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* SignatureScene: The famous "bleeding time" scene. Sir Lancelot explains the "bleeding time", then asks a distracted Simon "You! What's the bleeding time?", to which Simon checks his watch. It was later referenced in ''Film/DoctorInDistress1963'' and Creator/JamesRobertsonJustice's biography ''James Robertson Justice: What's the Bleeding Time?''.

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* SignatureScene: The famous "bleeding time" scene. Sir Lancelot explains the "bleeding time", then asks a distracted Simon Simon, "You! What's the bleeding time?", to which Simon checks his watch. It was later referenced in ''Film/DoctorInDistress1963'' and Creator/JamesRobertsonJustice's biography ''James Robertson Justice: What's the Bleeding Time?''.

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* OneSceneWonder: Creator/JoanSims as Rigor Mortis. She's on screen for less than a minute and spends most of that time munching on an apple, yet still provides a rather amusing scene.

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* OneSceneWonder: Creator/JoanSims as Rigor Mortis. She's on screen on-screen for less than a minute and spends most of that time munching on an apple, yet still provides a rather amusing scene.



* ValuesDissonance: As the film was made in TheFifties, some things don't fly with today's society:

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* SignatureScene: The famous "bleeding time" scene. Sir Lancelot explains the "bleeding time", then asks a distracted Simon "You! What's the bleeding time?", to which Simon checks his watch. It was later referenced in ''Film/DoctorInDistress1963'' and Creator/JamesRobertsonJustice's biography ''James Robertson Justice: What's the Bleeding Time?''.
* ValuesDissonance: As the film was made in TheFifties, The50s, some things don't fly with today's society:
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** Mrs. Groaker is played by Creator/JoanHickson, who would later be best known for playing Literature/MissMarple in TheEighties' BBC adaptations.

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** Mrs. Groaker is played by Creator/JoanHickson, who would later be best known for playing Literature/MissMarple in TheEighties' BBC adaptations.''Series/MissMarple1984''.

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* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Before Betty Box bought the film rights, no one wanted them as no film about doctors had been successful in the past. This film, however, was estimated to have recouped its budget in first six weeks of being released.

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* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Before Betty Box bought the film rights, no one wanted them as no film about doctors had been successful in the past. This film, however, However, this film was estimated to have recouped its budget in the first six weeks of being released.


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** The Dean is played by Geoffrey Keen, who would later be best known for playing Sir Frederick Gray in the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' films.


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** May is played by Gudrun Ure, who would later be best known for playing Super Gran in ''Series/SuperGran''.
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** Mrs. Groaker is played by Creator/JoanHickson, who would later be best known for playing Literature/MissMarple in TheEighties' BBC adaptations.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: Rigor Mortis is played by Creator/JoanSims, five years before she joined the ''Film/CarryOnSeries''.

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** Milly Groaker is played by Creator/ShirleyEaton, who would later be best known for playing Jill Masterson in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
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Rigor Mortis is played by Creator/JoanSims, five years before she joined the ''Film/CarryOnSeries''.
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* OneSceneWonder: Creator/JoanSims as Rigor Mortis. She's on screen for less than a minute and spends most of that time munching on an apple, yet still provides a rather amusing scene.
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* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Before Betty Box bought the film rights, no one wanted them as no film about doctors had been successful in the past. This film, however, was estimated to have recouped its budget in first six weeks of being released.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Rigor Mortis is played by Creator/JoanSims, five years before she joined the ''Film/CarryOnSeries''.
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* ValuesDissonance: As the film was made in TheFifties, some things don't fly with today's society:
** One of the nurses is played by a white actress in {{Blackface}}.
** The mention of dating an Indian girl is met with the comment of being "knee-deep in boiled rice".
** Mrs. Groaker's advert for a room for rent notes that she doesn't take any Irish gentlemen.
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