Doctor in Distress (film)
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Release date 20 July 1963 (1963-07-20) (UK)7 July 1964 (1964-07-07) (USA) Writer Nicholas Phipps (screenplay), Ronald Scott Thorn (screenplay), Richard Gordon (by arrangement with: author of the Doctor books) Tagline It's that incurable 'DOCTOR' team in their NEWEST and SAUCIEST! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Doctor in Distress is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Justice, and Samantha Eggar. It's the fifth of the seven films in the Doctor series. After a one-film absence, it marked the final return to the role of Simon Sparrow by Dirk Bogarde, and also the return (although in a different role) of Donald Houston. The film uses some of the characters in Richard Gordon's Doctor novels, but is not based on any of the novels.
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Plot
Simon Sparrow, now a senior doctor at Hampden Cross Hospital, falls in love with Delia, a model and aspiring actress. They eventually move in together, but then she goes to Italy to try out for a film.
Meanwhile, Spratt injures his back in a fall. Placed under the care of physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he is initially hostile, but soon succumbs to her charms. He turns to his friend Simon for advice. Simon sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight. Spratt has Iris followed, and, when his private investigator turns up at Hampden Cross as a patient, follows her himself (terrorising a nervous train passenger in the process). He proposes to her, but is eventually rejected in favour of another of her patients, retired army Major Tommy French.
Delia returns in England, having somehow acquired an expensive Italian car (a Maserati Sebring) and expensive clothes, though she did not land a part in the film. It is implied that she and Simon get together again.
Reception
The film was one of the ten most popular movies at the British box office in 1963.
References
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