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Student Of Medicine
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Best British Actor | 1955
Best Film from any Source | 1955
Best British Screenplay | 1955
Best British Film | 1955
Best Film | 1955
The most popular movie of its year at the U.K. box-office.
This movie contains a blatantly racist joke concerning Tony Benskin (Donald Sinden) getting out of a marriage proposal he had inadvertently made by asking all of the nurses to marry him, and to prove that his proposal was not serious, he even asked a black nurse (this character is visibly played by a white actress in blackface). This joke was changed for the television series Doctor in the House (1969).
Robert Morley demanded a fee of fifteen thousand pounds sterling when offered the part of Sir Lancelot Spratt. As this would have constituted nearly one-sixth of this movie's proposed budget, the filmmakers instead hired James Robertson Justice at one-tenth the salary. Justice scored a great personal triumph in this movie, and played the role again in five sequels. It was to remain his best-known movie part.
Robert Morley was first offered the role of Sir Lancelot Spratt, but turned it down for financial reasons. In the much later sequel Doctor in Trouble (1970), James Robertson Justice was to play both Spratt and his brother Captain George Spratt, but suffered a stroke: Morley stepped in to play the captain.
This movie was made on a budget of just ninety-seven thousand pounds sterling. Producer Betty Box claimed that it got back almost its entire cost during its initial run at one cinema in London's West End.
"Sir Lancelot Spratt: You cut a patient he bleeds, until the processes of nature form a clot and stop it. This interval is known scientifically as the 'bleeding time'. You! What's the bleeding time? Simon Sparrow: Ten past ten, sir."
"Sir Lancelot Spratt: Alright, I've swallowed a doorknob. What would my symptoms be? Richard Grimsdyke: A slight indigestion?"
