Main Cast: Victor Banerjee, Warren Mitchell, Geraldine McEwan, Denis Quilley, Amanda Donohoe
Release Year: 1986
Country: US/UK
Run Time: 108 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
Victor Banerjee, the India-born star of David Lean's A Passage to India, is the central figure of director Ronald L. Neame's Foreign Body. Jobless in Calcutta, Banerjee steals money from his own father to afford passage to Britain. There he makes contact with his cousin Warren Mitchell, who arranges for Banerjee to get a job as a bus conductor. But when he begins to ardently pursue a lovely young white woman, Banerjee loses his job at the behest of the girl's influential father. His luck changes radically when Banerjee administers mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a bus accident victim, whereupon he is mistaken for a doctor by friendly model Amanda Donohoe (probably the nicest she's ever been on film). Donohoe talks up the skills of this "new Indian doctor", and before he knows what has hit him, Banerjee is head physician to the Prime Minister of England--with virtually every woman in the land vying for his services in bed! Never letting on where it is heading next, Foreign Body is adapted from an equally tricky novel by Roderick Mann. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Eve Ferret - Norah Plumb; Trevor Howard - Dr. Stirrup; Anna Massey - Miss Furze; Stratford Johns - Mr. Plumb; Jane Laurie - Jo Masters; Timothy Bateson - Agent at Harley Street; Edita Brychta - Jean; Roy Evans - Newspaper Vendor; Ann Firbank - Mrs. Plumb; Peter Forbes-Robertson - Bystander; Jack Galloway - Hilary Pike; Patrick Godfrey - Simons; Roger Hammond - Pub Landlord; Janet Henfrey - Landlady; Rashid Karapiet - Mr. Nahan; Clive Mantle - Tough Character on Bus; Eric Mason - 2nd Lodging House Man; Angela Morant - Antique Shop Lady; Albert Moses - Paramedic 2; Neville Phillips - Customer in Toilet; Paul Rattee - Paramedic 1; John Rogan - 1st Lodging House Man; Marc Zuber - Macho Escort; Peggy Aitchison - Lodging House Lady; Harriet Thorpe - Gucci Salesgirl; Richard Wilson - Colonel Partridge
Credit
Ronald Neame - Director, Andrew Nelson - Editor, Ken Howard - Composer (Music Score), Roy Stannard - Production Designer, Ronnie Taylor - Cinematographer, Christopher Neame - Producer, Colin M. Brewer - Producer, Celine la Freniere - Screenwriter, Roderick Mann - Book Author
