Doctor in Love (1960)

Director
Ralph Thomas

Main cast
Michael Craig; Virginia Maskell; Leslie Phillips; James Robertson Justice; Nicholas Phipps

Genres
Comedy

Description
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.


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