Main Cast: Michael Craig, Dorothy Alison, Glyn Owen
Release Year: 1959
Country: US/UK
Run Time: 86 minutes
Plot
This film is based on the popular British TV series Emergency Ward 10. A surgeon arrives from the U.S. with a new heart-lung machine in order to save a young boy who has a hole in his heart. The doctor is treated coolly by a jealous rival, and an old man dies while on the new life-saving machine. Controversy erupts, among his more traditional colleagues, over the American doctor's experimental methods. Character diversity is well-represented by the patients; a woman waiting to bear quadruplets, the old man, the young boy, and the neglected wife. Romance, humor and drama surround the doctors, nurses and patients, all leading to an inevitable hospital party. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
Charles "Bud" Tingwell - Dr. Alan Dawson; Frederick Bartman - Dr. Simon Forrester; Joan Sims - Mrs. Pryor; Rupert Davies - Dr. Tim Hunter; Sheila Sweet - Anne Hunter; David Lodge - Mr. Phillips; Dorothy Gordon - Mrs. Phillips; Christopher Witty - David Phillips; Tony Quinn - Joe Cooney; Douglas Ives - Potter; George Tovey - Mr. Pryor; Pauline Stroud - Nurse Vincent; Christina Gregg - Nurse April Andrews; Wilfrid Hyde-White - Professor Bourne-Evans; Clifton Jones; Maurice Kaufmann; Jean Aubrey; John Baker; Peter Greenspan; Howard Knight; Enid Lindsey
Credit
Robert Day - Director, Leto Carruthers - Editor, Philip Green - Composer (Music Score), Geoffrey Faithfull - Cinematographer, Ted Lloyd - Producer, Hazel Adair - Screenwriter
