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Writers:
Richard Gordon (novel)
Nicholas Phipps (screenplay)
Release Date:
7 November 1960 (Denmark) more
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Plot:
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping... more | add synopsis
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A funny and under-rated British comedy more (7 total)

Cast

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Michael Craig ... Dr. Richard Hare
James Robertson Justice ... Sir Lancelot Spratt
Virginia Maskell ... Dr Nicola Barrington
Carole Lesley ... Kitten Strudwick
Leslie Phillips ... Dr. Tony Burke
Reginald Beckwith ... Wildewinde
Joan Sims ... Dawn
Liz Fraser ... Leonora
Nicholas Phipps ... Dr. Clive Cardew
Ambrosine Phillpotts ... Lady Spratt
Irene Handl ... Professor MacRitchie
Fenella Fielding ... Mrs. Tadwich
Nicholas Parsons ... Dr. Roger Hinxman
Moira Redmond ... Sally Nightingale

Ronnie Stevens ... Harold Green
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Runtime:
USA:93 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
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Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) (1987)

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The lead characters in the film are named Burke and Hare. These were the names of two notorious grave-robbers and body-snatchers in Edinburgh in the 1800s. more
Movie Connections:
Follows Doctor in the House (1954) more
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A funny and under-rated British comedy, 11 October 2004
Author: Stephen Bailey (diana@bailey6770.fsnet.co.uk) from Lincoln England

More medical antics in the classic "doctor" series. What plot there is concerns 2 young doctors (Burke & Hare) attempting to drag a quaint old medical practice into the 20th century. Doctor In Love does lose something without Dirk Bogarde, but the wonderful James Robertson Justice "I shall do nothing of the kind!" makes up for it. There were excellent small roles for Joan Sims as a stripper and John le meseruir (I bet I've spelled that wrong?) as an officious doctor who dares to tangle with "Sir Lancelot". The scene where Robertson Justice accidentally finds himself in a strip club and then breaks through into the medical conference next door accompanied by strippers and a gorilla is hilarious. It's a sad coincidence that Virginia Maskell (the new young doctor) and Carole Lesley (Dr Burke's girlfriend) both ended their own lives a few years later. They were both beautiful. Doctor In Love isn't the best in the series (Michael Craig is NO Bogarde) but it's certainly worth watching and made me laugh quite a lot.

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