Mick Travis 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 Her Royal Highness is ...
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Leonard Rossiter | ... | Vincent Potter: Administration | |
| Brian Pettifer | ... | Biles: Administration | |
| John Moffatt | ... | Greville Figg: Administration | |
| Fulton Mackay | ... | Chief Superintendant Johns: Administration | |
| Vivian Pickles | ... | Matron: Administration | |
| Barbara Hicks | ... | Miss Tinker: Administration | |
| Graham Crowden | ... | Professor Millar: Medicos | |
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Jill Bennett | ... | Dr. MacMillan: Medicos |
| Peter Jeffrey | ... | Sir Geoffrey: Medicos | |
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Marsha A. Hunt | ... | Nurse Amanda Persil: Medicos (as Marsha Hunt) |
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Catherine Willmer | ... | Dr. Houston: Medicos |
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Mary MacLeod | ... | Casualty Sister: Medicos |
| Joan Plowright | ... | Phyllis Grimshaw: The Unions | |
| Robin Askwith | ... | Ben Keating: The Unions | |
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Dave Atkins | ... | Sharkey: The Unions |
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Mick Travis 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 Her Royal Highness is to visit the hospital to inaugurate a new wing, where advanced (and sinister) scientific experiments led by Prof. Millar will take place. Everybody in the hospital, from the cooks who refuse to cook, to the painters who couldn't care less to get their job done, to an African cannibalistic dictator (a la Amin Dada) whom demonstrators want expelled from the hospital and tried, will contribute to making HRH's visit (and Mick Travis's life) a true nightmare. Written by Dragomir R. Radev <radev@cs.columbia.edu>
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27 May 1982 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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Music by Thomas Augustine Arne and lyrics by James Thomson
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Actor Leonard Rossiter and director Lindsay Anderson previously had worked together on This Sporting Life (1963) about nineteen years earlier. See more »Goofs
The nurse removes the gauze from HRH twice. 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 ...See more »
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Fulton Mackay's character was billed as Chief Superintendant; the correct spelling is Superintendent. See more »Soundtracks
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Anderson's dark satire on politics within a hospital (perhaps after the apocalypse) falls slightly flat only for those familiar with the 2 exceptional films that this one is ostensibly a sequel to. The humor here is even more extreme and grotesque than in "O Lucky Man" -- at one point the hero's head is cut off and placed on a substitute body. Hamill is amusing as a news technician too stoned to save MacDowell, or even himself, from the lunacy. Unfortunately, the script relies on "joke jokes" and has too little of an emotional center (MacDowell's character is taken out of the center of things here for some reason, perhaps budgetary). Nice photography. Fans of sadistic humor should get a great kick out of it, but "O Lucky Man" and "If....." are in every way superior.