The National Health (film)
| The National Health | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Jack Gold |
| Written by | Peter Nichols (play) |
| Produced by | Terry Glinwood Ned Sherrin |
| Starring | Lynn Redgrave Colin Blakely Eleanor Bron Donald Sinden Jim Dale |
| Cinematography | John Coquillon |
| Edited by | Ralph Sheldon |
| Music by | Carl Davis |
| Color process | Eastmancolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The National Health is a 1973 British comedy film directed by Jack Gold and starring Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely and Eleanor Bron.[1] It is based on the play The National Health by Peter Nichols, in which the staff struggle to cope in a NHS hospital. The film satirically interweaves the story of the real hospital with a fantasy hospital which exists in a soap-opera world where all the equipment is new and patients are miraculously cured – although the only "patients" seen are doctors or nurses who are themselves part of the soap opera plots. In the real hospital, the patients die while the out-of-touch administrators focus on impressing foreign visitors.
Plot[]
Overworked doctors and nurses do their best to cope in a depressing and poorly-equipped National Health hospital.
Cast[]
- Lynn Redgrave as Nurse Sweet / Nurse Betty Martin
- Colin Blakely as Edward Loach
- Eleanor Bron as Sister McFee / Sister Mary MacArthur
- Donald Sinden as Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd
- Jim Dale as Mr. Barnet / Dr. Neil Boyd
- Sheila Scott-Wilkenson as Nurse Powell / Staff Nurse Cleo Norton
- Neville Aurelius as Leyland / Monk
- Gillian Barge as Dr. Bird
- George Browne as The Chaplain
- Patience Collier as The Lady Visitor
- Jumoke Debayo as Nurse Lake
- Robert Gillespie as Tyler
- John Hamill as Kenny
- Don Hawkins as Les
- James Hazeldine as Student Doctor
- Bob Hoskins as Desmond Foster
- David Hutcheson as Mr Mackie
- Mervyn Johns as Doctor Rees
- Bert Palmer as Mr Flagg
- Maureen Pryor as The Matron
- Richie Stewart as Mortuary Attendant
- Clive Swift as Mervyn Ash
- Graham Weston as Michael
References[]
- ^ "The National Health (1973)". Archived from the original on 17 January 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
External links[]
- The National Health at IMDb
- The National Health at Rotten Tomatoes
- The National Health at the TCM Movie Database
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