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The Hospital (1971) 7.1
Black comedy in which a suicidal doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital. Director:Arthur HillerWriter:Paddy Chayefsky (by) |
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Cast
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| George C. Scott | ... |
Dr.Herbert Bock
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| Diana Rigg | ... |
Barbara Drummond
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| Barnard Hughes | ... |
Drummond
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| Richard Dysart | ... |
Dr. Welbeck
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Stephen Elliott | ... |
Dr. Sundstrom
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Donald Harron | ... |
Milton Mead
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Andrew Duncan | ... |
William Mead
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| Nancy Marchand | ... |
Mrs. Christie
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Jordan Charney | ... |
Hitchcock
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| Roberts Blossom | ... |
Guernsey
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Lenny Baker | ... |
Dr. Schaefer
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Richard Hamilton | ... |
Dr. Ronald Casey
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Arthur Junaluska | ... |
Mr. Blacktree
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Kate Harrington | ... |
Nurse Dunne
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| Katherine Helmond | ... |
Marilyn Mead
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Herbert Bock is chief of medicine in a major teaching hospital. His wife has left him, he is impotent and his children have both disowned him. He is toying with the idea of suicide when patients begin dying, not from complications, but from the erroneous treatments the Hospital is giving them. People in the wrong beds are given wrong medicines, sent to operating theaters for incorrect surgery, and found in waiting rooms dead of natural causes. Barbara Drummond has come to take her comatose father back to the Sioux reservation where he operates a clinic and they each reach out to each other for emotional support, as a shadowy figure stalks the patients and staff of the hospital. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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31 August 1972 (Mexico) See more »Also Known As:
Right Smack Into the Wind See more »Company Credits
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Barnard Hughes appears in a dual role in this movie. In addition to his role as Drummond, he also plays (under make-up and hairpiece) hysterectomy surgeon Dr. Mallory. See more »Goofs
In the Emergency Room, the dead patient's eyes and head change positions between the time Mrs. Cushing and Dr. Spezio look at him. See more »Quotes
Herbert Bock: Now what in hell am I going to tell this boy Schaefer's parents? That a substitute nurse assassinated him because she couldn't tell the doctors from the patients on the floor?See more »
A profoundly disturbing character study more than anything, this film, masterfully written by Paddy Chayefsky, manages to convey such bitterness and disgust in it's point of view, it can not even be topped by the also Chayefsky stamped 'Network'.
Thinly disguised as a black comedy, this is the tale of Herbert Bock, whose family problems and working issues - the huge Manhattan hospital in which he works in is as civilized as a concentration camp - lead him to contemplate suicide.
Then, beautiful Diana Rigg - thee who knows Dame Diana solely as a Bond Girl, does not know her AT ALL - steps into the dreary settings, - Barbara, the character she perfectly portrays, is there to take her mentally ill father, which just happens to be a serial, gospel-bound, murderer, out of the madness of the hospital - , and into George C. Scott's seemingly frozen heart...
Events do not lead to a happy ending. Events do not lead to an ending at all... however, it exposes the never ending cycle life is reduced to. Joy, bliss... several feelings revolving one's own being, no matter what surrounds him... and all these several feelings leading you right back where you've started. It's like Chayefsky was trying to say how meaningless and plodding existing is...
If you can't understand anything I just said, you will, as soon as you hear the last line... "It's like p***ing in the wind... right, Herb?"...