The Complete Doctor Movie Collection [Region 2]
by Ralph Thomas
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Actor: Dirk Bogarde, Donald Sinden, Kay Kendall, Kenneth More, Muriel PavlowDirector: Ralph Thomas
Writer: Nicholas Phipps
Cinematographer: Ernest Steward
Editor: Gerald Thomas
Producer: Betty E. Box
Producer: Earl St. John
Writer: Richard Gordon
DVD: Region Code 2
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: PAL
Running Time: 92 minutes
Movie Reviews of The Complete Doctor Movie Collection [Region 2]
Movie Review: Charming British comedy
Summary: 4 Stars
Please note that this review is about the original movie and not the TV collection, which is what this boxed set appears to be. I couldn't review the movie otherwise since it doesn't seem to be available on Amazon.
This is an engaging, funny, and unpretentious movie about the trials and tribulations of a group of student doctors. The dialog is superb, and the sight gags still hold up despite this now being a 65 year old movie. If the movie is to be believed, student doctors in the U.K. come in for even more abuse than young American doctors, as everyone from the patients to the nurses to the professors try to make their internship as harrowing as they possibly can. The crusty medical professor is always calling one of them an idiot for not knowing some obscure fact, and even the patients taunt them and try to trip them up.
Of course romance can't be left out of the picture, either, and the young nurses and doctors proceed to engage in a somewhat wary dance--the nurses not knowing which of the handsome, young doctors is going to pass his exams, complete his internship, and go on to a successful and profitable practice. In one scene, one of the doctors calls the nurse he's trying to put the make on "...a succulent starched uniform with a soft center." LOL. In another scene, Dirk Bogarde inadvertently ends up in a pricey restaurant with his date and realizes that he can barely afford the price of the drinks, let alone the meal, and has to invent an excuse to get back to the hospital to save face, which backfires on him (but which I'll leave for the movie so as not to provide any spoilers).
I noted that the print of this movie still seemed in very good condition, not grainy or blotchy and the colors were still bright. Perhaps 65 years isn't long enough for the films from this age (not sure which process was being used back then since I'm not expert in this area) to deteriorate as with the earlier nitro-cellulose or guncotton derived panchromatic film stock from the teens and 20s that are now in such poor condition.
Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pawlow, Kenneth More, and Sir Lancelot Spratt are all excellent in their roles. Overall, this is a charming, funny, and light-hearted comedy from another age.
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