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Britannia Hospital ()

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The chaotic workings of a hospital with staff on strike.
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Vincent Potter: Administration
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Biles: Administration
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Greville Figg: Administration
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Chief Superintendant Johns: Administration
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Matron: Administration
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Miss Tinker: Administration
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Professor Millar: Medicos
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Dr. MacMillan: Medicos
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Sir Geoffrey: Medicos
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Nurse Amanda Persil: Medicos (as Marsha Hunt)
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Dr. Houston: Medicos
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Casualty Sister: Medicos
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Phyllis Grimshaw: The Unions
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Ben Keating: The Unions
Dave Atkins ...
Sharkey: The Unions
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Mick Travis: The Media
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Red: The Media
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Sammy / Voice of Genesis: The Media
Peter Machin ...
Peter Mancini: The Media
Marcus Powell ...
Sir Anthony Mount: The Palace
John Bett ...
Lady Felicity: The Palace
Gladys Crosbie ...
H.R.H.: The Palace
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Odingu: The Radicals
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Aide: The Radicals
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Aide: The Radicals (as Jim Findlay)
Pauline Melville ...
Clarissa: The Radicals
Kevin Lloyd ...
Picket: The Radicals
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Picket: The Radicals
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Picket: The Radicals
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Florrie: The Workers
Glenn Williams ...
Whooley: The Workers (as Glen Williams)
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Painter: The Workers
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Painter: The Workers
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Fraser: The Workers
Jagdish Kumar ...
Sen: The Workers
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Blodgett: The Workers
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Feeney: The Workers
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Cheerful Bernie
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Jeff
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Miss Diamond
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Mr. Rochester
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General Wetherby
Betty Marsden ...
Hermione
Adele Strong ...
Old Lady
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Taxi Driver
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Private Nurse
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Private Nurse
Val Pringle ...
President Ngami
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Mr. Banzai
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Captain Mbwami
Alan Penn ...
Padre
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Maisie
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Adrian
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Gregory (as Gordon John Sinclair)
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BBC Cameraman
Paul McCleary ...
Assistant
Paul Kember ...
Sound Recordist
Jane Stonehouse ...
P.A.
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Intensive Sister
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Casualty Nurse
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Ambulanceman
Ellis Dale ...
Man in Wheelchair
Maggie Ollerenshaw ...
Miss Rowntree
Elizabeth Bennett ...
Nurse / Demonstrator
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Nurse
Brenda Cavendish ...
Nurse
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Guest Workman
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Guest Workman
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Macready: Guest Patient
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Guest Patient
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Theatre Surgeon
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Theatre Surgeon
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Theatre Surgeon
Peter Holmes ...
Theatre Surgeon
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Theatre Surgeon (as Salmaan Peer)
Janette Foggo ...
Theatre Nurse
Cora Kinnaird ...
Theatre Nurse
Joshua Bancel ...
Demonstrator
Burt Caesar ...
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Demonstrator (as Joe Cameron-Brown)
Ginnette Clarke ...
Demonstrator
Paul Cooper ...
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Jo Crawford ...
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Demonstrator (as Ronnie Cush)
Derek Hollis ...
Demonstrator
Di Langford ...
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Roy Macready ...
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Roger Martin ...
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Verity Anne Meldrum ...
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Marsha Miller ...
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Yasmin Pettigrew ...
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Martin Ransley ...
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Demonstrator (as James Stephens)
David Telfer ...
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Helen Webb ...
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Major Wiley ...
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Eilian Wyn ...
Demonstrator
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Hyma Beckley ...
Patient (uncredited)
Russell Brook ...
Onlooker (uncredited)
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Kitchen Worker (uncredited)
Aileen Lewis ...
Lady-In-Waiting (uncredited)
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Patient (uncredited)
Peter Ross-Murray ...
Hospital patient (uncredited)
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Demonstrator (uncredited)
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Hospital Casualty - On Trolley (uncredited)

Directed by

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Lindsay Anderson

Written by

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David Sherwin ... (written by)

Produced by

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Davina Belling ... producer
John Comfort ... associate producer
Mamoun Hassan ... executive producer (uncredited)
Clive Parsons ... producer

Music by

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Alan Price

Cinematography by

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Mike Fash

Editing by

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Michael Ellis

Editorial Department

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Gordon Brown ... assistant editor
Dennis McTaggart ... assistant editor

Casting By

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Patsy Pollock

Production Design by

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Norris Spencer

Set Decoration by

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Simon Wakefield

Makeup Department

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Alan Boyle ... makeup artist
Linda DeVetta ... makeup supervsior
Nick Maley ... special makeup effects
Pat McDermott ... hair stylist
Marian Nicholson ... special makeup effects crew (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Michael Murray ... assistant director
Terry Needham ... first assistant director
Roger Simons ... first assistant director
Chris Brock ... third assistant director (uncredited)
Timothy Reed ... third assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department

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Dave Coldham ... HOD plasterer
Dean Coldham ... plasterer
Roy Evans ... construction manager
John Leuenberger ... property master
Keith Pain ... assistant art director
Peter Russell ... draughtsman
Roger Cain ... assistant art director (uncredited)
Roy Cannon ... chargehand props (uncredited)
Andrew Garnet-Lawson ... scenic artist (uncredited)
Bob Hedges ... chargehand props (uncredited)
Richard Holland ... draughtsman (uncredited)
Peter Palmer ... production buyer (uncredited)
Roy Pembrooke ... props (uncredited)
Peter Ward ... supervising carpenter (uncredited)

Sound Department

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John Chandler ... boom operator
Ian Fuller ... sound editor
David Grimsdale ... assistant sound editor
Alan Pattillo ... sound effects editor
Hugh Strain ... dubbing mixer
Lionel Strutt ... re-recording mixer
Bruce White ... sound mixer
Guido Reidy ... sound maintenance (uncredited)

Special Effects by

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Peter Aston ... additional special effects
Richard Conway ... special effects technician
George Gibbs ... special effects supervisor
Steve Hamilton ... special effects technician
David McCall ... special effects technician (as Dave McCall)

Visual Effects by

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Roy Field ... optical effects supervisor (uncredited)
Charles Stoneham ... matte artist (uncredited)

Stunts

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Joe Dunne ... stunt coordinator
Nick Gillard ... stunt double: Mark Hamil
Stuart St Paul ... stunts
Eddie Stacey ... stunt coordinator
Chris Webb ... stunt performer (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department

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Frank Connor ... still photographer
Tony Cridlin ... grip
Simon Hume ... clapper loader
Mike Miller ... focus puller
Mike Roberts ... camera operator
Laurie Shane ... gaffer

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Ian Hickinbotham ... wardrobe supervisor
Monica Howe ... wardrobe consultant
Keith Morton ... wardrobe master
Sue Wain ... wardrobe assistant

Location Management

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William Lang ... location manager (as Bill Lang)

Music Department

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Derek Wadsworth ... conductor / music arranger / composer: additional music (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

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Valerie Booth ... continuity

Additional Crew

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Marilyn Clarke ... production assistant
Ted Craig ... assistant to director
Catherine O'Brien ... unit publicist
Richard Ryan ... assistant to director (as Richard Tombleson)
Gerald C. Wheatley ... production accountant (as Gerry Wheatley)
Peter Heslop ... production runner (uncredited)
Christine Higgs ... producer's assistant (uncredited)
Linda Nettleton ... accounts secretary (uncredited)
Dianne Twiddy ... assistant accountant (uncredited)
Christina Weiss Lurie ... assistant to director (uncredited)
Crew believed to be complete

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Storyline

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Plot Summary

Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) is a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society. It's the day when the Queen Mother is to visit the hospital to inaugurate a new wing, where advanced (and sinister) scientific experiments led by Professor Millar (Graham Crowden) will take place. Everybody in the hospital, from the cooks who refuse to cook, to the painters who couldn't care less about getting their work done, to a cannibalistic African dictator (à la Idi Amin Dada Oumee) whom demonstrators want expelled from the hospital and tried, will contribute to making Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's visit (and Mick Travis's life) a true nightmare. Written by Dragomir R. Radev

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Taglines Will they ever recover ... ? See more »
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Also Known As
  • Anderson's Britannia Hospital (World-wide, English title)
  • Lindsay Anderson's Britannia Hospital (World-wide, English title)
  • Госпиталь 'Британия' (Soviet Union, Russian title)
  • Hospital dos Malucos (Brazil)
  • Britannia gyógyintézet (Hungary)
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Runtime
  • 116 min
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Trivia Mark Hamill, Sir Alan Bates, and Malcolm McDowell worked for free. See more »
Goofs At 02:40, the nurse puts her cape on twice. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Free Cinema (1986). See more »
Soundtracks RULE BRITANNIA See more »
Crazy Credits Fulton Mackay's character was billed as Chief Superintendant; the correct spelling is Superintendent. See more »
Quotes 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. Tomorrow he will as easily cross the vast territories of space. He can make deserts FERTILE and plant cabbages on the Moon. And what does man CHOOSE? Alone among the creatures of this world, the Human Race CHOOSES to ANNIHILATE itself. Since the last world conflict ended, there has not been one day in which Human Beings have not been SLAUGHTERING or wounding one another, in 200 and 30 different wars. And man BREEDS as recklessly as he lays waste. By the end of the century, the population of the world will have TRIPLED. 2/3rds of our plant species will have been DESTROYED. 55% of the Animal Kingdom. and 70% of our mineral resources. Out of every hundred Human Beings now living, 80 will DIE without ever KNOWING what it FEELS like to be fully nourished... While a tiny minority INDULGE themselves in ABSURD and EXTRAVAGANT luxuries. A motion picture entertainer of North America will receive as much money in a MONTH as would feed a starving South American tribe for a hundred YEARS! We WASTE! We DESTROY! AND, we cling like SAVAGES to our SUPERSTITIONS. We give POWER to LEADERS of State and Church as prejudiced and small-minded as ourselves, who SQUANDER our resources on instruments of destruction... While Millions continue to SUFFER and go hungry, condemned FOREVER to lives of IGNORANCE and DEPRIVATION. And why is this? It is because mankind has denied Intelligence, the unique glory of our species - the Human Brain. Man is entering an era of INFINITE possibility, still imprisoned in a FEEBLE, inefficient body... Still manacled by primitive notions of morality, which have NO PLACE in an Age of Science... Still powered by a brain that has HARDLY developed since the species emerged from the caves. Only a NEW intelligence can save Mankind! Only a new Human Being of PURE BRAIN can lead man forward into the new era. I do not speak of DREAMS. Such a being exists already. I have created it! It is HERE. NOW. Prepare yourselves to meet the Human of the Future. Neither Man nor Woman. Greater than either. I have given it a name. Genesis. Birth. A New Birth. A New Beginning for Mankind. People of Today, Behold Your Future!
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