TMDb Rating
6.5/10
29 verified votes
Doctor in the House (1954)
Comedy
92 min
"Happy-Go-Laughable Hit!"
Plot Summary
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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Keywords to include
ComedyRalph ThomasDirk BogardeMuriel Pavlow1954
Director
Ralph Thomas
Top Cast
Dirk BogardeMuriel PavlowKenneth MoreDonald SindenKay Kendall
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