Florence Nightingale [videorecording] / Cypress Point Productions [and] Sony Pictures Television ; produced by Ron Carr and Tony Richmond ; story by Ivan Moffat ; teleplay by Ivan Moffat and Rose Leiman Goldemberg ; directed by Daryl Duke.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 27207 | Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentPublication details: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2009]Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 143592925X
- 9781435929258
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Main Library | DVD | DRAMA Florence | Available | 33111005685595 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Jaclyn Smith is a curious choice to play the title character in the made-for-TV biopic Florence Nightingale. This fact, however, never enters into the consciousness of the viewer, thanks to Smith's excellent performance. Some liberties are taken with the details of the life of "The Lady with the Lamp," notably the addition of a largely speculative romance between Florence and her young swain (Timothy Dalton). The best scenes--and the most accurate--occur during the Crimean War sequences and during Nightingale's strenuous efforts to form the Red Cross. Co-produced by Tony Richmond, Jaclyn Smith's husband, Florence Nightingale debuted April 7, 1985. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Originally broadcast as a television motion picture in 1985.
Title from container.
Jaclyn Smith, Claire Bloom, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West, Peter McEnery, Stephan Chase, Ann Thornton, Jeremy Brett.
Florence Nightingale is an aristocratic woman who defied 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 of the Crimean War, she was scorned by her community and was faced with great opposition for her new way of thinking. However, through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly became known as 'The Lady with the Lamp,' the caring nurse whose shadow softened those who had been wounded in battle.
Not rated.
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1); Dolby Digital.
This DVD disc is copy protected.
Closed-captioned.