Doctor at Large (1957)

Movie"All the BARE FACTS and FIGURES That Add Up to a Young Medic's Love Life!"
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NR 1 hr 44 minJul 27th, 1957Comedy, RomanceThe Doctor Collection PosterPart of The Doctor Collection
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) finds himself going from post to post, filling in for other physicians. At one distant country post, he is taken aback when he works with a patient whose husband died after Simon treated the man years before. In another hospital, Simon examines a surprisingly mature teen and also tries courting devoted nurse Nan McPherson (Shirley Eaton).
StarringDirk BogardeMuriel PavlowDonald Sinden
DirectorRalph Thomas

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:July 27th, 1957
On DVD & Blu-ray:December 4th, 2007 - Buy DVD
Original Language:English
Production Companies:The Rank Organisation
Movie Tags:
doctorhospital

The Doctor Collection

The Doctor Series consists of seven British comedies made between 1954 and 1970, based either on the "Doctor" series of novels written by the physician Richard Gordon, or the characters in them. The series follow the adventures of a group of young doctors at a London hospital, as they try to stay out of trouble while chasing the nurses. The early films featured Dirk Bogarde in the lead as Doctor Sparrow and Donald Sinden as Benskin. Later films centred around Leslie Phillips. In all of them, James Robertson Justice played the imposing chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt. The films later served as inspiration for seven different TV series between 1969 and 1991, totalling 157 episodes.