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    Doctor at Large (1957)

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    The third in the Doctor series of films sees Dr Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) back at St Swithin’s where he loses out to the self-important Dr Bingham (Michael Medwin) for a job as senior house surgeon.

    Feeling that he has no future as a surgeon, he takes a general practice job in an industrial town with the mean-spirited Dr Hatchet (Lionel Jefferies) where he finds he has to do most of the work (including night calls) whilst avoiding the advances of his partner’s flirty young blonde wife, Jasmine (Dilys Laye).

    He then takes a locum job with Dr Potter-Shine (Derek Farr) at a Harley Street practice where most of the patients are dotty aristocrats and neurotic society women. Leaving after three months, he moves to a rural practice where patients pay not in cash but in kind (ranging from home-grown raspberries to poached salmon).

    Meanwhile, Tony Benskin (Donald Sinden) fails his finals – again – and travels to Ireland where he buys a very dubious medical degree. This leads to a post as private physician to a rich elderly aristocratic lady in Wiltshire.

    Sparrow and Benskin take a short holiday in France, where they save Dr Hopcroft (Ernest Jay), a governor at St Swithin’s, from an embarrassing incident. In return, he arranges for Sparrow and Benskin to return to St Swithin’s.

    Sparrow commences advanced surgical training with Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson Justice), whilst Benskin becomes the personal physician to a rich Maharajah (Martin Benson).

    Dr Simon Sparrow
    Dirk Bogarde
    Dr Joy Gibson
    Muriel Pavlow
    Dr Tony Benskin
    Donald Sinden
    Sir Lancelot Spratt
    James Robertson Justice
    Nurse Nan McPherson
    Shirley Eaton
    Dr Potter-Shine
    Derek Farr
    Dr Charles Bingham
    Michael Medwin
    Maharajah of Rhanda
    Martin Benson
    O’Malley
    John Chandos
    Wilkins
    Edward Chapman
    Pascoe
    George Coulouris
    Mrs Digby
    Judith Furse
    Mrs Wilkins
    Gladys Henson
    Emerald
    Anne Heywood
    Charles Hopcroft
    Ernest Jay
    Dr Hatchet
    Lionel Jeffries
    Smith
    Mervyn Johns
    Mrs Jasmine Hatchet
    Dilys Laye
    Duke of Skye and Lewes
    A.E. Matthews
    Major Porter
    Guy Middleton
    Kitty
    Barbara Murray
    Mr Wayland
    Nicholas Phipps
    Sam the poacher 
    Wensley Pithey
    Mrs Dalton
    Maureen Pryor
    Dr Farquarson
    George Relph
    Lady Hawkins
    Athene Seyler
    Colonel Graves
    Michael Trubshawe

    Director
    Ralph Thomas

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