Doctor in Distress is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Justice, and Samantha Eggar. It was the fifth film in the Doctor Series. After a one-film absence, it marked the final return to the role of Simon Sparrow by Dirk Bogarde, and the return to the series of Donald Houston. Simon Sparrow, now a senior doctor at St Swithins, falls in love with Delia, a model and aspiring actress. They eventually move in together, but then she goes to Italy to try out for a film. Meanwhile, 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 St Swithins as a patient, follows her himself . He proposes to her, but is eventually rejected in favour of another of her patients, retired army Major Tommy Ffrench.
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| Release date: | July 30, 1970 |
| Directed by: | Ralph Thomas |
| Runtime: | 102 Minutes |
| Genre: | Comedy |