Doctor at Large

Doctor at Large

104 mins | Comedy, Romance | March 26, 1957

The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.

Doctor at Large

104 mins | Comedy, Romance | March 26, 1957

Doctor at Large
The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers The Rank Organisation
Original title Doctor at Large
Directors Ralph Thomas
Writers Richard Gordon, Nicholas Phipps

Cast

Dirk Bogarde

as Dr Simon Sparrow

Muriel Pavlow

as Dr Joy Gibson

Donald Sinden

as Dr Tony Benskin

James Robertson Justice

as Sir Lancelot Spratt

Shirley Eaton

as Nurse Nan McPherson

Michael Medwin

as Dr. Charles Bingham

Derek Farr

as Dr. Erasmus Potter-Shine

Lionel Jeffries

as Dr. Hatchett

Athene Seyler

as Lady Hawkins

Noel Purcell

as Padre

George Coulouris

as Pascoe

Anne Heywood

as Emerald

Barbara Murray

as Kitty

Mervyn Johns

as Smith

Dilys Laye

as Mrs. Jasmine Hatchett

Terence Longdon

as George

Maureen Pryor

as Mrs. Dalton

Ernest Thesiger

as Examiner

Geoffrey Keen

as Examiner

Martin Benson

as Maharajah of Rhanda

John Chandos

as O'Malley

Edward Chapman

as Wilkins

Judith Furse

as Mrs. Digby

Gladys Henson

as Mrs. Wilkins

Ernest Jay

as Charles Hopcroft

Harry Locke

as Porter

A.E. Matthews

as Duke of Skye and Lewes

Guy Middleton

as Major Porter

Dandy Nichols

as Lady in Outpatients Dept.