Leslie Phillips

James Robertson Justice

Shirley Anne Field

John Fraser

Joan Sims

Arthur Haynes

Fenella Fielding

Jeremy Lloyd

Noel Purcell

Robert Hutton

Eric Barker

Terry Scott

Norman Vaughan

Elizabeth Ercy

Alfie Bass

Jean Benedetti

Anne Cunningham

Suzan Farmer

Peter Gilmore

Nicky Henson

Robin Hunter

Barry Justice

Bill Kerr

Harry Fowler

Justine Lord

Roddy Maude-Roxby

Lionel Murton

Dandy Nichols

Anthony Sharp

Ronnie Stevens

Jack Arrow

Ann Barrass

Alexandra Bastedo

Norman Chappell

Hugh Elton

Mabel Etherington

Catherine Feller

Danny Green

Renee Heimer

John Junkin

Harold Kasket

Cheryl Kennedy

Aileen Lewis

Fred Machon

André Maranne

Mary Maxfield

Ronald Rich

Wendy Richard

Jack Smethurst

Esme Smythe

John Tatham

Reg Thomason

Ralph Thomas

Ernest Steward

Jack Davies

Betty E. Box

Richard Gordon

John Stephen

Alfred Roome

The Doctor Collection

Comedy

Doctor in Clover

The Rank Organisation

United Kingdom

English

An apple a day keeps the doctor away...

Doctor in the House was released in 1954 and promptly became the start of a franchise of Brit comedy films. The quality and standard of each film, a total of seven, varies and will always be a subject of debate among fans. Clover, the 6th offering, isn't particularly great, and minus series regular Dirk Bogarde, it is often painted as the runt of the litter. Yet there are some strengths worthy of time spent with the pic to save it from sequel damnation.

Leslie Phillips fronts up as the focal point, he's a randy doctor who as he attempts to go about his fanciful Lothario ways, becomes acutely aware of his advancing years, cue his attempts at looking young. James Robertson Justice is still on hand as the boisterous Sir Lancelot Spratt, while Joan Sims, Fenella Fielding, Arthur Haynes, Shirley Anne Field and John Fraser are filing in for some daft medical shenanigans.

It's a bit "Carry On" lite, at times feeling like it's trying to be more risqué than is possible. Yet Fielding and Haynes are super as strong personality patients, Phillips carries the movie with ease, while Justice cuts lose from the gruff persona - to see him have fun courtesy of a dubious serum plot line. Nobody's idea of a British classic, for sure, but fun enough with a G&T on a Sunday afternoon. 6/10

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Interestingly, this film is also known as "Carnaby M. D." without any of the characters actually bearing that name. What we do have, though, are the gently comedic hospital antics of "Gaston Grimsdike" (Leslie Philiips) as he attempts to woo nurse "Bancroft" (Shirley Anne Field) whilst simultaneously fixing up his imperious boss "Sir Lancelot Spratt" (James Robertson Justice) with the rather matronly Joan Sims. This film is too long, the jokes are predictable but amusing enough, and the scenarios recycle themselves once too often so after half an hour it is pretty indistinguishable from the other "Doctor" movies. That said, though, the story is still quite engaging in a light and fluffy, harmless, sort of fashion with the women frequently getting the better of the men folks. Probably never a film you would want to watch more than once, but emblematic of the humour that prevailed at the time and as a piece of cinema nostalgia, you could do much worse.

Doctor in Clover

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