The Feminine Touch * (1956, George Baker, Belinda Lee, Delphi Lawrence, Adrienne Corri) – Classic Movie Review 11,917

George Baker finds himself playing a handsome doctor in a nurse film, The Feminine Touch (1956).

Director Pat Jackson’s 1956 film The Feminine Touch [The Gentle Touch] stars George Baker, Belinda Lee, Delphi Lawrence and Adrienne Corri, and is written by Ian McCormick.

Ealing Studios borrows the title of a 1941 American comedy for its tepid version of Sheila Mackay Russell’s novel A Lamp Is Heavy, a hospital soap opera about a querulous quintet of student nurses facing the usual clichéd tribulations of arduous training, awkward patients, strict matrons and troublesome boyfriends.

So what else is new? Jackson directs the dated material mundanely and the film fails to spark up much.

Also in the cast are Henryetta Edwards, Barbara Archer, Diana Wynyard, Mandy Miller, Dandy Nichols.

RIP George Baker (1931–2011). His films include The Intruder (1953), The Dam Busters (1955), The Ship That Died of Shame (1955), The Woman for Joe (1955), The Feminine Touch (1956), A Hill in Korea (1956), The Extra Day (1956), These Dangerous Years (1957), No Time for Tears (1957) and The Moonraker (1958). But he is best known on TV as Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.

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