Doctor at Large
All the BARE FACTS and FIGURES That Add Up to a Young Medic's Love Life!
1957 | 104m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Ralph Thomas |
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| Writer: | Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon |
| Staring: |
| 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). | |
| Release Date: | Mar 26, 1957 |
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| Director: | Ralph Thomas |
| Writer: | Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon |
| Genres: | Comedy, Romance |
| Keywords | hospital, doctor |
| Production Companies | The Rank Organisation |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 27, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Dirk Bogarde | Dr Simon Sparrow |
| Muriel Pavlow | Dr Joy Gibson |
| Donald Sinden | Dr Tony Benskin |
| James Robertson Justice | Sir Lancelot Spratt |
| Shirley Eaton | Nurse Nan McPherson |
| Michael Medwin | Dr. Charles Bingham |
| Derek Farr | Dr. Erasmus Potter-Shine |
| Lionel Jeffries | Dr. Hatchett |
| Athene Seyler | Lady Hawkins |
| Noel Purcell | Padre |
| George Coulouris | Pascoe |
| Anne Heywood | Emerald |
| Barbara Murray | Kitty |
| Mervyn Johns | Smith |
| Dilys Laye | Mrs. Jasmine Hatchett |
| Terence Longdon | George |
| Maureen Pryor | Mrs. Dalton |
| Ernest Thesiger | Examiner |
| Geoffrey Keen | Examiner |
| Martin Benson | Maharajah of Rhanda |
| John Chandos | O'Malley |
| Edward Chapman | Wilkins |
| Judith Furse | Mrs. Digby |
| Gladys Henson | Mrs. Wilkins |
| Ernest Jay | Charles Hopcroft |
| Harry Locke | Porter |
| A.E. Matthews | Duke of Skye and Lewes |
| Guy Middleton | Major Porter |
| Dandy Nichols | Lady in Outpatients Dept. |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Ralph Thomas | Director |
| Nicholas Phipps | Screenplay |
| Bruce Montgomery | Music |
| Ernest Steward | Director of Photography |
| Richard Gordon | Novel |
| Frederick Wilson | Editor |
| Charles Van der Goor | Sound |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Betty E. Box | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| 2024 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 2 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Trending Position
This third outing for our now qualified doctors has largely lost it's sting. Though many of the original cast have remained, there is far too much dialogue, way too many characters and the original stalwarts - Dirk Bogarde ("Sparrow"); James Robertson Justice ("Sir Lancelot") and Muriel Pavlow ("Joy ... ") just don't feature enough as the story offers us some ever increasingly ridiculous scenarios. We even have an elephant! It's too long too, perhaps it could be tightened up by fifteen or twenty minutes, and the wordy chatter could really do with similar treatment too. It's fine, but the joke is really wearing thin and the frequently rather crass humour is now stretched past the point where laughs can easily be had.