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Doctor in Distress (1963)

Directed by Ralph Thomas

Overview

“Doctor in Distress” is the fifth of the seven films in the “Doctor” series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt,  Simon Sparrow’s old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can’t get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.

Length 102 minutes

Actors

Dirk Bogarde | James Robertson Justice | Samantha Eggar | Barbara Murray | Mylène Demongeot | Donald Houston | Dennis Price | Richard Briers | Fenella Fielding | Leo McKern | Reginald Beckwith | Amanda Barrie | Marianne Stone | Peter Butterworth | Frank Finlay | Ronnie Stevens | Ronnie Barker | Jill Adams | Bill Kerr | Paul Whitsun-Jones | Michael Flanders | Jessie Evans | Timothy Bateson | John Bluthal | Johnny Briggs | Denise Coffey | Ann Lynn | Rodney Cardiff | Madge Ryan | Margaret Boyd | Jeanette Landis | Michael Goldie | Joe Robinson | Derek Fowlds | Pauline Jameson | David Weston | Barbara Hicks | Ronald Lacey | Harry Landis