The National Health [1973] [DVD]Lynn Redgrave (actor) Donald Sinden (actor) Format: all-region dvd (worldwide) Runtime: 92 min Quality: Excellent
This adaptation of Peter Nichols's play shows the United Kingdom in intensive care. The setting is a rundown, ramshackle hospital, where the grisly reality of life on a men's ward contrasts with the slippery fiction of a TV soap opera entitled Nurse Norton's Affair.
Director Jack Gold assembles some sprightly set pieces and fine actors (Donald Sinden, Lynn Redgave, Jim Dale) who give real clout to Nichols's sometimes contrived satire. |