{"id":25444,"date":"2012-04-23T08:54:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=25444"},"modified":"2020-12-19T12:31:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T19:31:52","slug":"doctor-in-the-house-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=25444","title":{"rendered":"Doctor in the House (1954)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Don&#8217;t forget: to be a successful surgeon you need the eyes of a hawk, the heart of a lion, and the hands of a lady.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Poster-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Poster-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Poster-85x128.jpg 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Poster.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA naive doctor-in-training (Dirk Bogarde) and his classmates (Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, and Donald Houston) navigate through the challenges of medical school and dating.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>College<\/li>\n<li>Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Dirk Bogarde Films<\/li>\n<li>Doctors and Nurses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;ll admit to having little patience for this enormously popular British comedy (based on a novel by former doctor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Gordon_%28English_author%29\">Richard Gordon<\/a>), which broke box-office records and spawned no less than six cinematic sequels and a television series. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s little more than an extended situation comedy involving a cadre of not-too-likeable young medical students who are much more interested in having fun than gaining a solid footing in their future profession; Bogarde is nominally the sympathetic protagonist, but he doesn&#8217;t come across as much better (or more interesting) than his friends. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Bogarde2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Bogarde2-1024x793.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"496\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-58480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Bogarde2-1024x793.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Bogarde2-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Bogarde2-128x99.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Bogarde2-768x595.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Bogarde2-349x270.png 349w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Bogarde2.png 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The humor is consistently lowbrow, and the episodic screenplay does little to hold our attention. The film&#8217;s only minor redeeming point is its willingness to show a diverse crowd of medical students on campus (including women and people of color):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Students2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Students2-1024x790.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"494\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-58481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Students2-1024x790.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Students2-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Students2-128x99.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Students2-768x592.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Students2-350x270.png 350w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Doctor-in-the-House-Students2.png 1339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, none of the latter are given substantial roles, and the former are reduced to either sex objects or shrews. Call me a grump, but this one&#8217;s simply icky; I couldn&#8217;t wait for it to be over. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><br \/>\nNot much at all. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; feel free to skip this clunker. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0046921\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/reviews\/8734\/doctor-in-the-house\/\">DVD Talk Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/73277\/doctor-in-the-house#articles-reviews?articleId=245626\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/doctor-in-the-house\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t forget: to be a successful surgeon you need the eyes of a hawk, the heart of a lion, and the hands of a lady.&#8221; Synopsis: A naive doctor-in-training (Dirk Bogarde) and his classmates (Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, and Donald Houston) navigate through the challenges of medical school and dating. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: College Comedy Dirk Bogarde Films Doctors and Nurses Review: I&#8217;ll admit to having little patience for this enormously popular British comedy (based on a novel&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=25444\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25444"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58482,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25444\/revisions\/58482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}