Britannia Hospital is the last of director Lindsay Anderson's Mick Travis trilogy. It started with If . . . a once extremely controversial film that updated and Anglophiled Zero for Conduct, continued with O Lucky Man the daring utterly off-beat, dryly cynical and satirical 70s classic that is finally FINALLY coming to DVD in the next few months and completed it with Britannia Hospital. What all three films have in common is the character of Mick Travis created by and played by Malcolm McDowall. In Britannia Hospital however, Mick is a supporting character and while an important...
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