Doctor in the House (film)

Doctor in the House
Doctor in the House
	Original British cinema poster
Directed by	Ralph Thomas
Screenplay by	Richard Gordon; Nicholas Phipps; Ronald Wilkinson;
Based on	Doctor in the House; by Richard Gordon
Produced by	Betty E. Box
Starring	Dirk Bogarde; Muriel Pavlow; Kenneth More; Donald Sinden; Kay Kendall; James Robertson Justice; Donald Houston;
Cinematography	Ernest Steward
Edited by	Gerald Thomas
Music by	Bruce Montgomery
Production; company	Group Film Productions
Distributed by	General Film Distributors
Release date	23 March 1954;
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£97,000, £109,000, or £120,000

Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston and James Robertson Justice.^[4] It was produced by Betty Box. The screenplay, by Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon and Ronald Wilkinson, is based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Gordon, and follows a group of students through medical school.

It was the most popular box office film of 1954 in Great Britain. Its success spawned six sequels, and also a television and radio series entitled Doctor in the House.

It made Dirk Bogarde one of the biggest British stars of the 1950s. James Robertson Justice appeared as the irascible chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt, a role he would repeat in many of the sequels.

^ Brian McFarlane, An Autobiography of British Cinema Metheun 1997 p 87
^ Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-century Cinema by Wheeler W. Dixon, SIU Press, 2001 p110
^ Geoffrey Macnab, J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry, London, Routledge (1993) p. 224
^ "Doctor in the House". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 6 February 2024.

[brian-1] Brian McFarlane, An Autobiography of British Cinema Metheun 1997 p 87

[Collected_Interviews_p110-2] Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-century Cinema by Wheeler W. Dixon, SIU Press, 2001 p110

[3] Geoffrey Macnab, J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry, London, Routledge (1993) p. 224

[BFIsearch-4] "Doctor in the House". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 6 February 2024.

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