The Feminine Touch (1956 film)

The Feminine Touch
UK quad format cinema poster
Directed by Pat Jackson
Produced by Michael Balcon, Jack Rix
Screenplay by Iain MacCormick
Based on A Lamp Is Heavy
by Sheila Mackay Russell
Starring George Baker
Belinda Lee
Delphi Lawrence
Music by Clifton Parker
Cinematography Paul Beeson
Edited by Peter Bezencenet
Production
company
Distributed by J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors
Release date
  • 27 March 1956 (1956-03-27) (UK)
Running time
 91 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

The Feminine Touch is a 1956 British drama film directed by Pat Jackson and starring George Baker, Belinda Lee and Delphi Lawrence. The film is based on the bestselling novel A Lamp Is Heavy by Canadian former nurse Sheila Mackay Russell,[1] and consequently it was released as A Lamp Is Heavy in Canada, while it was given the title The Gentle Touch in the United States, when it was released there in December 1957.[2]

Plot

The film follows 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.

Main cast

Canadian poster, with the title A Lamp is Heavy.

References

  1. ↑ Sanderson, Kay (1999). 200 Remarkable Alberta Women. Calgary: Famous Five Foundation. p. 99.
  2. ↑ IMDb: The Feminine Touch – release info Linked 2015-05-15


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