More a series of vignettes than a collection of sketches, the third of the Doctor films works surprisingly well, the humour much gentler than any of the others as befits Dirk Bogarde's increasing maturity.
Of the original four student doctors in the original only he and Donald Sinden remain. The action involve a surprisingly large number of substantial female characters, with Muriel Pavlow as Bogarde's spirited Girl Friday, Shirley Eaton has blossomed from a landlady's daughter to a nurse and Athene Seyler plays a remarkably broadminded patron of Sinden.
Sir Lancelot hadn't yet take over the series as he eventually did, but has a characteristic scene where he discusses the cooking of spaghetti in the middle of performing surgery.
In a nod to the later TV series we even get Michael Medwin as the annoying prig Bingham later played by Richard O'Sullivan (whose first scene actually includes him using the word "herpes").
Of the original four student doctors in the original only he and Donald Sinden remain. The action involve a surprisingly large number of substantial female characters, with Muriel Pavlow as Bogarde's spirited Girl Friday, Shirley Eaton has blossomed from a landlady's daughter to a nurse and Athene Seyler plays a remarkably broadminded patron of Sinden.
Sir Lancelot hadn't yet take over the series as he eventually did, but has a characteristic scene where he discusses the cooking of spaghetti in the middle of performing surgery.
In a nod to the later TV series we even get Michael Medwin as the annoying prig Bingham later played by Richard O'Sullivan (whose first scene actually includes him using the word "herpes").