Doctor in the House

Doctor in the House - 1954 | 92mins | Comedy | Colour

The Production Team

Director: Ralph Thomas.
Producer: Betty E. Box.
Script: Richard Gordon and Nicholas Phipps.
Cinematography: Ernest Steward.
Editing: Gerald Thomas.
Art Direction: Carmen Dillon.
Costume Design: Yvonne Caffin.
Makeup Department: W.T. Partleton.
Sound Department: Peter Boita, Gordon K. McCallum and John W. Mitchell.
Original Music: Bruce Montgomery.
Conductor: Muir Mathieson.

The Cast

Dirk Bogarde - Simon Sparrow
Muriel Pavlow - Joy
Kenneth More - Richard Grimsdyke
Donald Sinden - Benskin
Kay Kendall - Isobel
James Robertson - Justice Lancelot Spratt
Donald Houston - Taffy
Suzanne Cloutier - Stella
George Coulouris Briggs
Jean Taylor Smith - Sister Virtue
Geoffrey Keen - Dean
Joan Sims - Rigor Mortis

Plot Synopsis

Doctor in the House centred on a group of four medical students at St. Swithins Teaching Hospital, Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde), Grimsdyke (Kenneth More), Benskin (Donald Sinden) and Taffy (Donald Houston), who get into an incredible series of scrapes in their bid to become doctors. The hero is Simon Sparrow, committed to his work to qualify as a doctor; he falls in with a very mixed group of medical students more interested in women and sport. After a series of incidents scrapes with head doctor Sir Lancelot Sprat (James Robert Justice), Sparrow and Taffy pass, while Benskin and Grimsdyke - not for the first time - fail. Catalogues of venerable medical jokes are trotted out like new in this enormously successful comedy that was the top British money-maker of the year; several sequels followed.