Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Ralph Thomas Director
- Dirk Bogarde as Simon Sparrow
- Muriel Pavlow as 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 as Taffy Evans
- Suzanne Cloutier as Stella
- George Coulouris as Briggs
- Jean Taylor Smith as Sister Virtue
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