Movie: "Casualty 1906"
| Release Date: | Jan 2006 |
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| Genre: | Drama |
| Runtime: | 60 min. |
| Cast: | Tim Baker (Begging Boy) Paul Brightwell (Mr. Hills) Nigel Cooke (Dr. Burgess) Dorothy Duffy (Nurse Rafferty) Bella Emberg (Mrs. Hard Up) Nicholas Farrell (Sydney Holland) Ronnie Fox (Policeman) Fiona Gillies (Minnie Piatkov) Colin Heber-Percy (Gould) Rebecca Johnson (Sister Spencer) Hattie Ladbury (Miss Kenneally) Elliot Levey (Abe Goldman) Cherie Lunghi (Matron Eva Luckes) John Maude (Sailor) Tamzin Merchant (Probationer Eastwood) Cathy Murphy (Mrs. Sarah Hills) Connor Quilty (Teddy) Tom Riley (Dr. James Walton) Sarah Smart (Nurse Ada Russell) Hywel Simons (Dr. Lawes) David Troughton (Hurry Fenwick) Katie Ventress (Nurse Mary Green) Jason Watkins (Ernest Wilson) Lyall B. Watson (Hard Up) Antonia Willans (Polly) Mike Lockley (Doctor) |
Storyline: In 1906 London, the casualty room of the London Hospital deals with a wide variety of cases. As a charity hospital, they refuse no one and are also located in the East End where the working poor are in the majority. The cases include a man whose tried to take his own life; a young boy, Teddy, with rickets; and a Russian immigrant and supposed anarchist, Abraham Goldman, who was beaten by the police. Mr. Wilson is a pioneering radiologist and has been amazing everyone with his revealing use of x-rays. He's paying a heavy price however. Nurse Mary Green is dismissed because of her relationship with a doctor. When Nurse Ada Russell is seen in public with Dr. James Wilson by a young colleague, Probationer Eastwood, she now fears for her own future. When Matron Luckes discusses the situation with Ada, she makes a surprising offer. The hospital has to battle an outbreak of infection in one of the wards.
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