The British National Health System is skewered in this comedy set in a rundown London hospital. The hospital is filled with wacky staff members and patients, and the film strives to get all it can from their humorous escapades. The movie also includes a satire-within-a-satire, with "Nurse Norton's Affair" providing a send-up of TV hospital soap operas.
Trailer
Cast
Jack Gold
Director
Lynn Redgrave
Nurse Sweet
Lynn Redgrave
Nurse Betty Martin
Colin Blakely
Edward Loach
Eleanor Bron
Sister McFee
Eleanor Bron
Sister Mary MacArthur
Donald Sinden
Mr. Carr
Donald Sinden
Senior Surgeon Boyd
Jim Dale
Barnet
Jim Dale
Dr. Neil Boyd
Bob Hoskins
Foster
David Hutcheson
Mackie
Mervyn Johns
Rees
Bert Palmer
Flegg
Clive Swift
Ash
Gillian Barge
Dr. Bird
George 'Calypso' Browne
The Chaplain
Patience Collier
The Lady Visitor
Jumoke Debayo
Nurse Lake
Robert Gillespie
Tyler
John Hamill
Kenny
Maureen Pryor
The Matron
Sheila Scott Wilkinson
Nurse Powell
Sheila Scott Wilkinson
Cleo Norton
Peter Nichols
Writer
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source: The National Health
The National Health
Jim Dale is a revelation in this movie, with only slight echoes of his "Carry on Doctor" movies - here he has much richer material to play with. The appalling conditions of an under-funded national health hospital are comically contrasted with a "Dr Kildare" style soap showing in the ward televisions. The contrast between the real world and the fantasy soap world is skillfully done. A charming, tragic, funny and intelligent black comedy made in the days when Britain generally made very poor comedy movies.