The National Health (1973): Cast

Peter Nichols adapts his own hospital‑based play into a sharp black comedy that juxtaposes the grim, overcrowded London ward with a soap opera blaring from its TVs. The same actors—Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely and a young Bob Hoskins—play both the “real” patients and the TV characters. Directed by Jack Gould, the film features a Carl Davis score.

• JG Director Jack Gold

• Lynn Redgrave as Nurse Sweet / Nurse Betty Martin
• Colin Blakely as Edward Loach
• Bob Hoskins as Foster
• Eleanor Bron as Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd

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Also known as

• The National Health, or Nurse Norton's Affair
• Bis zum letzten Patienten
• 公共医疗