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{{Infobox film
| name = Doctor in Distress
| image = Doctor in Distress British quad poster.jpeg
| alt =
| border = yes
| caption = Original British 1963 [[Film poster#Film poster sizes|quad film poster]]
| director = [[Ralph Thomas]]
| producer = [[Betty E. Box]]
| screenplay = [[Nicholas Phipps]]<br/>Ronald Scott Thorn
| starring = [[Dirk Bogarde]]<br/>[[James Robertson Justice]]<br/>[[Samantha Eggar]]
| music = [[Norrie Paramor]]
| cinematography = [[Ernest Steward]]
| editing = [[Alfred Roome]]
| studio = [[Rank Organisation]]
| distributor = [[Rank Film Distributors]]
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1963|07|20|UK|1964|07|07|USA}}
| runtime = 102 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
}}
'''''Doctor in Distress''''' is a 1963 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Ralph Thomas]] and starring [[Dirk Bogarde]], [[James Robertson Justice]], and [[Samantha Eggar]]. It is the fifth of the seven films in the ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' series. After a one-film absence, it was the final return to the role of Simon Sparrow by [[Dirk Bogarde]], and also the return (although in a different role) of [[Donald Houston]]. The film uses some of the characters in [[Richard Gordon (English author)|Richard Gordon]]'s ''Doctor'' novels, but is not based on any of them.

==Plot==
Simon Sparrow, now a senior doctor at Hampden Cross Hospital, falls in love with Delia, a model and aspiring actress. They eventually move in together, but then she goes to Italy to audition for a film.

Meanwhile, Sir Lancelot Spratt injures his back in a fall. Placed under the care of [[physiotherapist]] Iris Marchant, he is initially hostile, but soon succumbs to her charms. He turns to his friend Simon for advice. Simon sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight. Spratt has Iris followed, and, when his private investigator turns up at Hampden Cross as a patient, follows her himself (terrorising a nervous train passenger in the process). He proposes to her, but is eventually rejected in favour of another of her patients, retired army Major Tommy French.

Delia returns to England, having somehow acquired an expensive Italian car (a [[Maserati Sebring]]) and expensive clothes, though she did not win a part in the film. It is implied that she and Simon get together again.

==Main cast==
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*[[Dirk Bogarde]] as Dr. Simon Sparrow
*[[James Robertson Justice]] as Sir Lancelot Spratt
*[[Samantha Eggar]] as Delia Mallory
*[[Barbara Murray]] as Iris Marchant
*[[Mylène Demongeot]] as Sonia and Helga
*[[Donald Houston]] as Major Tommy French
*Jessie Evans as Mrs. Parry
*[[Ann Lynn]] as Mrs. Whittaker
*[[Leo McKern]] as Harry
*[[Dennis Price]] as Dr. Blacker
*[[David Weston (actor)|David Weston]] as Dr. Stewart
*[[Fenella Fielding]] as Train Passenger
*[[Jill Adams]] as Genevieve
*[[Paul Whitsun-Jones]] as Grimes
*[[Michael Flanders]] as Bradby
*[[Amanda Barrie]] as Rona
*[[Reginald Beckwith]] as Meyer
*[[Bill Kerr]] as Australian Sailor
*[[Michael Goldie]] as Physical Training Instructor
*[[Ronnie Stevens (actor)|Ronnie Stevens]] as Hotel Manager
*[[Peter Butterworth]] as Ambulance Driver
*[[Derek Fowlds]] as Gillibrand
*[[Timothy Bateson]] as Mr. Holly
*[[Joe Robinson (actor)|Joe Robinson]] as Sonia's Boyfriend
*[[Ronnie Barker]] as Man at Railway Station Ticket Counter
*[[John Bluthal]] as Railway Porter
*[[Marianne Stone]] as Cafe Waitress
*[[Harry Landis]] as man in cafe
*[[Ronald Lacey]] as man in cafe
*[[Denise Coffey]] as Food seller at Railway Station
*Jeanette Landis as Rosie
*Margaret Boyd as Lady Willoughby
*[[Frank Finlay]] as Corsetiere
*Rodney Cardiff as Student Doctor
*[[Richard Briers]] as Medical Student (uncredited)
*[[Christopher Beeny]] as Medical Student (uncredited)
*[[Johnny Briggs (actor)|Johnny Briggs]] as Medical Student (uncredited)
*[[Felix Felton]] as Farm Patient (uncredited)
{{div col end}}

==Reception==
The film was one of the ten most popular movies at the British box office in 1963.<ref>"Most Popular Films Of 1963", ''The Times'', 3 January 1964, from The Times Digital Archive, retrieved 11 July 2012.</ref>

According to ''[[Kine Weekly]]'' the four most popular films at the British box office in 1963 were ''From Russia With Love'', ''Summer Holiday'', ''Tom Jones'' and ''The Great Escape'', followed by, in alphabetical order, ''Doctor in Distress'', ''The Fast Lady'', ''Girls! Girls! Girls!'', ''Heaven's Above'', ''Jason and the Argonauts'', ''In Search of the Castaways'', ''It Happened at the World's Fair'', ''The Longest Day'', ''On the Beat'', ''Sodom and Gomorrah'', ''The V. I. Ps'', and ''The Wrong Arm of the Law''.<ref>{{Cite thesis|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/42604873.pdf| page=288|year=1985|publisher=University of York|title=CLASS, SEXUALITY AND THE*BRITISH CINEMA 1956-63|first=William John|last=Hill}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0057004}}
*{{Rotten Tomatoes|doctor_in_distress}}
*{{tcmdb title|73275}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160807191525/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Doctor-in-Distress_1963 ''Doctor in Distress''] at Britmovie

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