The National Health. Image shows from L to R: Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd (Donald Sinden), Sister McFee / Sister Mary MacArthur (Eleanor Bron), Nurse Lake (Jumoke Debayo), Barnet / Dr. Neil Boyd (Jim Dale). Copyright: Virgin

Key details

Genre
Film
Released
1973
Stars
Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Jim Dale, Donald Sinden, Bob Hoskins, David Hutcheson, Mervyn Johns and more
Writer
Peter Nichols
Director
Jack Gold
Producers
Ned Sherrin and Terry Glinwood
Company

Black comic satire on the National Health Service, contrasting the bleak reality of life in a dull, average hospital, with the imagined goings-on at a hospital in a TV medical soap opera, and its plethora of staff.

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Additional details

UK certificate
AA
Duration
98 minutes
UK release
Tuesday 6th March 1973
Produced
1972
Distributors

Columbia Pictures

Also known as
  • The National Health Or Nurse Norton's Affair
  • Nurse Norton's Affair
Production
Location
Camera set-up
Single camera
Picture
Colour

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Recording details

  • EMI-MGM Elstree Studios

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