Product Details

• Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Kay Kendall
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Jef Films Inc.
• VHS Release Date: August 25, 1998
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305112207
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,454 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The prescription for fun, December 2, 2002

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Patricia R. Andersen "redheaded booklover" (MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Doctor in the House [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a funny movie about the trials and tribulations of med students, struggling thru the British med school of the 50s.
It's quite a culture shock to see how much has changed since the 50s (does anyone ever see the nurses in full uniform, complete with cap in hospitals anymore?). As opposed to recent medical shows, you won't learn much about medicine from this video but you will have lots of laughs.
So take this prescription and pop it in your vcr and enjoy - cheaper than your health insurance payments;)

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The TV series is funnier, August 23, 2006

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wvmcl "wvmcl" (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Doctor Movie Collection [Region 2] (DVD)

This popular series of comic novels was filmed twice: as a series of feature films in the early 1950s and as a British sitcom 1969-77. Having seen parts of both, I prefer the TV series (although the films are probably more faithful to the books). This is partially because more was permitted in the way of sex and scatology by the time the TV series was made. But I also think the TV show was better cast. Dirk Bogarde struck me as an odd choice for the lead role of the naive young medical student; comedy isn't really Bogarde's forte.

The very funny TV series doesn't seem to have been released on DVD, but hopefully it will be at some point. The episodes are best watched in order since they tell something of a continuing story, so DVD is the perfect medium for them.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Charming British comedy, March 30, 2010

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magellan (Santa Clara, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Doctor Movie Collection [Region 2] (DVD)

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.