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").
The film tells the story of life in a teaching hospital in Manhattan and centers ...
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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 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").
The film tells the story of life in a teaching hospital in Manhattan and centers around Dr Bock (George C Scott), the Chief of Medicine, his 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.
Meanwhile the teaching hospital suffers from a number of bizarre deaths among both the doctors and staff of the hospital, all of which help to drive Dr Bock even closer to the edge of insanity.
As Dr Bock teeters on the brink of a nervous breakdown, he falls for a patient's seductively charming daughter (Diana Rigg), who not only gives him something to...
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