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Florence Nightingale

5.7 140 mins Drama   TV Movie   1985
Cypress Point Productions  
Director(s): Daryl Duke

This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers, who are victims of the Crimean war, she finds herself very unwelcome and faces great opposition for her new way of thinking. However through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly becomes known as 'The Lady with the Lamp', the caring nurse whose shadow soldiers kiss.

Casts of Florence Nightingale

Jaclyn Smith

as Florence Nightingale

Claire Bloom

as Fanny Nightingale

Timothy Dalton

as Richard Milnes

Timothy West

as Russell

Peter McEnery

as Sidney Herbert

Stephan Chase

as Dr. Sutherland

Jeremy Brett

as William Nightingale

Jeremy Child

as Dr. Hall

Brian Cox

as Dr. McGregor

Lesley Dunlop

as Joanne

Michael Elwyn

as Dr. Menzies

Julian Fellowes

as Charles Bracebrige

Richenda Carey

as Committee Lady

Aimée Delamain

as Older Committee Lady

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