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Doctor at Sea (Original title)
Dates: 1955 (Copyright), 29 August 1955 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Ralph Thomas

Synopsis: Adventure of a young doctor on board ship.

Genres:
Comedy, Medical drama
Releases
Date: 1955Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 93 mins Length: 8370 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (30)
©: Group Film Productions, Production Company: Group Film Productions, Executive Producer: Earl St. John, Produced by: Betty E. Box, Production Manager: R. Denis Holt, Production Controller: Arthur Alcott, Assistant Director: David Orton, Continuity: Yvonne Axworthy, Screenplay by: Nicholas Phipps, Jack Davies, Adapted for the screen by: Richard Gordon, By [Original Novel]: Richard Gordon, Director of Photography: Ernest Steward, Technicolor Colour Consultant: Joan Bridge, Camera Operator: H.A.R. Thomson, Editor: Frederick Wilson, Art Director: Carmen Dillon, Costume Designer: Joan Ellacott, Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway, Music Composed by: Bruce Montgomery, Song "Je Ne Sais Pas" written by: Hubert Gregg, [Music] Conducted by: Muir Mathieson, Sound Recording: John W. Mitchell, Sound Recording: Gordon K. McCallum, [Boom Assistant]: John Brommage, Sound Editor: Roger Cherrill, Sound Editor: Eric Boyd-Perkins, [Publicity Director]: Theo Richmond, Made at: Pinewood Studios
Cast (30)
Dirk Bogarde (Dr Simon Sparrow), Brigitte Bardot (Helene Colbert), Brenda De Banzie (Muriel Mallet), James Robertson Justice (Captain Hogg), Maurice Denham (Easter), Michael Medwin (Trail), Hubert Gregg (Archer), James Kenney (Fellowes), Raymond Huntley (Captain Beamish), Geoffrey Keen (Hornbeam), George Coulouris ('Chippie' ship's carpenter), Noel Purcell (Corble), Jill Adams (Jill), Joan Sims (Wendy Thomas), Cyril Chamberlain (Whimble), Toke Townley (Jenkins), Thomas Heathcote (Wilson), Abe Barker (Old Harry), Frederick Piper (Sandyman), Michael Shepley (Jill's father), Eugene Deckers (Colonel Perello, chief of police), Mary Laura Wood (blonde), Ekali Sokou (Phyllis), Joan Hickson (Mrs. Thomas), Felix Felton (Dr George Thomas), Martin Benson ([head waiter]), Harold Kasket ([policeman in prison]), Stuart Saunders ([policeman on dock]), Delene Scott, Julia Bratsi ([uncredited])