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    Dentist in the Chair (1960)

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    Based on a book by Matthew Finch and set in a dental training college, this unremarkable little comedy will set your teeth on edge.

    David Cookson (Bob Monkhouse) is not a student who devotes himself wholeheartedly to the study of dentistry. He keeps coming a cropper with the Dean (Eric Barker) and their relationship becomes more uneasy when David takes a liking to new student Peggy (Peggy Cummins), who turns out to be the Dean’s niece.

    David and fellow student Brian (Ronnie Stevens) become the victims of Sam Field (Kenneth Connor), a small-time thief who gatecrashes the college posing as a salesman to sell dental equipment he has stolen (he stole it by mistake, but that’s another story).

    Sam presents the loot to David as bankrupt stock, and the penniless David and Brian decide to auction it amongst their colleagues, splitting the takings with Sam.  They do a brisk business but before they have time to count their profit, they realise that Sam is a thief and that they have become accessories to his crime.

    With Peggy’s help, David and Brian feverishly try to buy back the stolen equipment, but they don’t find the going easy.

    Their lives are further harassed as Sam masquerades as a student at the college to conceal his identity from the police investigating the theft. The consequences are disastrous.

    It’s a far cry from the Doctor films on which it’s obviously modelled, but it’s a sight better than its awful sequel, Dentist on the Job (1961).

    David Cookson
    Bob Monkhouse
    Peggy Travers
    Peggy Cummins
    Sam Field
    Kenneth Connor
    The Dean
    Eric Barker
    Brian Dexter
    Ronnie Stevens
    Michaels
    Vincent Ball
    Ethel
    Eleanor Summerfield
    Mr Watling
    Reginald Beckwith
    Inspector Richardson
    Stuart Saunders
    Dentist
    Ian Wallace
    Miss Brent
    Peggy Simpson
    Lucy
    Jean St Clair

    Director
    Don Chaffey

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