Doctor at Large
All the Bare Facts and Figures that Add Up to a Young Medic’s Love Life!
Dr. Sparrow learns to keep one step ahead of the opposite sex while learning the route to his becoming a surgeon.
This is part of the hugely popular Doctor series of films, with Dirk Bogarde reprising his role as Dr. Simon Sparrow. By now he is a fully-fledged doctor in a casualty department. Longing for excitement, he gets more than he bargained for while treating an important patient rudely, he gets his marching orders! His new job won’t cure his desires to be a surgeon, but, the opposite sex will keep him on his toes and moving through the hilarious situations that make Dr. Sparrow the envy of his superiors.
1957 | 98 min | Color | Optional English Subtitles | 1.85:1 – 16×9/4×3 Letterbox | Dolby Digital 2.0 & 5.1 Enhanced | Region 1 | NR
Special Features:
- Commentary with Muriel Pavlow and Donald Sinden
- Photo GalleryReview:
“Another entry in [this] pleasing series,…” – Leonard Maltin
Dirk Bogarde, Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice, Shirley Eaton, Derek Farr, Michael Medwin, George Coulouris, Anne Heywood, Lionel Jeffries, Mervyn Johns, Ernest Thesiger
Directed byRalph Thomas
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Gasoline Alley and Friends
6 movies/2 DVDs
GASOLINE ALLEY – The popular Frank O. King comic strip characters go from newspaper page to screen in this 1951 feature from legendary comedy director Edward Bernds (of Three Stooges and Bowery Boys fame). Scotty Beckett and Jimmy Lydon are Corky and Skeezix, half-brothers who find themselves in the restaurant business until complications and some family conflicts arise. 1951|76 min|B&W|1.37:1|NR
CORKY, OF GASOLINE ALLEY – How long can a cousin visit? That’s the question for Corky (Scotty Beckett) when his wife’s cousin (Gordon Jones) makes himself an unwanted houseguest, begins telling Wallet family members how to run their businesses, and blows up one of Corky’s restaurant’s ranges AND one of Skeezix’s (Jimmy Lydon) cars! Another entertaining comedy-drama for fans of the classic Frank O. King comic strip. 1951|80 min.|B&W|1.37:1:NR
AS YOU WERE – Oh, those Army daze–and nights! An infusion of WAC beauties adds to the fun when ex-G.I. “Dodo” Doubleday (William Tracy), now a hotel clerk, impresses Army brass with his memory, and considers going back into the military. But recruiting station sergeant Bill Ames (Joe Sawyer), remembering how Tracy jinxed him back in WWII days, begs him not to re-enlist! 1951|57 min.|B&W|1.33:1|NR
STOP THAT CAB – Babies and bandits spell trouble for Sid Melton, a bumbling Hollywood cabby whose night is filled with constant harassment from his wife (Iris Adrian), and whose fares include a radio quiz show contestant in search of a movie star, an expectant mother who is no longer expectant when she LEAVES his cab—and a gunman! 1951|57 min.|B&W|1.37:1|NR
MR. WALKIE TALKIE – Joe Sawyer and William Tracy return in another wacky service comedy, Sawyer as the exasperated sergeant of a GI trainee (Tracy) who remembers everything he has ever heard. Their misadventures include reassignment to Korea, an enemy spy and the offer of a Congressional Medal of Honor for Sawyer—if he can control his temper long enough to get it! 1952|65 min.|B&W|1.37:1|NR
LEAVE IT TO THE MARINES – Quintessential schnook Sid Melton, looking for the license bureau so that he can marry his girl Mara Lynn, instead stumbles upon a Marine recruiting office and ends up in uniform. Lynn reacts by joining the Woman’s Marine Corps. Between the two of them, they’re the Howls of Montezuma and the Roars of Tripoli in this frantic service comedy. 1951|68 min.|B&W|1.33:1|NR
SPECIAL FEATURES: Cartoon Promo, Photo and Advertising Galleries
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Drive-In Grindhouse Collection
4 movies/2 DVDs
THE FARMER’S OTHER DAUGHTER: Salesman Jim Huckleberry (William Michael) isn’t much interested in agriculture until he meets farmer’s daughter June (Judy Pennebaker), which greatly increases his willingness to engage in a bit of plowing. He convinces June and other local lovelies to wear his newly invented bathing suits in a Fourth of July beauty contest–unaware that they disintegrate in water. Further complications result in the arrival of the militia and an unexpectedly explosive finale! 1965|84 min.|Color|1.85:1(Widescreen)|NR
LIKE IT IS (Psychedelic Fever): The generation that went to pot is profiled in this kaleidoscope of ‘60s drug culture! It’s a cross between a serious documentary and drive-in exploitation. Why lie? This isn’t good. But, there’s plenty of cool footage of San Francisco’s love generation, and it’s interspersed with scenes of randy flower children cavorting in the nude at the drop of an illicit smokeable! The financing for the “special effects” (endless LSD “trip” sequences) may have come from the refund of a bus ticket to Barstow. Hey, this is cinéma vérité, baby! 1968|72 mins.|Color/B&W| 1.85:1(Widescreen)|Rated R
UP YOURS – A Rockin’ Comedy: Story – it has one? Well, it’s supposed to be an erotic comedy smorgasbord of blackout gags inspired by goings on by the wacky tenants of an apartment hotel. The overall production makes Ed Wood seem like Stanley Kubrick. But remember there is at least one good thing — a tripod is used to steady the camera…most of the time. A violation of the “movie lemon law,” or a cult classic? You be the judge. 1979|92 mins.|Color |1.85:1(Widescreen)|Rated R
SUMMER SCHOOL (Mag Wheels): Cut-rate “If this vans rockin’, don’t bother knockin’” classic for teensploitation schlockophiles. It’s all here: jocks, boogie boardin’, a candy ass doofus, and plenty of shag van vs. four wheelin’ gangs with elevated hormones. The “acting” makes “Police Academy” seem like “Becket” in comparison, and everything else is bottom of the barrel, too. With lines like “I’m Rachel, fly me,” you can’t miss. So what if Ms. Magazine won’t give it any awards? 1979|81 mins.|Color|1.85:1(widescreen)|Rated R
SPECIAL FEATURE: Trailer Collection
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Psychotronica Vol. 1 – Delinquent Schoolgirls/Dream No Evil
DELINQUENT SCHOOLGIRLS: Our protagonists in this K-Mart budgeted cinematic carrion are escapees from an insane asylum! One is an ex-baseball player turned rapist, another is gay, and the ringleader is a low-rent impressionist. When they stumble upon an all-girls school, antisocial behavior with these siliconed “students” ensues, but with a twist – the busty babes know karate! Dream No Evil: Don’t pay any attention to the turtleneck-sweatered snobs who demand that the negative to this classic be burned. It does have a script, kind of, even if it appears to have been written as they filmed. A deranged young woman searches for her father, and every time the continuity becomes too confusing a narrator comes on to save the day with “explanations.” With lines like, “your duck is bleeding really badly,” you can’t pass this up! 1972|89 min|Color|1.85:1/widescreen|NR
DREAM NO EVIL: A deranged young woman searches for her non-existent father, when “Daddy” comes to life on a morgue galley he scalpels his mortician to death! Don’t pay any attention to the turtleneck-sweatered snobs who demand that the negative to this classic be burned. It does have a script, kind of, even if it appears to have been written as they filmed. A deranged young woman searches for her father, and every time the continuity becomes too confusing a narrator comes on to save the day with “explanations.” With lines like, “your duck is bleeding really badly,” you can’t pass this up! 1970|74 min|Color|1.85:1/widescreen|Rated R
SPECIAL FEATURES: Delinquent Schoolgirls Commentary by actor Bob Minor moderated by Elijah Drenner
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Jerry Warren Vol. 1 – Man Beast/Wild World of Batwoman/Curse of the Stone Hand
MAN BEAST: The trail to the top of the world leads to terror as Americans on a Himalayan climbing expedition are led into the mountainous lair of the ape-like Yeti by a sinister native guide. Producer-director Jerry Warren specialized in movies made with few dollars and less sense but Man Beast finds the Hollywood underground’s “Abominable Showman” at the top of his low-budget game with a twisty script and excellent snowy locations. 1956|67 min|B&W|1.85:1 (widescreen)|NR
WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN: Holy rip-off! At the 1960s height of Batmania, schlock movie master Jerry Warren concocted this way-out tale of Batwoman (Katherine Victor with a bat drawn on her chest with eyeliner), a distaff crimefighter who, with her Bat Girls, is hired to protect the Ayjax Development Company’s newest invention, an atomic hearing aid, from the arch-villain Ratfink. “Wonderfully woeful and thoroughly brain-dead” — The Phantom of the Movies. 1966|70 min.|B&W|1.85:1 (widescreen)|NR
CURSE OF THE STONE HAND: A twin-pack of south-of-the-border shudders, this anthology horror flick combines a 1946 chiller about a man who joins a gambling club only to find that it’s actually a suicide club, and a 1959 Mexi-movie about a sadistic child who grows up to lead a life of evil. Hollywood-made “framing scenes” star master of menace John Carradine and schlock-film seductress Katherine Victor. 1964|72 min|1.33:1|NR
SPECIAL FEATURES: Audio interview with Kathering “Batwoman” Victor, with Tom Weaver (reenactment); Original Theatrical Trailers; More
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