SINOPSIS
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
- Richard GordonAnaethetist
- Nicholas PhippsMagistrate
- Dirk BogardeSimon Sparrow
- Muriel PavlowNurse Joy Gibson
- Kenneth MoreRichard Grimsdyke
- Donald SindenTony Benskin
- Kay KendallIsobel Minster
- James Robertson JusticeSir Lancelot Spratt
- Donald HoustonTaffy Evans
- Suzanne CloutierStella
- George CoulourisBriggs
- Jean Taylor SmithSister Virtue
- Geoffrey KeenDean
- Martin BoddeyDemonstrator at pedal machine
- Joan SimsRigor Mortis
- Gudrun UreMay
- Harry LockeJessup
- Cyril ChamberlainPoliceman
- Ernest ClarkDr. Parrish
- Maureen PryorMrs. Cooper
- George BensonLecturer on drains
- Shirley EatonMillicent 'Milly' Groaker
- Eliot MakehamElderly Examiner
- Joan HicksonMrs Groaker
- Brian OultonMedical equipment salesman