Despite this novelty, it's a dull trip. Lilli Palmer provides the love interest. Script adapt . Probably the best Dickens adaptation in cinema. Like the book the first third is the best but the rest is still pretty good.
Script adapt .
It opens with hands at a typewriter as Cockerill types out what will be his resignation letter. On closer inspection he turns out to be played by an almost unrecognisable Moore Marriott . It's a pity he gets bumped off because Marriott plays it wonderfully straight - a mean, grumpy git who sets himself up to be a victim. We then meet the hospital staff around an operating table. Tensions abound in this hospital and they come to a head when Higgins is brought in - a victim of a doodle bug.