Doctor in Clover

Doctor in Clover - 1966 | 97mins | Comedy | Colour

The Production Team

Director: Ralph Thomas.
Producer: Betty E. Box.
Script: Jack Davies. (from the novel by Richard Gordon)
Cinematography: Ernest Steward.
Editing: Alfred Roome.
Art Direction: Alex Vetchinsky.
Makeup Department: Stella Rivers and Geoffrey Rodway.
Costume Department: Yvonne Caffin.
Sound: Gordon K. McCallum, Dudley Messenger and Arthur Ridout.
Original Music: John Scott.

The Cast

Leslie Phillips - Dr. Gaston Grimsdyke
James Robertson Justice - Sir Lancelot Spratt
Shirley Ann Field - Nurse Bancroft
John Fraser - Dr. Miles Grimsdyke
Joan Sims - Matron
Arthur Haynes - Wendover
Fenella Fielding - Tatiana Rubikov
Jeremy Lloyd - Lambert Symington
Noel Purcell - O'Malley

Plot Synopsis

The early instalments of the Doctor series were pretty healthy comedies, but by this sixth visit they are fading fast.

More comical situations at Saint Swithins Hospital, Leslie Phillips is on call in place as Dr Gaston Grimsdyke, who is more interested in the nurses than the patients. Grimsdyke loses his job as medical officer at a women's prison, so he enrols in a refresher course with his old medical tutor Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson Justice) – who is determined to make a successful physician out of him. There are some complications involving a rejuvenation serum, which is accidentally injected into the irascible Sir Lancelot, causing him to wreak havoc at a party.