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Summary

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).

Cast

Dirk Bogarde

Dr Simon Sparrow

Muriel Pavlow

Dr Joy Gibson

Donald Sinden

Dr Tony Benskin

James Robertson Justice

Sir Lancelot Spratt

Shirley Eaton

Nurse Nan McPherson

Michael Medwin

Dr. Charles Bingham

Derek Farr

Dr. Erasmus Potter-Shine

Lionel Jeffries

Dr. Hatchett

Athene Seyler

Lady Hawkins

Noel Purcell

Padre

George Coulouris

Pascoe

Anne Heywood

Emerald

Barbara Murray

Kitty

Mervyn Johns

Smith

Dilys Laye

Mrs. Jasmine Hatchett

Terence Longdon

George

Maureen Pryor

Mrs. Dalton

Ernest Thesiger

Examiner

Geoffrey Keen

Examiner

Martin Benson

Maharajah of Rhanda

John Chandos

O'Malley

Edward Chapman

Wilkins

Judith Furse

Mrs. Digby

Gladys Henson

Mrs. Wilkins

Ernest Jay

Charles Hopcroft

Harry Locke

Porter

A.E. Matthews

Duke of Skye and Lewes

Guy Middleton

Major Porter

Dandy Nichols

Lady in Outpatients Dept.

Crew

Director

Ralph Thomas

Novel

Richard Gordon

Screenplay

Nicholas Phipps

Reviews

Geronimo1967

April 4, 2022

5

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.