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Britannia Hospital

Will they ever recover...?

1982 · R · 1h 56m

Directed by Lindsay Anderson

6.2

TMDB audience score
75 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.

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Cast

  • Graham Crowden
    Professor Millar

  • Leonard Rossiter
    Vincent Potter

  • Malcolm McDowell
    Mick Travis

  • Joan Plowright
    Phyllis Grimshaw

  • Mark Hamill
    Red: The Media

  • Jill Bennett
    Dr. MacMillan

  • Brian Pettifer
    Biles

  • John Moffatt
    Greville Figg

  • Fulton Mackay
    Chief Superintendant Johns

  • Robin Askwith
    Ben Keating

  • Barbara Hicks
    Miss Tinker

  • Peter Jeffrey
    Sir Geoffrey

  • Catherine Willmer
    Dr. Houston

  • Dave Atkins
    Sharkey

  • John Bett
    Lady Felicity

  • Marcus Powell
    Sir Anthony Mount

  • Richard Griffiths
    Cheerful Bernie

  • Liz Smith
    Maisie