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Britannia Hospital (DVD, 2004)

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Actors ‏ : ‎ Malcolm McDowell, Leonard Rossiter, Brian Pettifer, John Moffatt, Fulton Mackay. and the go-getter coffee salesman in the 1973 film O Lucky Man! Set in a large, 500-year-old public hospital, Britannia Hospital is a dark, scattershot, Swiftian satire of the class conflicts in pre-Thatcher England.

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A farce set in an old hospital that alarmingly resembles Britain at its most chaotic. Everything starts to go wrong when the medical administrators are faced with a threatened strike, angry scenes and a Royal visit.

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EAN5014138300166

eBay Product ID (ePID)30481912

Product Key Features

ActorMarsha Hunt, Arthur Lowe, Joan Plowright, Leonard Rossiter, Graham Crowden, Robin Askwith, Jill Bennett, Malcolm McDowell

Film/TV TitleBritannia Hospital

DirectorLindsay Anderson

Release Year2004

FormatDVD

LanguageEnglish

FranchiseMick Travis Trilogy

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Run Time112 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

Number of Discs1

Additional InformationDirector Lindsay Anderson and screenwriter David Sherwin continue their story of Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell), who played the rebellious school boy in the 1969 film IF and the go-getter coffee salesman in the 1973 film O LUCKY MAN! In BRITANNIA HOSPITAL, Mick Travis is now an undercover investigative TV reporter in another allegorical story of the decline of the West. Set in a large, 500-year-old public hospital, BRITANNIA HOSPITAL is a dark, scatter-shot, Swiftian satire of the class conflicts in pre-Thatcher England. The hospital, staffed by megalomaniacal doctors, is in a state of near anarchy as its administration prepares for a visit from The Queen. Striking workers only allow "croakers"--patients near death--into the hospital, the kitchen staff refuses to prepare food until union leaders are bought off with promises of O.B.E.'s, and the head surgeon (Graham Crowden) conducts, with public funds, expensive, deranged experiments, like inventing a modern Dr. Frankenstein, while poor patients are deprived of basic services. On the day of the Royal visit, busloads of protesters arrive, and after a battle with riot police, attempt to prevent the Royal ceremony.<BR>Working in a less apocalyptic and surreal style than the style of O LUCKY MAN!, but still more fantastic than the American comedy THE HOSPITAL, Anderson and Sherwin try to anchor this extremely black comedy to a somewhat realistic setting while still aiming at nothing less than a comic indictment of all the ills of Western culture.

MusicAlan Price

Movie/TV TitleBritannia Hospital

Director of PhotographyMike Fash