Doctor in Clover

Doctor in Clover (1966)

The Newest and Funniest Doctor of them all!

Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of the main Administrator (James Robertson Justice) who wants his doctors to be 100% focussed on the job. Numerous antics follow, with Phillips getting Justice fixed up with the new prim-and-proper Matron (Joan Sims) and his attempted failures to lure the hospital's beauty, the physiotherapist.

Date of release
1966-03-08
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (18)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Ralph Thomas
Collection
The Doctor Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Pinewood Studios

Doctor in Clover is a 1966 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice, Shirley Anne Field, John Fraser, Joan Sims, and Arthur Haynes. The film is based on the 1960 novel of the same title by Richard Gordon. It is the sixth of the seven films in the Doctor series.

Production

The novel Doctor in Clover was published in 1960. Film rights were bought by the Rank Organisation, whose head of production Earl St John announced the film for production in 1961. However, it took a number of years for the film to be made. The film was formally announced in 1964, one of a series of comedies that Rank were making at the time (others including Carry On Cleo and That Riviera Touch).

The film was shot in Carnaby Street, Wormwood Scrubs and Pinewood Studios.

The opening credits include the following acknowledgement: We are grateful for the help and facilities given at Wexham Park Hospital by the staff of the Hospital, Humphreys Ltd. and The Windsor Group Hospital Management Committee.

While the film was shown at its full 101-minute duration in most other countries, the British Board of Film Classification ordered that the UK cinema version had to be cut down to 97 minutes in order to get an "A" (adult) classification, and that duration has remained in later British video releases.

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