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The National Health (1973) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1973 · 98 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Jack Gold
- Starring
- Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Bob Hoskins, Clive Swift, Robert Gillespie
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.
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