Dentist In The Chair. Image shows from L to R: David Cookson (Bob Monkhouse), Sam Field (Kenneth Connor)
Dentist In The Chair

Dentist In The Chair

  • 1960 film

Comedy with Bob Monkhouse, Peggy Cummings and Kenneth Connor. A burglar breaks into the wrong shop and steals medical instruments instead of silver. Stars Bob Monkhouse, Peggy Cummins, Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker, Ronnie Stevens and more.

  • Repeated Monday 1st April at 7am on TPTV
Dentist In The Chair. David Cookson (Bob Monkhouse)

Key details

Genre
Film
Released
1960
Creator
Matthew Finch
Stars
Bob Monkhouse, Peggy Cummins, Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker, Ronnie Stevens, Vincent Ball, Eleanor Summerfield, Reginald Beckwith and more
Writers
Val Guest, Bob Monkhouse and George Wadmore
Director
Don Chaffey
Producer
Bertram Ostrer
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Burglar Sammy Field breaks into the wrong shop and steals medical instruments instead of silver. Keen to be rid of the goods, he infiltrates a dental college to try to get rid of the array of instruments as quickly and with as few questions asked as possible.

He quickly manages to catch the attention of a pair of young, broke students. David Cookson and Brian Dexter agree to sell the "bankrupt stock" he's purchased, on to their fellow students for rock-bottom prices - with a small cut for themselves, of course. An initial sale is predictably successful with the hard-up trainees, but when David's love interest, Peggy, spots a newspaper report about the dental supply shop's burglary, the group begin to panic.

Not keen to face the law as accessories to theft, the trio resolve to retrieve all the instruments they sold. Unfortunately their fellow dental trainees are less than keen to part with the bargains they secured, so when Sammy arrives to collect his cut of the sale, they rope him in to help. It's not long before the police turn up at the school though, and Sam must go undercover as a regular student to avoid detection.

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Additional details

UK certificate
U
Duration
79 minutes
Distributors

Renown Pictures

Production
Studio
Camera set-up
Single camera
Picture
Black and white

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Broadcast details

Next repeats
  1. Monday 1st April at 7am on TPTV
Most recent repeats
  • Friday 10th November 2023 at 2:45am on TPTV
  • Tuesday 11th July 2023 at 6:00am on TPTV
  • Friday 10th March 2023 at 6:00am on TPTV

Recording details

  • Pinewood Studios

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