Doctor at Sea
1955 Comedy
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Summary
Newly graduated from medical school, Dr Simon Sparrow joins a medical practice but finds
himself the victim of the amorous intentions of his partner’s daughter. His solution
is to runaway to sea - to become a ship’s doctor on a cargo ship, where his patients include
the irascible Captain Hogg and a crew of sex-starved mariners. At the next
port of call, Sparrow and his new friends go ashore and soon end up in jail. When
the ship sets off once more, it has two extra passengers: Muriel, the daughter of the
shipping line, and her singer friend, Hélène. Sparrow’s professional
duties are once more confounded by his attraction for the fair sex...
Review
Doctor at Sea was the second in the Rank Organisation’s popular series of film
adaptations of the autobiographical novels by Richard Gordon. Although somewhat
less memorable than the first (Doctor in the House), the film has its charms and
some great comic moments. Dirk Bogarde once again plays the adorable Dr Sparrow
(his most popular screen persona) whilst the magnificent James Robertson Justice appears
to taunt him, not as Sir Lancelot Spratt, but as the even more lugubrious Captain Hogg.
The film also stars French beauty Brigitte Bardot in one of her earliest film roles (several
years before she acquired a reputation as a sex goddess), although she does appear slightly
out of place in this quintessentially English comedy.
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