Doctor's Dilemma, The (1958) - (Movie Clip) They Daren't Be Ill

Doctor's Dilemma, The - (Original Trailer)

A woman tries to convince the medical profession to save her ill husband despite his lack of character in The Doctor's Dilemma (1958), starring Leslie Caron and Dirk Bogarde.

Doctor's Dilemma, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Surgeons Are The Worst

Opening narration by Felix Aylmer, whom we’ll learn is London psychologist Sir Patrick Cullen, ruminating about medicine as he visits his suddenly famous friend Dr. Ridgeon (John Robinson), Anthony Asquith directing from the Bernard Shaw play, in The Doctor’s Dilemma, 1959.

Doctor's Dilemma, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) I Loathe Money

Producer and screenwriter Anatole de Grunwald adapts from George Bernard Shaw’s play, from doctors discussing one of their number’s proclaimed cure for consumption, to introduce top-billed Leslie Caron and Dirk Bogarde, as painter Dubedat and wife, in The Doctor’s Dilemma, 1959.

Doctor's Dilemma, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Intemperate, Disheveled, Dissolute

Invited to dine by Ridgeon (John Robinson) and fellow doctors (Robert Morley, Alastair Sim et al) to assess his worthiness for a cure, consumptive artist Dubedat (Dirk Bogarde) and wife (Leslie Caron) appear to pass muster, in The Doctor’s Dilemma, 1958, from the Bernard Shaw play.