Doctor in Clover

is a 1966 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice and Shirley Anne Field.

The film is based at the (fictitious) St Swithin's Hospital, where Dr Gaston Grimsdyke, an accident-prone doctor and cad, is more interested in the nurses than the patients.

Grimsdyke discovers that a plum senior medical post is shortly to become vacant, and starts scheming to be considered, instead of his cousin, who has already been unofficially offered the job.

[10] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Apart from a flurry of schoolboy smut about blanket baths and so forth, this depressing comedy relies almost exclusively on well-tried slapstick routines: people pulling each other into a swimming-pool, a fire extinguisher getting out of hand and soaking everybody in sight, laughing gas set off among the guests at a party.

James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips and Joan Sims work hard without a funny line to share between them; and Arthur Haynes contributes a tiresome comedy turn (based on his TV persona) as an argumentative patient.

"[11] "The title alone will go a long way towards selling this picture", noted Graham Clarke in Kinematograph Weekly, "and it backs this with a good ration of knockabout fun.