| Doctor in the House | |
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| Directed by | Ralph Thomas |
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| Based on | Doctor in the House by Richard Gordon |
| Produced by | Betty E. Box |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Ernest Steward |
| Edited by | Gerald Thomas |
| Music by | Bruce Montgomery |
Production company | Group Film Productions |
| Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £97,000,[1] £109,000,[2] or £120,000[3] |
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 Doctor in the House 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 television and radio series titled 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.