- Actors: Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Donald Sinden, Jim Dale
- Directors: Jack Gold
- Writers: Peter Nichols
- Producers: Ned Sherrin, Terry Glinwood
- Format: Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Sony Pictures Home
- DVD Release Date: 16 Aug 2010
- Run Time: 95 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B004D0002G
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 61,978 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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I remember this film from the 1970s. Its a very funny yet scathing attack on our health service back then. The hospital featured reminds me of a hospital my father was in in the late 1960s. I used to nurse but did my training at the Westminster Hospital, now moved to Chelsea & renamed the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. Nursing standards & care were so different in the elite London Teaching Hospitals compared with the ordinary suburban hospitals. Nurses from the Westminster nursed King George VI, our Queen's father, in his last illness.There is a sub-plot in the film which shows a love affair in an American hospital., The American hospital gleams, & looks like something out of the Space age. There was a series called Dr Kildare on in the 1960s/ 1970s & its a take on that. Anyway, I've just come out of hospital, now aged 66, & wonder waht has happened to "nursing care". If you can't look after yourself in hospital these days no one else will!
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The National Health
26 Feb 2012
Format:DVD
You can't buy this in the UK. Its a very funny, scathing attack on the National Health Service in the UK in the 1970s. I remember when my father was in a very similar hospital to the British hospital featured in the film in the late 1960s. I used to nurse, but did my training at the then Westminster Hospital which was an elite teaching hospital in the centre of London, now moved to Chelsea & called the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. The difference in standards between the ordinary suburban hospitals & the London teaching hospitals was enormous. Nurses from our hospital, Westminster, had nursed King George VI, our Queen's father during his final illness. Anyway there are two plots in this film, contrasting the dirty, rundown British hospital with an American hospital as seen in the Dr Kildare series which was very popular in the UK at that time. The contrast between the dirty British hospital & the gleaming space-age corridors of the American hospital is breathtaking. All British people should watch this film. Our National Health Service seems to be in another decline, I have just returned home from hospital, now aged 66 & wonder what happened to "nursing". Patients are no longer tended. You get on with it or God help You!
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