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Doctor in the House (1954)

Doctor in the House poster
Directed by
Ralph Thomas
Genre
comedy film, parody film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
U
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 31 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of young men go through medical school together. They face exams, romances, and the strict head surgeon.

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What happens

Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston and James Robertson Justice. It was produced by Betty Box. The screenplay, by Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon and Ronald Wilkinson, is based on the 1952 novel Doctor in the House 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 also television, radio, and audio podcast series titled Doctor in the House. It made Dirk Bogarde one of the biggest British stars of the 1950s. James Robertson Justice appeared as the irascible chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt, a role he would repeat in many of the sequels. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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