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    No Time for Tears (1957)

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    Made in colour in the wake of the success of ITV’s Emergency – Ward 10, No Time For Tears is virtually plotless with an all-star cast of fine British players from the great English classic era.

    The film’s episodic story follows the career of young, impressionable probationary nurse, Margaret Collier (Sylvia Syms) and the many trials and tribulations of her chosen profession at the (fictitious) Mayfield Children’s Hospital.

    A side story has Margaret trying (unsuccessfully) to snare handsome confirmed bachelor anaesthetist Dr Nigel Barnes (George Baker).

    Anna Neagle is wonderful as the serene but briskly efficient hospital Matron; Flora Robson is Sister Birch; Anthony Quayle is the kind and gentle head doctor, Dr Seagrave; Michael Hordern is the curmudgeonly-but-kindhearted head surgeon, Marryat, and a young Joan Hickson plays the no-nonsense Sister Duckworth. Alan White plays the sympathetic surgical registrar, Dr Hugh Storey.

    Matron Hammond finds herself especially drawn to two terribly neglected children whose home life so appals her that she feels bound to take drastic action.

    And so we follow the fortunes – or misfortunes – of George (Christopher Witty) and Cathy (Adrienne Posta in her movie debut) Harris and their problem parents (Victor Brooks and Angela Baddeley).

    Another story follows Bridie McKenna (Judith Stott), a pretty girl of 15 who longs to dance but cannot walk normally because her foot has been twisted since infancy.

    She presents quite a problem to Dr Seagrave, who finds himself at loggerheads with her mother over the question of an operation. And Bridie also happens to have fallen in love with a National Service boy, which doesn’t make life any easier for her.

    There are also the stories of young Tommy (Jonathan Ley), paralysed and blind, for whom Nurse Margaret develops a very deep affection, and a pair of twins who are so identical that the hospital is often in turmoil as a result – such as in a near case of mistaken appendectomy.

    Location filming took place at the Seafield Children’s Hospital in Ayr, Scotland.

    Nurse Margaret Collier
    Sylvia Syms
    Matron Eleanor Hammond
    Anna Neagle
    Dr Graham Seagrave
    Anthony Quayle
    Dr Nigel Barnes
    George Baker
    Dr Hugh Storey
    Alan White
    Dr Marian Cornish
    Daphne Anderson
    Head Surgeon Marryat
    Michael Hordern
    Sister Birch
    Flora Robson
    Sister Duckworth
    Joan Hickson
    Sister Willis
    Sophie Stewart
    Sister Davies
    Patricia Marmont
    Theatre Sister
    Rosalie Crutchley
    Sister O’Malley
    Joan Sims
    Mrs Harris
    Angela Baddeley
    Mr Harris
    Victor Brooks
    George Harris
    Christopher Witty
    Cathy Harris
    Adrienne Posta
    Bridie McKenna
    Judith Stott
    Dobbie the Porter
    George Rose
    Tommy
    Jonathan Ley
    Lawrie
    Jessica Cairns
    Jenny
    Carla Challoner
    Peter
    Christopher Frost

    Director
    Cyril Frankel

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