Directed by:
Jack GoldCinematography:
John CoquillonComposer:
Carl DavisCast:
Bob Hoskins, Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Donald Sinden, Jim Dale, David Hutcheson, Clive Swift, Mervyn Johns, Gillian Barge, Patience Collier (more)VOD (2)
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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. (Powerhouse Films)
(more)Cast
Bob Hoskins
UK
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Lynn Redgrave
UK
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Colin Blakely
UK
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Eleanor Bron
UK
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Donald Sinden
UK
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Jim Dale
UK
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Carry On Cleo (1964)
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David Hutcheson
UK
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Clive Swift
UK
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Excalibur (1981)
Frenzy (1972)
Young Toscanini (1988)
Mervyn Johns
UK
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Never Let Go (1960)
Moby Dick (1956)
Gillian Barge
UK
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Patience Collier
UK
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Graham Weston
UK
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John Hamill
UK
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Maureen Pryor
Ireland
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La Symphonie pathétique (1971)
Doctor at Large (1957)
Bert Palmer
UK
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Robert Gillespie
France
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