Doctor in the House (film)

Doctor in the House
Original British cinema poster
Directed byRalph Thomas
Screenplay by
Based onDoctor in the House
by Richard Gordon
Produced byBetty E. Box
Starring
CinematographyErnest Steward
Edited byGerald Thomas
Music byBruce Montgomery
Production
company
Group Film Productions
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
Release date
  • 23 March 1954 (1954-03-23)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
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.

  1. ^ Brian McFarlane, An Autobiography of British Cinema Metheun 1997 p 87
  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
  4. ^ "Doctor in the House". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 6 February 2024.