There were a few nurse movies made in Britain in the 1950s - White Unicorn, The Feminine Touch. The novelty of this one is it's set in a children's hospital.
The cast includes Flora Robson, Sylvia Syms and Anna Neagle. The doctors include Anthony Quayle, Michael Hordern and George Baker plus Australia's own Alan White. Joan Sims and Richard O'Sullivan are in there.
Baker plays a love rat doctor who breaks Sym's heart.
Made by Associated British though you're likely to think it's a Rank movie.
Chipper. Nice colour. Episodic. Syms is plucky. But she never had the individuality of say Diana Dors. Some moments can't help but move such as the blind boy. The pantomime show sequence is random - it's as though the filmmakers lacked confidence in the material.
There's probably too many characters and plots - these sort of movies always work best when they focus on a few characters.
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