A medical student is taken under the wing of three roguish colleagues who lead him astray into a series of pranks and amorous escapades that succeed in infuriating the dictatorial chief surgeon. Comedy based on the novel by Richard Gordon, starring Dirk Bogarde, Kenneth More, James Robertson Justice and Donald Sinden.

The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.