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Release Date: 1971

Cast: George C. Scott, Barnard Hughes, Andrew Duncan, Nancy Marchand, Frances Sternhagen, Roberts Blossom, Stockard Channing, Lenny Baker, Richard Hamilton, Stephen Elliott, Katherine Helmond, Don Harron ...MORE

Cast: George C. Scott, Barnard Hughes, Andrew Duncan, Nancy Marchand, Frances Sternhagen, Roberts Blossom, Stockard Channing, Lenny Baker, Richard Hamilton, Stephen Elliott, Katherine Helmond, Don Harron, Jordan Charney, Diana Rigg ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Parody, Comedy, Satire, Medical fiction, Black comedy

The Hospital is a 1971 satirical 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. The film is set in a teaching hospital in Manhattan and centers around Dr. Bock (George C Scott), the Chief of Medicine, whose life is in disarray: his wife has left him, his children don't talk to him, and his once-beloved teaching hospital is falling apart. The hospital suffers from the sudden deaths of two doctors and a nurse. These are attributed to coincidental... MORE

The Hospital is a 1971 satirical 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. The film is set in a teaching hospital in Manhattan and centers around Dr. Bock (George C Scott), the Chief of Medicine, whose life is in disarray: his wife has left him, his children don't talk to him, and his once-beloved teaching hospital is falling apart. The hospital suffers from the sudden deaths of two doctors and a nurse. These are attributed to coincidental or unavoidable failures to provide accurate treatment. At the same time, administrators must deal with a protest against the hospital's annexation of an adjacent and decrepit apartment building. The annexation is to be used for a drug rehabilitation center; the building's current occupants demand that the hospital find them replacement housing before the building is demolished despite the building being condemned sometime before. As Dr. Bock complains of impotence and has thoughts of suicide, he falls for Barbara Drummond (Diana Rigg), a patient's daughter who both came from Mexico for her father's LESS