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The Hospital
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 summaryThe 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. AwardsIt 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
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) External linksit:Anche i dottori ce l'hanno ru:???????? (?????) Source: Wikipedia | The above article is available under the GNU FDL. | Edit this article
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