Stewart Granger

Rosamund John

Godfrey Tearle

Sophie Stewart

Cathleen Nesbitt

Margaret Vyner

John Laurie

Joan Maude

Mignon O'Doherty

Leslie Dwyer

Wylie Watson

Eric Micklewood

Joyce Grenfell

Ernest Thesiger

Brefni O'Rorke

Patric Curwen

Jenny Laird

Grace Arnold

Gordon Begg

Valentine Dunn

John Howard

Megs Jenkins

David Keir

Aubrey Mallalieu

Jack May

Paul Merton

Janette Scott

Ben Williams

Joan Young

Maurice Elvey

Robert Krasker

Elizabeth Baron

Frederick Wilson

Monica Dickens

John Greenwood

Leslie Howard

Phil C. Samuel

William N. Boyle

Vincent Permane

Alex Vetchinsky

Muir Mathieson

Jack Hildyard

Drama

Romance

The Lamp Still Burns

Two Cities Films

United Kingdom

CinemaSerf

Sadly, this film - though doubtless intended as a tribute to the magnificent, dedicated stoicism of those nurses working tirelessly amidst the horrors of the London blitz - delivers little more than a rather downbeat melodrama about an injured man (Stewart Granger) who can't quite decide which woman he loves and wants to marry! The pace of that romance borders on the turgid, and aside, perhaps, from Cathleen Nesbitt as the fastidious matron, the characterisations are all pretty shallow and stereotypical. It isn't that those nurses depicted shouldn't be applauded - their sterling efforts deserve the highest praise and appreciation; it's just that this is a bit too gloopy and sentimental and depicts neither the grit nor bravery of the ladies (and, to be fair, the doctors) in question with much ... oomph!

English