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The Lamp Still Burns is a British film of genre Drama directed by Maurice Elvey with Rosamund John

The Lamp Still Burns (1943)

The Lamp Still Burns
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Length 1h27
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Genres Drama,    War,    Documentary,    Romance
Rating61% 3.0908353.0908353.0908353.0908353.090835

The Lamp Still Burns is a 1943 British drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Rosamund John, Stewart Granger and Godfrey Tearle. Its plot concerns a woman architect who changes careers to become a nurse.

It was based on the novel One Pair of Feet by Monica Dickens. Like the novel, the film is a plea for better conditions in English hospitals - and, more specifically, for better treatment of England's selfless nurses.

The Lamp Still Burns was produced by actor Leslie Howard, who was killed in the service of his country not long after the film was released.

Synopsis

During the Second World War, Laurence Rains (Stewart Granger) is annoyed when female architect Hilary Clarke (Rosamund John) insists he must enlarge the first aid room in his factory to satisfy government regulations, despite having the best safety record in the country. He encounters her once again, now a nurse trainee assisting a doctor treat one of his employees. He finds out that Clarke only became an architect to please her father, who had no sons to follow in his profession. When she saw how her young assistant at her firm, seriously injured in a traffic accident, was tended to by the nurses, she found her true vocation. Pamela Siddell (Margaret Vyner), a violinist and Rains' fiancee, sees his attraction to Clarke.

Actors

Rosamund John

(Hilary Clarke)Stewart Granger

(Laurence Rains)Godfrey Tearle

(Sir Marshall Freyne)Cathleen Nesbitt

(The Matron)Margaret Vyner

(Pamela Siddell)
And :
John Laurie
Joan Maude
Leslie Dwyer
Wylie Watson
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