Britannia Hospital is a 1982 black comedy film by British director Lindsay Anderson which targets the National Health Service and contemporary British society. It was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival and Fantasporto. Britannia Hospital is the final part of Anderson's critically acclaimed trilogy of films, written by David Sherwin, that follow the adventures of Mick Travis as he travels through a strange and sometimes surreal Britain. From his days at boarding school in if. to his journey from coffee salesman to film star in O Lucky Man! , Travis' adventures finally come to an end... in Britannia Hospital which sees Mick as a muckraking reporter investigating the bizarre activities of Professor Millar, played by Graham Crowden, whom he had had a run in with in O Lucky Man. All three films have characters in common. Some of the characters from if...., that didn't turn up in O Lucky Man, returned for Britannia Hospital. The absurdities of human behaviour as we move into the Twenty-first Century are too extreme — and too dangerous — to permit us the luxury of sentimentalism or tears.
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| Release date: | 1982 |
| Directed by: | Lindsay Anderson |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 116 Minutes |
| Producer: | Clive Parsons, Davina Belling |
| Music by: | Alan Price |
| Screenplay by: | David Sherwin |
| Genre: | Comedy |