Britannia Hospital
Britannia Hospital is a 1982 black comedy film by British director Lindsay Anderson which targets the National Health Service and contemporary British society. It was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival and Fantasporto.
A new wing at Britannia Hospital is to be opened, and the Queen Mother referred to as HRH is due to arrive. The administrator of the hospital, Potter Leonard Rossiter, is confronted with demonstrators protesting against an African dictator who is a VIP patient, striking ancillary workers opposed to the exotic gastronomic demands of the hospitals private patients and a lessthancooperative Professor Millar Graham Crowden, the head of the new wing. Rather than cancel the royal visit, Potter decides to go out and reason with the protestors. He strikes a deal with the protest leader the private patients of Britannia Hospital are to be ejected and, in return, the protestors allow a number of ambulances into the hospital. However, unbeknown to the protestors, these ambulances actually contain the Queen Mother and her entourage.Mick Travis Malcolm McDowell is a reporter who is shooting a clandestine documentary about the hospital and its dubious practices. He manages to get inside and starts to investigate Millars sinister scientific experimentation, including the murder of a patient, Macready Alan Bates. As mayhem ensues outside, Travis is also murdered and his head used as part of a grim Frankensteinlike experiment which goes hideously wrong. ........
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