Britannia Hospital
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| Directed by | Lindsay Anderson |
| Produced by | Clive Parsons Davina Belling |
| Written by | David Sherwin |
| Starring | Malcolm McDowell Leonard Rossiter John Moffatt Fulton Mackay Joan Plowright Robin Askwith |
| Music by | Alan Price |
| Editing by | Michael Ellis |
| Distributed by | EMI |
| Release date(s) | 1982 |
| Running time | 116 min |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | O Lucky Man! |
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Britannia Hospital is a 1982 feature film by British director Lindsay Anderson. It forms the third in a loose trilogy of films by Anderson, written by David Sherwin and featuring Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis.
[edit] Plot summary
The film features Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis, the everyman character who had appeared in two earlier films directed by Anderson: if.... and O Lucky Man!, but in this film he is not such a central character. Another recurring character is Doctor Millar (Crowden) who had also made an appearance as a mad geneticist in O Lucky Man.
Travis is now a reporter and intends to film a documentary about Britannia Hospital, where the treatments are as dichotomous as the rich and poor that are its patients. He manages to get into the hospitaI and starts to investigate the sinister scientific experimentation conducted by Professor Millar (Graham Crowden). The professor is expecting the Queen Mother to visit the hospital to inaugurate his new wing, Potter (Leonard Rossiter) struggles to keep control of his hospital as the catering staff go on strike, painters tasked with finishing before Her Majesty's arrival start acting up, while demonstrators start turning up outside the hospital to protest against an African cannibalistic dictator - a VIP patient for the hospital. A riot ensues and the hero's future is decidedly doubtful.
[edit] Cast (partial list)
- Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis
- Leonard Rossiter as Vincent Potter
- Brian Pettifer as Biles
- John Moffatt as Greville Figg
- Fulton Mackay as Chief Superintendent Johns
- Vivian Pickles as Matron
- Barbara Hicks as Miss Tinker
- Graham Crowden as Professor Millar
- Jill Bennett as Dr. MacMillan
- Peter Jeffrey as Sir Geoffrey
- Joan Plowright as Phyllis Grimshaw
- Robin Askwith as Ben Keating
- Dave Atkins as Sharkey
- Mark Hamill as Red
- Richard Griffiths as Cheerful Bernie
- Arthur Lowe (part name unknown)
