The Hospital
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(For the private members club in London, see The Hospital (UK))
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| Directed by | Arthur Hiller |
| Produced by | Howard Gottfried Jack Grossberg |
| Written by | Paddy Chayefsky |
| Starring | George C. Scott Diana Rigg |
| Music by | Morris Surdin |
| Cinematography | Victor J. Kemper |
| Editing by | Eric Albertson |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | December 14, 1971 |
| Running time | 103 min. |
| Language | English |
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The Hospital is a 1971 black comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring George C. Scott as Dr. Herbert Bock. The screenplay was written by Paddy Chayefsky. The film should not be confused with a 1970 documentary called Hospital, the 2006 Taiwanese television drama The Hospital (白色巨塔), or with a 1985 film of the same name.
The film tells the story of approximately 24 hours in the life of Dr. Bock, the Chief of Medicine at a large Manhattan teaching hospital. Bock is suffering from a midlife 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. The supporting cast includes Diana Rigg (Barbara), Barnard Hughes (Patient Drummond), Richard A. Dysart (Dr. Welbeck), Stephen Elliott (Dr. Sundstrom), Nancy Marchand (Mrs. Christie), Roberts Blossom (Patient Guernsey) and Stockard Channing in her (unaccredited) feature film debut as an emergency room nurse.
It won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (Paddy Chayefsky). Scott, notwithstanding 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.
The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
[edit] Cast
George C. Scott as Dr. Herbert 'Herb' Bock
Diana Rigg as Miss Barbara Drummond
Barnard Hughes as Edmund Drummond
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)
