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6.0/10   254 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Richard Gordon (novel)
Nicholas Phipps (screenplay)
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Release Date:
29 April 1957 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Tagline:
X-citingly Fresh! X-tremely Funny! X-travagantly Frank! X-actly What the Doctor Ordered! more
Plot:
Dr. Sparrow graduates and sets out into the world. Hilarious internships with a miserly doctor and his young wife... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Reviews:
" Oh, alright, . . . . If you must be a doctor, . . do it quietly " more (7 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

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
Derek Farr ... Dr. Potter-Shine
Michael Medwin ... Dr. Charles Bingham
Martin Benson ... Maharajah of Rhanda
John Chandos ... O'Malley
Edward Chapman ... Wilkins
George Coulouris ... Pascoe
Judith Furse ... Mrs. Digby - Innkeeper
Gladys Henson ... Mrs. Wilkins
Anne Heywood ... Emerald
Ernest Jay ... Charles Hopcroft
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:98 min | UK:104 min
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Language:
Color:
Color (Eastman Color)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Finland:S | UK:U (passed with cuts) | Sweden:Btl

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Cameo: [Richard Gordon]The author of the original books (and of the screenplay here) is on screen hidden behind the anesthetist's mask in the "patient wakes up" scene. Gordon did the job in real life before turning to writing. more
Movie Connections:
Followed by Doctor in Trouble (1970) more

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" Oh, alright, . . . . If you must be a doctor, . . do it quietly ", 21 October 2009
5/10
Author: thinker1691 from USA

English medical comedy in the dark medium of a theater, is often subtle, urbane and sleigh of hand. For American audiences, we see British laughter in two ways, either loud and in your face, such as Monte Python's Flying Circus or tall abrupt and seriously stuffy as in this offering. This film " Doctor at Large " is the second installment and although much is expected, falls a bit flat. Despite having two of the finest English actors like Dirk Bogarde as Dr. Simon Sparrow and James Robertson Justice as Sir Lancelot Spratt, the movie, like the story is hampered with fractured scenes and little adhesion to comedy. One wonders if the characters are seeking sympathy for the script or for the jumbled set of patients which range from the very neurotic to the very eccentric. The movie strives for understanding, but despite its best efforts never achieves the nobility of the original. A great waste of serious talent. ***

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