The Hospital Movie Review 1971

Cult favorite providing savage, unrelentingly sarcastic look at the workings of a chaotic metropolitan hospital beset by murders, witchdoctors, madness, and plain ineptitude. Scott's suicidal chief surgeon Herbert Bock, who falls in love with free-spirited Barbara Drummond (Riggs), a patient's daughter.

Distribution

CBS/Fox Video, 1330 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019, Phone: (212)373-4800, Toll-free: 800-800-4369, Fax: (212)373-4803, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS
Running time 101 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Black Comedy, Hospitals & Medicine, Doctors & Nurses, Satire & Parody, Witchcraft, Sanity Check

Screenplay

Paddy Chayefsky

Cast

George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes, Stockard Channing, Nancy Marchand, Richard Dysart, Stephen Elliott, Rehn Scofield, Katherine Helmond, Roberts Blossom

Cinematography

Victor Kemper

Director

Arthur Hiller

Producer

United Artists

Awards

Oscars 1971: Story & Screenplay; Berlin Intl. Film Fest. 1972: Silver Prize; British Acad. 1972: Screenplay; Golden Globes 1972: Screenplay, Natl. Film Reg. 1995;; Writers Guild 1971: Orig. Screenplay.