The National Health (1973)
1h 38m
Running Time
March 6, 1973Release Date
The National Health (1973)
1h 38m
Running Time
March 6, 1973Release Date
Plot.
Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it contrasts the appalling conditions in a overcrowded London hospital with a soap opera playing on the televisions there. In an ingenious touch, the same actors appear in the "real" story as well as the "TV" one, thus blurring the distinctions even further. Jack Gould directs such outstanding British actors as Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Jim Dale, Donald Sinden, Mervyn Johns, and, in only his second film, Bob Hoskins. The renowned Carl Davis composed the score.
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Cast & Crew.
Lynn Redgrave
Nurse Sweet
Colin Blakely
Edward Loach
Eleanor Bron
Sister McFee
Donald Sinden
Mr. Carr
Sheila Scott-Wilkenson
Nurse Powell / Cleo Norton
Neville Aurelius
Jim Dale
Barnet
Gillian Barge
George Browne
Bob Hoskins
Foster
David Hutcheson
Mackie
Mervyn Johns
Rees
Bert Palmer
Flegg
Clive Swift
Ash
Jack Gold
Director
Peter Nichols
Writer
Media.
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This Movie Is About.
london england
based on play or musical
hospital
Wiki.
The National Health is a 1973 British black comedy film directed by Jack Gold and starring Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely and Eleanor Bron. 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 β 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.
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