The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1931 film)

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Doctor in Spite of Himself

| image = Medico per forza1.jpg

| caption =

| director = Carlo Campogalliani

| producer =

| writer = Carlo Campogalliani
Molière (play)
Ettore Petrolini

| starring = Ettore Petrolini
Tilde Mercandalli
Letizia Quaranta

| music = Pietro Sassòli

| cinematography = Ubaldo Arata

| editing = Carlo Campogalliani

| studio = Società Italiana Cines

| distributor = Societa Anonima Stefano Pittaluga

| released = {{Film date|1931|02|}}

| runtime = 55 minutes

| country = Italy

| language = Italian

| budget =

| gross =

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The Doctor in Spite of Himself (Italian: Medico per forza) is a 1931 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Campogalliani.Moliterno p.62 It is a free adaptation of Molière's play Le Médecin malgré lui. It was made at the Cines Studios in Rome.

After starring the comedy, for many times in the theaters, Ettore Petroliniwho had collaborated with the director, to the adaptation of the play reinvents Sganarelle, in a way close to the character Bertoldo of Giulio Cesare Croce. Referring to Petrolini, the film critic Filippo Sacchi had written "You have to accept it as it is, with his temperament and his admirable qualities ... with the grotesque and the joke that elude even without logic in the comic genre"{{Cite web|url=http://www.mymovies.it/dizionario/recensione.asp?id=14526|title=Il medico per forza}}