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{{Infobox film
| name = Doctor at Sea
| image = Doctor at Sea orig UK poster.jpg
| border = yes
| caption = Original British 1955 [[Film poster#Film poster sizes|quad film poster]]
| director = [[Ralph Thomas]]
| producer = [[Betty E. Box]]
| screenplay = [[Nicholas Phipps]] [[Richard Gordon (English author)|Richard Gordon]] [[Jack Davies (screenwriter)|Jack Davies]]
| based_on = {{based on|''[[Doctor at Sea (novel)|Doctor at Sea]]''|[[Richard Gordon (English author)|Richard Gordon]]}}
| starring = [[Dirk Bogarde]] [[Brigitte Bardot]] [[James Robertson Justice]] [[Brenda De Banzie]] [[Joan Sims]]
| music = [[Edmund Crispin|Bruce Montgomery]]
| cinematography = [[Ernest Steward]]
| editing = [[Frederick Wilson (film editor)|Frederick Wilson]]
| studio = Group Film Productions
| distributor = [[Rank Film Distributors]] {{small|(UK)}} [[Republic Pictures]] {{small|(US)}}
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1955|07|12|UK|1956|02|23|US}}
| runtime = 93 minutes
| country = United Kingdom United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross = 1,111,404 admissions (France)<ref>[http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=fr&u=http://www.boxofficestory.com/box-office-brigitte-bardot-c22691591/11&usg=ALkJrhiHQ9o2RYiq51P9BCDaenjxsw5kzg Box office information for film] at Box Office Story</ref>
}}
'''''Doctor at Sea''''' is a 1955 British [[comedy film]], directed by [[Ralph Thomas]], produced by [[Betty E. Box]], and based on [[Richard Gordon (English author)|Richard Gordon]]'s 1953 [[Doctor at Sea (novel)|novel of the same name]]. This was the second of seven films in the ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' series, following the hugely popular ''[[Doctor in the House]]'' from the previous year. Once again, Richard Gordon participated in the screenwriting, together with [[Nicholas Phipps]] and [[Jack Davies (screenwriter)|Jack Davies]], and once again [[Dirk Bogarde]] played the lead character Dr Simon Sparrow. The cast also includes [[James Robertson Justice]] and [[Joan Sims]] from the first film, but this time playing different characters. This was [[Brigitte Bardot]]'s first English-speaking film.

==Plot==
To escape his employers' daughter, who has amorous designs on him, Dr. Simon Sparrow (Bogarde) signs on as medical officer on a cargo ship, "SS ''Lotus''". The ship is commanded by the hot-tempered and authoritarian Captain Wentworth Hogg.

Sparrow overcomes initial [[seasickness]] and settles into life on board. After arriving in a Brazilian port (a local woman demands two hundred [[Brazilian cruzeiro (1942–1967)|cruzeiros]] from Sparrow), he meets Hélène Colbert (Bardot), a young French woman who is a [[nightclub singer]].

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 rank of [[Commodore (rank)|commodore]] within the company if he were to marry her.

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 [[Rio de Janeiro]], which he had told her is the destination for his ship on its next trip. The film ends as they embrace and kiss.

==Main cast==
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* [[Dirk Bogarde]] as Dr. Simon Sparrow
* [[James Robertson Justice]] as Captain Hogg
* [[Brenda De Banzie]] as Muriel Mallet
* [[Brigitte Bardot]] as Hélène Colbert
* [[Maurice Denham]] as Steward Easter
* [[Michael Medwin]] as Third Officer Trail
* [[Hubert Gregg]] as Second Officer Archer
* James Kenney as Fellowes
* [[Raymond Huntley]] as Capt. Beamish
* [[Geoffrey Keen]] as Chief Officer Hornbeam
* [[George Coulouris]] as Ship's Carpenter
* [[Noel Purcell (actor)|Noel Purcell]] as Corbie
* [[Jill Adams]] as Jill
* [[Joan Sims]] as Wendy
* [[Cyril Chamberlain]] as Whimble
* [[Toke Townley]] as Jenkins
* [[Thomas Heathcote]] as Wilson
* [[Eugene Deckers]] as Chief of Police
* [[Michael Shepley]] as Jill's father
* [[Felix Felton]] as Dr George Thomas
{{div col end}}

==Reception==
The film was the third most popular movie at the British box office in 1955, after ''[[The Dam Busters (film)|The Dam Busters]]'' and ''[[White Christmas (film)|White Christmas]]''.<ref>"'The Dam Busters'", ''The Times'' [London, England], 29 December 1955: 12. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 11 July 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/Screen_Volume_32_Issue_3/page/n17|magazine=Screen|page=259|volume=32|issue=3|title=The popular cash and culture in the postwar British cinema industry|first=Janet|last=Thumim}}</ref>

Thomas claimed in 1956 that it made half a million pounds profit.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48072397 |title=Overseas movie gossip |newspaper=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] |volume=24 |issue=26 |location=Australia |date=28 November 1956 |access-date=24 May 2016 |page=79 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

===Critical===
''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' accused Rank studios of playing safe, writing that "Doctor at Sea does not rise to the same laugh-provoking heights as its predecessor".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/1954/film/reviews/doctor-at-sea-1200417921/|title=Doctor at Sea|work=Variety|date=January 1, 1955}}</ref> The ''[[Radio Times]]'' also found it "short on truly comic incident, and the shipboard location is limiting",<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/film/crqn8/|title=Doctor at Sea – review|website=Radio Times}}</ref> but ''[[Allmovie]]'' wrote, "Often funnier than its predecessor, Doctor at Sea proved the viability of the "Doctor" series."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/doctor-at-sea-v62090|title=Doctor at Sea (1955)|website=AllMovie}}</ref>

==Awards==
*Nominated, 1956 BAFTA Film Award, [[BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay|Best British Screenplay]], Nicholas Phipps and Jack Davies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1956/film/british-screenplay|title=BAFTA Awards|publisher=BASTA}}</ref>

==Sequels==
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This was the second installment of the ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor series]]'' of films, with Bogarde featuring in the first three.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0048001|Doctor at Sea}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160807191957/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Doctor-at-Sea_1955 ''Doctor at Sea''] at ''Britmovie''

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