Doctor at Sea

Doctor at Sea - 1955 | 93 mins | Comedy | Colour

The Production Team

Director: Ralph Thomas.
Producer: Betty E. Box.
Script: Jack Davies and Nicholas Phipps. (from the novel by Richard Gordon)
Cinematography: Ernest Steward.
Editing: Frederick Wilson.
Art Direction: Carmen Dillon.
Costume Design: Joan Ellacott.
Makeup Department: Geoffrey Rodway.
Sound Department: Eric Boyd-Perkins, Roger Cherrill, Gordon K. McCallum and John W. Mitchell.
Original Music: Bruce Montgomery.

The Cast

Dirk Bogarde - Dr. Simon Sparrow
Brigitte Bardot - Helene Colbert
James Robertson Justice - Captain Hogg
Maurice Denham - Easter
Brenda de Banzie - Muriel
Michael Medwin - Trail
Raymond Huntley - Captain Beamish

Plot Synopsis

The second of Rank's popular Doctor series sees youthful doctor Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) keen to escape the boredom of medical practice ashore and the threat of matrimony. Sparrow signs up as a medical officer onboard the cargo ship SS Lotus, pleased to be free of any female distractions. However, Sparrow soon falls foul of the ship’s skipper, fearsome captain Hogg (James Robertson-Justice) and worse still, lands in jail after a drunken celebration on arrival in South America. Two new passengers, Muriel (Brenda de Banzie), the daughter of the shipping-line owner, and Helene (Brigitte Bardot), a beautiful French singer, come aboard to pursue the Captain and Simon romantically. To impress a rival captain and the lines owner Captain Hogg demands a dance amid further misadventures as the ship sets sail.