ComedyRomance

Doctor at Large

- All the BARE FACTS and FIGURES That Add Up to a Young Medic's Love Life!

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 : 1957-03-26

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : The Rank Organisation

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Dr Simon Sparrow

Original Name : Dirk Bogarde

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dr Joy Gibson

Original Name : Muriel Pavlow

Gender : Female

Character Name : Dr Tony Benskin

Original Name : Donald Sinden

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sir Lancelot Spratt

Original Name : James Robertson Justice

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse Nan McPherson

Original Name : Shirley Eaton

Gender : Female

Character Name : Dr. Charles Bingham

Original Name : Michael Medwin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dr. Erasmus Potter-Shine

Original Name : Derek Farr

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dr. Hatchett

Original Name : Lionel Jeffries

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lady Hawkins

Original Name : Athene Seyler

Gender : Female

Character Name : Padre

Original Name : Noel Purcell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pascoe

Original Name : George Coulouris

Gender : Male

Character Name : Emerald

Original Name : Anne Heywood

Gender : Female

Character Name : Kitty

Original Name : Barbara Murray

Gender : Female

Character Name : Smith

Original Name : Mervyn Johns

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Jasmine Hatchett

Original Name : Dilys Laye

Gender : Female

Character Name : George

Original Name : Terence Longdon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Dalton

Original Name : Maureen Pryor

Gender : Female

Character Name : Examiner

Original Name : Ernest Thesiger

Gender : Male

Character Name : Examiner

Original Name : Geoffrey Keen

Gender : Male

Character Name : Maharajah of Rhanda

Original Name : Martin Benson

Gender : Male

Character Name : O'Malley

Original Name : John Chandos

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wilkins

Original Name : Edward Chapman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Digby

Original Name : Judith Furse

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mrs. Wilkins

Original Name : Gladys Henson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Charles Hopcroft

Original Name : Ernest Jay

Gender : Male

Character Name : Porter

Original Name : Harry Locke

Gender : Male

Character Name : Duke of Skye and Lewes

Original Name : A.E. Matthews

Gender : Male

Character Name : Major Porter

Original Name : Guy Middleton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lady in Outpatients Dept.

Original Name : Dandy Nichols

Gender : Female

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-04-04

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.