Britannia Hospital (1982) on Netflix
Britannia Hospital prepares for a gala anniversary and a royal visit. Administrator Vincent Potter faces striking workers and an uncooperative Professor Millar. Mick Travis is filming inside.
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Plot summary
Vincent Potter runs Britannia Hospital, which is preparing a gala anniversary and a visit from royalty. Outside, demonstrators protest the presence of a VIP patient, an African dictator. Ancillary workers are on strike over what the private patients expect to eat, and Professor Millar, head of the new wing, refuses to cooperate. Rather than call the visit off, Potter goes out to reason with the protest leader and agrees to eject the private patients so that some ambulances may pass. Mick Travis works as a reporter and is making a secret documentary about the hospital. A sympathetic nurse gets him inside, and he starts looking into Professor Millar's experiments.
Cast
- John Moffattas Greville Figg
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Britannia Hospital (1982)
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- Lindsay Anderson traced Britannia Hospital back to a 1975 newspaper story about the siege of Charing Cross Hospital, where a union official nicknamed Granny Brookstern led a demonstration against fee-paying private patients, which he called a wonderfully absurd paradox.
- Malcolm McDowell, returning as Mick Travis, worked on Britannia Hospital for expenses only and no fee, because the budget could not cover his normal fee and he wanted to work with director Lindsay Anderson again.
- Mark Hamill played Red in Britannia Hospital for free plus expenses after the original choice for the part, Treat Williams, bowed out.
- Arthur Lowe's turn as a hospital patient in Britannia Hospital was his final film appearance; he died shortly after his scenes were filmed.
- During filming, director Lindsay Anderson found he needed another $1 million and two extra weeks to finish the film.
