Description
The Complete Doctor Collection
DVD Box Set
WITH OPTIONAL SUBTITLES
Comedy. 7 discs. Colour. Running time: 647 mins approx. Year: 1955-1970.
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Kenneth More, Joan Sims, Donald Sinden, Kay Kendall, James Robertson Justice, Brigitte Bardot, Leslie Phillips and Michael Craig.
Based on Richard Gordon’s best selling novels, this collection of hilarious classic British comedies stars a host of screen legends.
Doctor in the House (1954)
Director: Ralph Thomas.
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Kay Kendall, Donald Houston, Joan Hickson, Joan Sims, James Robertson Justice, Shirley Eaton, Richard Wattis and many more.
The adventures of Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde), a new medical student at St Swithin’s Hospital in London. His student life involved drinking, dating women and falling foul of the hospital authorities, resulting in many hilarious incidents. The film made Dirk Bogarde one of the biggest British stars of the 1950s and was the most popular box office film of 1954 in Great Britain, spawning six sequels.
Doctor at Sea (1955)
Director: Ralph Thomas.
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot, Brenda De Banzie, James Robertson Justice, Joan Sims & Michael Medwin.
A young doctor signs up to be a ship’s doctor. The cargo boat he joins is skippered by a formidable captain and one of the two women on board is a beautiful French girl, who is more than impressed with his bedside manner. Brigitte Bardot’s first English-speaking film.
Doctor at Large (1957)
Director: Ralph Thomas.
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice, Shirley Eaton, Derek Farr,
Michael Medwin, Lionel Jeffries and Barbara Murray.
Dr. Simon Sparrow graduates and fills internships with a miserly doctor and his young wife, a country doctor paid in kind, and a quack specialising in rich neurotic women.
Doctor in Love (1960)
Director: Ralph Thomas. Cast: James Robertson Justice, Michael Craig, Leslie Phillips, Carole Lesley, Joan Sims, Liz Fraser, Irene Handl, Nicholas Parsons and John Le Mesurier.
Dr Richard Hare, a recently graduated medical intern is left in charge when his senior partner visits California.
Doctor in Distress (1963)
Director: Ralph Thomas. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Justice, Samantha Eggar, Barbara Murray, Mylène Demongeot, Donald Houston, Leo McKern and Dennis Price.
Dr. Simon Sparrow’s love life improves when lovely Delia Mallory is brought into casualty with a sprained ankle.
Doctor in Clover (1966)
Director: Ralph Thomas. Cast: Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice, Shirley Anne Field, John Fraser and Joan Sims.
Gaston Grimsdyke attends a medical school course run by Sir Lancelot Spratt. Slapstick and romance ensue.
Doctor in Trouble (1970)
Director: Ralph Thomas. Cast: Leslie Phillips, Harry Secombe, Robert Morley.
James Robertson Justice, Simon Dee & Irene Handl. Doctor Burke is accidentally trapped on a cruise ship
on a round the world trip.
