Doctor at Large

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-04-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

98 min

IMDB Ratings:

(530 Reviews)

Director:

Ralph Thomas

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Dirk Bogarde Muriel Pavlow Donald Sinden James Robertson Justice

Writer:

Richard Gordon (novel)

Nicholas Phipps (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Dr. Sparrow graduates and sets out into the world. Hilarious internships with a miserly doctor and his young wife, a country doctor paid in kind not cash, and a quack specializing in rich neurotic women. He applies for a surgery position at a hospital, insults the senior surgeon, then rescues one of the hospital's governors and finally gets his place on the staff.

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