作品1954
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Doctor in the House
1954年由拉爾夫·托馬斯執導的英國喜劇電影
作品1954
Doctor in the House
1954年由拉爾夫·托馬斯執導的英國喜劇電影
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Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston and James Robertson Justice. It was produced by Betty Box. The screenplay, by Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon and Ronald Wilkinson, is based on the 1952 novel Doctor in the House by Gordon, and follows a group of students through medical school.
It was the most popular box office film of 1954 in Great Britain. Its success spawned six sequels, and also television, radio, and audio podcast series titled Doctor in the House.
It made Dirk Bogarde one of the biggest British stars of the 1950s. James Robertson Justice appeared as the irascible chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt, a role he would repeat in many of the sequels.
The story follows the fortunes of Simon Sparrow starting as a new medical student at the fictional St Swithin's Hospital in London. His five years of student life, involving drinking, dating women, and falling foul of the rigid hospital authorities, provide many humorous incidents.
When he has to leave his first choice of lodgings to get away from his landlady's amorous daughter, he ends up with three amiable but less-than-shining fellow students as flatmates, Richard Grimsdyke, Tony Benskin and Taffy Evans. Towering over them all is the short-tempered, demanding chief surgeon, Sir Lancelot Spratt, who strikes terror into everyone.
Producer Betty Box picked up a copy of the book at Crewe during a long rail journey and saw its possibility as a film. The film rights had been optioned to Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) but they decided not to make the movie, and Box bought the rights.
She and Ralph Thomas had a job convincing the Rank Organisation to make the movie because of the lack of a central story. But Box said "I think I know how to do it. I take my four students through three or four years of medical training and make that the story."
Filming started in September 1953.
"Not one of them ever did anything because they wanted to make it funny", Thomas added. "They played it within a very strict, tight limit of believability. Dirk was able to do that, he got away with it and it stopped him from being just another bright, good looking leading man and made him a star."
St Swithin's Hospital is represented by the front of University College London, and is thought to be based upon Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, the medical school attached to St Bartholomew's Hospital, where Richard Gordon was a student.
Bogarde recalled " We had two doctors always on the set; if any of us had to perform an operation or some medical procedure, there was always someone there to explain exactly how to do it. | wouldn’t put a stethoscope to a body until I knew exactly how it was done and what I would have said. It was very strictly cont
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Simon's friends cajole him into a series of disastrous dates, first with a placidly uninterested "Rigor Mortis", then with Isobel—a woman with very expensive tastes—and finally with Joy, a nurse at St Swithin's. After a rocky start, he finds he likes Joy a great deal. Richard is living on a small but adequate annuity that ends once he graduates, so he deliberately fails his exams every year. However, he is given an ultimatum by his fiancée Stella: graduate or she will leave him. He buckles down.
The climax of the film is a rugby match with a rival medical school during Simon's fifth and final year. After St Swithin's wins, the other side tries to steal the school mascot, a stuffed gorilla, resulting in a riot and car chase through the streets of London. Simon and his friends are almost expelled for their part in this by the humourless Dean of St Swithin's. When Simon helps Joy sneak into the nurses' residence after curfew, he accidentally falls through a skylight. This second incident gets him expelled, even though he is a short time away from completing his finals. Sir Lancelot, however, has fond memories of his own student days, particularly of the Dean's own youthful indiscretion (persuading a nurse to re-enact Lady Godiva's ride). His discreet blackmail gets Simon reinstated. In the end, Richard fails (as does Tony), but Stella decides to enrol at St Swithin's herself so there will be at least one doctor in the family. Simon and Taffy graduate.
She later said she was "very lucky" to get Nicholas Phipps to write the script. "There wasn't a great deal of the book in it, except for the characters", she said.
"I'd never made comedies before but I reckoned I wanted to make it both real and funny and so I wouldn't deal with comedians."
Rank executives thought that people would not be interested in a film about medicine, and that Bogarde, who up to then had played spivs and Second World War heroes, could not play light comedy. As a result, the filmmakers got a low budget and were only allowed to use available Rank contract artists.
"They didn't really have any funny actors to work with; they were all straight actors. Dirk Bogarde... had never played a funny line in his life", said Thomas.
Thomas said "we decided we didn’t want to use actors who were professional funny men. We would cast the best actors we could get, actors we'd have cast if it was going to be a straight dramatic story about medicine. So we cast Dirk, Kenneth More, Kay Kendall, people who were bright, ‘hot’ and good."
Borgarde claimed he "changed my character’s name to Simon Sparrow because I thought it was funnier, and so it stayed. The one stipulation I made was that I had to be a real doctor; I would do things that were funny, but would never instigate anything funny."
Kenneth More had just made Genevieve (1953) when he signed to appear in the cast, but Genevieve had not been released yet. Accordingly, his fee was only £3,500. Robert Morley was approached to play the surgeon but his agent insisted on a fee of £15,000 so they cast James Robertson Justice instead at a fee of £1,500.
Donald Sinden was under contract to Rank.