The public and private lives of 5 girls, who start out as student nurses in the National Health service during the 1950's.
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| George Baker | ... | Jim | |
| Belinda Lee | ... | Susan | |
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Delphi Lawrence | ... | Pat |
| Adrienne Corri | ... | Maureen | |
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Henryetta Edwards | ... | Anne |
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Barbara Archer | ... | Liz |
| Diana Wynyard | ... | The Matron | |
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Joan Haythorne | ... | Home Sister |
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Beatrice Varley | ... | Sister Snow |
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Joan Carol | ... | Theatre Sister |
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Constance Fraser | ... | Assistant Matron |
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Vivienne Drummond | ... | Second-year Nurse |
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Christopher Rhodes | ... | Ted Robinson |
| Richard Leech | ... | Casualty Doctor | |
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Newton Blick | ... | Lofty |
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The public and private lives of 5 girls, who start out as student nurses in the National Health service during the 1950's.
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Those Wonderful Nurses-In-Training...Trying to Give Their All to Mankind...Or To The Right Kind of Man! See more »Certificate:
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Susan: Oh yes - let the nurses do it! They're expendable. They haven't any union, just a vocation, that's all. Oh what fools, the lot of us!See more »
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There's nothing out of place in The Feminine Touch, a by the numbers melodrama that tells the story of a group of student nurses as they make their way through school. The acting is fine, the direction competent and the story sufficiently interesting to hold the viewers attention. Add it up and you have a watchable movie, but really, not much more than that. Clichéd characters and situations are a major liability in this film. There's doe eyed Susan (Belinda Lee),the cynical world weary Pat (Adrienne Cory) and the handsome Dr Alcott (George Baker)all delivering flat, colourless dialogue in you've seen it all before situations. The film looks great in Technicolor and the pacing is good, but you get the sense that it could have been much better.