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Writer:
David Sherwin (writer)
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Release Date:
27 May 1982 (UK) more
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Will they ever recover ... ?
Plot:
Mick Travis is a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
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British Producer Parsons Dies
 (From WENN. 21 August 2009, 12:06 PM, PDT)

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Brilliant black comedy more (21 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Leonard Rossiter ... Vincent Potter
Brian Pettifer ... Biles
John Moffatt ... Greville Figg
Fulton Mackay ... Chief Superintendant Johns
Vivian Pickles ... Matron
Barbara Hicks ... Miss Tinker
Graham Crowden ... Professor Millar
Jill Bennett ... Dr. MacMillan
Peter Jeffrey ... Sir Geoffrey
Marsha A. Hunt ... Nurse Amanda Persil (as Marsha Hunt)
Catherine Willmer ... Dr. Houston
Mary MacLeod ... Casualty Sister
Joan Plowright ... Phyllis Grimshaw
Robin Askwith ... Ben Keating
Dave Atkins ... Sharkey
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Runtime:
116 min | USA:111 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Professor Millar: Friends! Fellow Members of the Human Race! We are gathered here for a purpose. Let us look together at Mankind. What do we see? We see Mastery. What wonders Mankind can perform. He can cross the oceans and continents today, as easily as our grandfathers crossed the street... more
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Referenced in The Unforgettable Arthur Lowe (2000) (TV) more
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RULE BRITANNIA more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
Brilliant black comedy, 30 August 2005
8/10
Author: lizness from United Kingdom

If you like films that leave an impression on you - then you'll like this. I saw this for the first time when I was quite young, I think my dad wished he'd known how weird it would get, or he probably wouldn't have let me watch it with him.

Whilst there is a riotous strike going on outside the hospital there is weirdness going on inside, as an eccentric doctor performs some truly sadistic acts on his patients to fulfill his own ambitions.

Its full of faces any 30-plus British audience will recognise, and if you're an Orbital fan you'll love the speech at the end which they sampled for Snivilisation.

A cult black comedy, with some quite horrific bits in, its quintessentially British, but definitely not in the vain the Full Monty or Four Wedding (thank god!).

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