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Captain Hogg is ordered to take on two female passengers, Muriel Mallet (De Banzie), the daughter of the chairman of the shipping company, and her friend Hélène for the return trip. The unmarried Hogg is pursued by Muriel, who, having her father's ear, promises him almost certain promotion to the
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Romance blossoms between Sparrow and Hélène, but she declines his tentative marriage proposal. However, as they reach home port, Sparrow finds out that she has received a telegram offering her a job in
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To escape his employers' daughter, who has amorous designs on him, Dr. Simon Sparrow (Bogarde) signs on as medical officer on a cargo ship, the SS
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accused Rank studios of playing safe, writing that "Doctor at Sea does not rise to the same laugh-provoking heights as its predecessor". The
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wrote, "Often funnier than its predecessor, Doctor at Sea proved the viability of the "Doctor" series."
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and settles into life on board. After arriving in a Brazilian port (a local woman demands two hundred
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from the previous year. Once again, Richard Gordon participated in the screenwriting, together with
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also found it "short on truly comic incident, and the shipboard location is limiting", but
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The film was the third most popular movie at the British box office in 1955, after
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from Sparrow), he meets Hélène Colbert (Bardot), a young French woman who is a
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from the first film, but this time playing different characters. This was
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played the lead character Dr Simon Sparrow. The cast also includes
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Thomas claimed in 1956 that it made half a million pounds profit.
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of films, with Bogarde featuring in the first three.
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Index


quad film poster
Ralph Thomas
Nicholas Phipps
Richard Gordon
Jack Davies
Doctor at Sea
Richard Gordon
Betty E. Box
Dirk Bogarde
Brigitte Bardot
James Robertson Justice
Brenda De Banzie
Joan Sims
Ernest Steward
Frederick Wilson
Bruce Montgomery
Rank Film Distributors
comedy film
Ralph Thomas
Betty E. Box
Richard Gordon
novel of the same name
Doctor
Doctor in the House
Nicholas Phipps
Jack Davies
Dirk Bogarde
James Robertson Justice
Joan Sims

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