Britannia Hospital

Tale of a troubled hospital preparing for a royal visit., Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) is a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society. It’s the day when Her Royal Highness is to visit the hospital to inaugurate a new wing, where advanced (and sinister) scientific experiments led by Prof. Millar (Graham Crowden) will take place. Everybody in the hospital, from the cooks who refuse to cook, to the painters who couldn’t care less to get their job done, to an African cannibalistic dictator (a la Amin Dada) whom demonstrators want expelled from the hospital and tried, will contribute to making HRH’s visit (and Mick Travis’s life) a true nightmare., It is a day of celebration for Britannia Hospital, 500 years of service to the community; and now the community seems to be tearing itself apart. The hospital gates are picketed by demonstrators, strikes and bombs are every day’s news and the Queen Mother is coming to visit., Lindsay Anderson’s allegory about a besieged hospital. Leonard Rossiter, Graham Crowden, Malcolm McDowell, Joan Plowright. Macmillan: Jill Bennett. A misguided follow-up to “O Lucky Man!”, Brittania Hospital attempts to put on its best face in preparation for a visit from the Queen Mother, despite the presence of dissatisfied patients, angry protesters, and a chief surgeon turned mad scientist. This very British black comedy mixes broad farce with pointed political satire., Satirical blackcomedy charting the chaos that results when the panicked staff of a major English hospital attempts to prepare for a visit by the Queen Mother, only to face every problem imaginable.