The Lamp Still Burns
The Lamp Still Burns is a 1943 British drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Rosamund John, Stewart Granger and Godfrey Tearle. Its plot concerns a woman architect who changes careers to become a nurse.
During the Second World War, Laurence Rains Stewart Granger is annoyed when female architect Hilary Clarke Rosamund John insists he must enlarge the first aid room in his factory to satisfy government regulations, despite having the best safety record in the country. He encounters her once again, now a nurse trainee assisting a doctor treat one of his employees. He finds out that Clarke only became an architect to please her father, who had no sons to follow in his profession. When she saw how her young assistant at her firm, seriously injured in a traffic accident, was tended to by the nurses, she found her true vocation. Pamela Siddell Margaret Vyner, a violinist and Rains fiancee, sees his attraction to Clarke.Through the influence of Sir Marshall Freyne Godfrey Tearle, one of her clients and a member of the board of Queen Eleanors Hospital, Clarke is allowed to embark on a tough nurse training course, though she is somewhat older than the typical nineteen or twentyyearold candidate. Her independence gets her into trouble time and time again with the strict, bythebook matron in charge of the nurses Cathleen Nesbitt when she questions some of the numerous regulations for example, nurses are not allowed to speak directly to the doctors. ........
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