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White Corridors is a 1951 British drama film directed by Pat Jackson and starring Googie Withers, Godfrey Tearle, James Donald and Petula Clark. It is based on the 1944 novel Yeoman's Hospital by Helen Ashton. The film is set in a hospital shortly after the establishment of the National Health Service.
White Corridors: Directed by Pat Jackson. With Googie Withers, James Donald, Godfrey Tearle, Petula Clark. Hospital drama set at the Yeoman's Hospital, in the English Midlands, during the early 1950s.
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- Drama
- Pat Jackson
- 1951-10-01
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- Googie Withers
- Pat Jackson
- Vic Films Productions
Sophie Dean, a young and gifted surgeon, is torn between her love for pathologist Dr Neil Mariner, and a prestigous post in London. Mariner's research is on penicillin-resistant infection, and whilst drawing blood from a young boy with septicaemia, he inadvertently infects himself.
White Corridors offers a serious, sober look at a hospital in the early days of the NHS – wildly different in tone to the Doctor franchise waiting around the corner (far more akin to Behind the Mask).
- Pat Jackson
- Vic Films Productions
White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of curing diseases impervious to penicillin.
James Donald Cast. Godfrey Tearle Cast. Petula Clark Cast. Jan Read Screenplay. C.M. Pennington-Richards Cinematography. Sidney Hayers Editing. Critics reviews. Hospital drama set at the Yeoman’s Hospital, in the English Midlands, during the early 1950s.
