Released:
1985-04-07

Overview:
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.

Director:
Daryl Duke

Runtime:
2h 20min

Genre:
Drama, TV Movie

• Cast:
• 
  Jaclyn Smith
  as
  Florence Nightingale
• 
  Claire Bloom
  as
  Fanny Nightingale
• 
  Timothy Dalton
  as
  Richard Milnes
• 
  Timothy West
  as
  Russell
• 
  Peter McEnery
  as
  Sidney Herbert