The Doctor's Dilemma

(1958)

99 minutes

Comedy / Drama

Directed by Anthony Asquith

Cast:

Leslie Caron as Mrs. Dubedat 
Dirk Bogarde as Louis Dubedat 
Alastair Sim as Cutler Walpole 
Robert Morley as Sir Ralph Bloomfield-Bonington 
John Robinson as Sir Colenso Ridgeon 
Felix Aylmer as Sir Patrick Cullen 
Michael Gwynn as Dr. Blenkinsop 
Maureen Delaney as Emmy 
Alec McCowen as Redpenny 
Colin Gordon as Newspaper Man 
Gwenda Ewen as Minnie 
Terence Alexander as Mr. Lanchester 
Derek Prentice as Head Waiter 
Peter Sallis as Secretary at Picture Gallery 
Clifford Buckton as Butcher 

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Mrs. Dubedat’s artistic husband Louis is dying from tuberculosis. She loves him too much to lose him, so she visits a doctor to persuade him to keep her husband alive. The doctor can only have a certain amount of patients, but feels Louis deserves to live since he is so talented. He is a left with a dilemma when he and his associates discover that Louis is a greedy man who has another wife he has deserted. Now he is unsure on what to do. Should he save him, but have Mrs. Dubedat face his double-life or let him die with her not knowing anything.