English
Part of The Doctor Collection · 7 films
  • student of medicine

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Director

Ralph Thomas

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalU23 Mar 1954
  • IrelandIE

    • TheatricalPG14 May 1954
  • XCXC

    • Theatrical30 Jul 1957

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Doctor in the House was released on 23 March 1954.

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    CinemaSerf

    4/4/2022

    6/10

    Time hasn't been especially kind to this, but there is a strength amongst this pretty solid cast that, alongside some half decent writing that avoids the obvious smut and double entendre to be found in the "Carry Ons", makes it a passable watch. It centres around a group of medical students under the imperious supervision of James Robertson Justice's "Sir Lancelot" trying to get a grip with their studies - a task wel…

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