The National Health
- 1973 film
Satire on the National Health Service. Stars Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Jim Dale, Donald Sinden and more.
The National Health
Jack Gold's film about life and death in a shabby London hospital interweaves the story of the real hospital with a fantasy one which exists in the soap-opera world of Nurse Norton's Affair, where everything is fully funded and patients are miraculously cured.
A darkly funny satire on the state of the nation and also a deeply prescient comment on TV's ability to turn tragedy into entertainment, The National Health sits somewhere between the bawdy antics of the Carry On films and the angry satire of Lindsay Anderson's Britannia Hospital, but emerges as a starkly prophetic film, more relevant now than ever.
Available for the first time ever in the UK.
First released: Monday 28th August 2017
Extra features
- New audio commentary with star Jim Dale
- New interview with playwright and author Peter Nichols
- Original theatrical trailer
- Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
- Released: Monday 22nd August 2022
- Distributor: Powerhouse Films
- Discs: 1
- Minutes: 98
- Subtitles: English
- Catalogue: PHIBD032
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- Distributor: Powerhouse Films
- Discs: 2
- Minutes: 98
- Subtitles: English
- Catalogue: PHIDFE032
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BCG may earn commission on sales generated through the links above.
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