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The Hospital
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- For the private members club in London, see The Hospital (UK).
- For the TV series in Taiwan, see The Hospital (TV series).
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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 |
| IMDb profile | |
The Hospital is an Academy Award winning 1971 black comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring George C. Scott as Dr. Herbert Bock. The script was written by Paddy Chayefsky, which was awarded the 1972 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (at that time qualified as " Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced").
The film should not be confused with a 1970 documentary called Hospital, the 2006 Taiwanese television drama The Hospital (The Hospital (TV series)), 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.
It won the Oscar, the Golden Globe, the WGA and the BAFTA for Best Screenplay for Chayefsky's script. 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.
- George C. Scott as Dr. Herbert 'Herb' Bock
- Diana Rigg as Miss Barbara Drummond
- Robert Walden as Dr. Brubaker
- 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)
