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Release Date: 1954

Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Kay Kendall, Suzanne Cloutier, Donald Houston, James Robertson Justice, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden

Categories: Movies, Parody, Comedy, Farce, Film adaptation

Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film, directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty Box. The screenplay, by Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon and Ronald Wilkinson, is based on the novel by Gordon, and follows a group of students through medical school. It was the most popular box office film of 1954 in Great Britain. Its success spawned six sequels and a television series also entitled Doctor in the House. It made Dirk Bogarde one of the biggest British stars of the 1950s. Other well known British actors featured in the film were Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and Donald Houston.  MORE

Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film, directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty Box. The screenplay, by Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon and Ronald Wilkinson, is based on the novel by Gordon, and follows a group of students through medical school. It was the most popular box office film of 1954 in Great Britain. Its success spawned six sequels and a television series also entitled Doctor in the House. It made Dirk Bogarde one of the biggest British stars of the 1950s. Other well known British actors featured in the film were Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and Donald Houston. James Robertson Justice appeared as the irascible chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt, a role he would repeat in many of the sequels. The story follows the fortunes of Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde), starting as a new medical student at the fictional St Swithin's Hospital in London. His five years of student life, involving drinking, dating women, and falling foul of the rigid hospital authorities, provide many humorous incidents. When he has to leave his first choice of lodgings to get away from his landlady's amorous daughter (Shirley Eaton), he ends up with three amiable but less-than-shining LESS