The Feminine Touch

The Feminine Touch (1956)

The public and private lives of 5 girls, who start out as student nurses in the National Health service during the 1950's.

Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s Hospital (filmed at Guy's Hospital), where they live in a dormitory. Susan (Belinda Lee) is reliable and sensible; Pat (Delphi Lawrence) is flighty and open; Maureen (Adrienne Corri) is Irish and loud; Ann (Henryetta Edwards) is a typical public school girl; and Liz (Barbara Archer) comes from a typical working class background. As they get to know each other, they bond in spite of their differences.

Date of release
1956-06-19
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Drama
Director
Pat Jackson

Casting

Interesting facts

The Feminine Touch is a 1956 colour British drama film directed by Pat Jackson and starring George Baker, Belinda Lee and Delphi Lawrence. It was the last feature film to be filmed in three-strip Technicolor and one of the last films made by Ealing under the umbrella of Rank.

Production

Michael Balcon of Ealing Studios wanted to make a hospital film but Sir John Davis of Rank was reluctant; eventually Balcon managed to get approval for this movie.

In December 1954 it was announced Iain MacCormick had written a script.

It was the first Ealing movie directed by Pat Jackson, who had made an earlier film about nursing, White Corridors (1951). It was one of the last pair of films made at Ealing Studios, which had been sold to the BBC, and one of the last Ealing movies under the nine-year relationship between Rank and Ealing. (Ealing would move to MGM studios, make several more movies, then be wound up.)

It was the last feature film to be shot in three-strip Technicolor, utilising Technicolor camera DE13, one of a batch of Technicolor cameras built in the UK by Newall Engineering.

It was an early star role for Belinda Lee, one of several "sensible girl" parts she played for Rank.

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