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Critics rate it 21 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Critics rate it 21 points higher than audiences do.
31 audience votes
Key crew
- Ralph ThomasDirector
- Richard GordonScreenplay
- Nicholas PippsScreenplay
- Bruce MontgomeryOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Dirk BogardeSimon Sparrow
- Muriel PavlowNurse Joy Gibson
- Kenneth MoreRichard Grimsdyke
- Donald SindenTony Benskin
- Kay KendallMiss Isobel Minster
- James Robertson JusticeSir Lancelot Spratt
- Donald HoustonTaffy Evans
- Suzanne CloutierStella
- George CoulourisBriggs
- Jean Taylor SmithSister Virtue
- Nicholas PhippsMagistrate
- Geoffrey KeenDean
Stills
Themes
student of medicine