140 minutes
4/7/1985
This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies 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, who are victims of the Crimean war, she finds herself very unwelcome and faces great opposition for her new way of thinking. However through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly becomes known as 'The Lady with the Lamp', the caring nurse whose shadow soldiers kiss.
Jaclyn Smith
as Florence Nightingale
Claire Bloom
as Fanny Nightingale
Timothy Dalton
as Richard Milnes
Timothy West
as Russell
Peter McEnery
as Sidney Herbert
Stephan Chase
as Dr. Sutherland
Jeremy Brett
as William Nightingale
Jeremy Child
as Dr. Hall
Brian Cox
as Dr. McGregor
Lesley Dunlop
as Joanne
Michael Elwyn
as Dr. Menzies
Julian Fellowes
as Charles Bracebrige
Richenda Carey
as Committee Lady
Aimée Delamain
as Older Committee Lady