The Hospital is a 1971 black comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring George C. Scott as Dr. Herbert Bock. The script was written by Paddy Chayefsky, who was awarded the 1972 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (at that time qualified as " Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced").

Plot summary

The film tells the story of approximately twenty-four hours in the life of Dr. Bock, the Chief of Medicine at a large Manhattan teaching hospital. Bock is suffering from a mid-life crisis which has him on the brink of suicide, but is diverted from trying to solve the conundrum of how to make it look accidental (for insurance purposes) by a series of bizarre deaths among the doctors and staff of the hospital.

Awards

It won the Oscar, the Golden Globe, the WGA and the BAFTA for Best Screen-play for Chayefsky's script. Scott, not withstanding his rejection of the Oscar he was voted the previous year for Patton, was nominated for Best Actor, but the gold statuette went to Gene Hackman for The French Connection.

In 1995, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Cast

• George C. Scott as Dr. Herbert 'Herb' Bock
• Diana Rigg as Miss Barbara Drummond
• Robert Walden as Dr. Brubaker
• Barnard Hughes as Edmund Drummond [Also played Dr. Mallory (uncredited)]
• Richard A. Dysart as Dr. Welbeck
• Stephen Elliott as Dr. John Sundstrom
• Andrew Duncan as William 'Willie' Mead
• Donald Harron as Dr. Milton Mead
• Nancy Marchand as Mrs. Christie, Head of Nurses
• Jordan Charney as Hitchcock, Hospital Adm.
• Roberts Blossom as Guernsey
• Lenny Baker as Dr. Howard Schaefer
• Richard Hamilton as Dr. Ronald Casey
• Arthur Junaluska as Mr. Blacktree
• Kate Harrington as Nurse Dunne
• Katherine Helmond as Mrs. Marilyn Mead
• David Hooks as Dr. Joe Einhorn
• Frances Sternhagen as Mrs. Sally Cushing
• Stockard Channing as E.R. Nurse (uncredited)

Quotations

"You're greedy, unfeeling, inept, indifferent, self-inflating, and unconscionably profitable. Aside from that, I have nothing against you. I'm sure you play a helluva game of golf" (Dr. Bock to Dr. Welbeck)

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