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‘Laughs a Minute on the High Seas!’ Alas, Doctor in Trouble is right. Leslie Phillips is back as Dr Tony Burke, who is in love with Ophelia O’Brien (Angela Scoular), who promptly leaves for a […]
‘TAKE A DEEP BREATH…then laugh your head off at the comedy where the girls are medically chaste’ The rather less charismatic or popular Michael Craig takes over in 1960 from the much-missed series star Dirk […]
The sixth Doctor film from 1966 has some very rough edges, and plays without series star Dirk Bogarde but with Leslie Phillips as the main star instead, which is not the same thing at all. […]
Director Frank Launder and producer Sidney Gilliat’s 1954 British comedy classic about the misadventures of cartoonist creator Ronald Searle’s grotty schoolgirls at England’s famously appalling St Trinian’s School for Young Ladies is the original and […]
Ralph Thomas’s 1954 British comedy smash Doctor in the House is the now venerable first film of Richard Gordon’s stories of the medical students of St Swithin’s Hospital in London. It was Britain’s most popular […]
Director Ralph Thomas’s 1955 British comedy is the welcome second Doctor adventure, more farcical than the first one, Doctor in the House (1954). Dirk Bogarde returns as Dr Simon Sparrow, this time leaving St Swithin’s […]
A marvellous cast is assembled for director Gillies MacKinnon’s treasurable, heart-warming 2000 made-for-TV comedy drama, starring Judi Dench, Cleo Laine, Ian Holm, Joan Sims, June Whitfield, Billie Whitelaw, Olympia Dukakis and Leslie Caron. It is […]