This hospital insight is more thrilling and captivating than almost any thriller. It is documentary in character and as far as you can get from a soap opera, although it is thronged with stuff to make cheap TV entertainments, but the stuff here is handled professionally. There are goofs, but those responsible have to stand for them and take the consequences of a demission, because perfection and discipline has to be absolute, if nothing is to go wrong. When something goes wrong here it is nobody's fault, the one casualty is due to no one's fault, while more serious faults could have had even worse consequences. At the same time it is a very modern drama dealing with the problem of penicillin resistance, and doctor Marriner is waging his life on the research into some possible remedy of this problem. Doctor Sophie Dean has the longest and most sleepless night in her life as a consequence, while both she and the young green nurse Petula Clark manage to cope with the arduous stress of fighting death. It is a most impressive film educating the audience by offering a keen and intimate insight into the daily drama of any hospital.
