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5.7 1h 44m

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).

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Top Cast

  • Dirk Bogarde

    Dirk Bogarde

    Dr. Simon Sparrow

  • Muriel Pavlow

    Muriel Pavlow

    Joy Gibson

  • Donald Sinden

    Donald Sinden

    Dr. Tony Benskin

  • James Robertson Justice

    James Robertson Justice

    Sir Lancelot Spratt

  • Shirley Eaton

    Shirley Eaton

    Nurse Nan MacPherson

  • Derek Farr

    Derek Farr

    Dr. Erasmus Potter-Shine

  • Michael Medwin

    Michael Medwin

    Dr. Charlie Bingham

  • Martin Benson

    Martin Benson

    Maharajah of Branda

  • John Chandos

    John Chandos

    O'Malley

Overview

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).

Rating

5.7 / 10
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    CinemaSerf
    5 Apr 4, 2022

    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.

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