The National Health is a 1973 British black 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.
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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 | Virgin Films |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Overworked doctors and nurses do their best to cope in a depressing and poorly-equipped National Health hospital.
Films directed by Jack Gold | |
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