The National Health
- 1973 film
Satire on the National Health Service. Stars Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Jim Dale, Donald Sinden and more.
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
- 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