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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Outride the Devil: A Morning with Doc Holliday
This play on film highlights the last fourteen years of Doc Holliday’s life culminating with the old west’s legendary Gunfight at the OK Corral, which took place in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881. Filmed at the Creative Arts Theatre in Arlington Texas. 2005|87 min|Color|1.85:1/widescreen|NR
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Boss Nigger (Boss) [DVD-Blu-ray combo]
First time on Blu-ray!
Part devil, part legend and all man, Boss (former football star Fred Williamson) is an ex-slave who’s “decided to hunt white folks for a change,” becoming a bounty hunter and setting out on the trail of fugitive outlaw Jed Clayton (William Smith). With his comic sidekick Amos (D’Urville Martin), he rides into the town of San Miguel, finds that it has no sheriff and takes the job himself. Boss takes a bite out of local crime, chases women and brings the hammer down on Clayton in this amusing and action-filled parody of the 1970s blaxploitation genre, instituting black man’s law in this white man’s town! 1975|87 min.|Color| 2.35:1/Cinemascope|Rated PG
SPECIAL FEATURES: “A Conversation with Fred ‘The Hammer’ Williamson” with Joel Blumberg; “A Boss Memory” with Producer Myrl Schrelbman; Jack Arnold Tribute by producer Myrl Schrelbman.
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Promises! Promises!
This sexy shipboard romp about two women who are pregnant but don’t know which of the husbands is the father resulted in a headline-grabbing photo spread in Playboy Magazine. Comic Fritz Feld gives Tommy Noonan a pill to help him become a father … was this the original “blue pill?” 1963|75 min|B&W|1.85:1/widescreen|NR (Nudity)
SPECIAL FEATURES: Uncensored on the set Photo Shoot – includes photos used and not-used by Playboy Magazine; Original Theatrical Trailer; Actor Bios
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