Doctor in Distress (film)

Doctor in Distress is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Justice, and Samantha Eggar. Its the fifth of the seven films in the Doctor series. After a onefilm absence, it marked the final return to the role of Simon Sparrow by Dirk Bogarde, and also the return although in a different role of Donald Houston. The film uses some of the characters in Richard Gordons Doctor novels, but isnt based on any of the novels.

Meanwhile, Spratt injures his back in a fall. Placed under the care of physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he is initially hostile, but soon succumbs to her charms. He turns to his friend Simon for advice. Simon sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight. Spratt has Iris followed, and, when his private investigator turns up at Hampden Cross as a patient, follows her himself terrorising a nervous train passenger in the process. He proposes to her, but is eventually rejected in favour of another of her patients, retired army Major Tommy French.Delia returns in England, having somehow acquired an expensive Italian car a Maserati Sebring and expensive clothes, though she did not land a part in the film. It is implied that she and Simon get together again. ........

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