The Hospital
Summary:
Directed by Arthur Hiller from the second of three Academy Award-winning screenplays by Paddy Chayefsky, The Hospital is a black comedy centering on Dr. Herbert Bock (George C. Scott), a bitter, suicidal surgeon. While patients at the hospital die left and right due to the extreme carelessness and ineptness of the staff that surrounds him, the lonely Bock finds himse... Full Summary >>
Cast:
George C. Scott - (Dr. Herbert Bock)
Diana Rigg - (Barbara Drummond)
Barnard Hughes - (Mr. Drummond)
Nancy Marchand - (Head Nurse)
Stephen Elliott - (Hospital Executive)
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Review:
A piece of early '70s social commentary and a de facto warm-up for Network (1976), writer Paddy Chayefsky takes on the medical system in The Hospital (1971). Devised as a satire that could later pass for social realism in an HMO-ruled culture, the matter-of-fact pre-credits voice-over accounting how medical malfeasance resulted in an empty... Continue >>
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