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    Hospital, The (1971)

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    This splendid black comedy stars George C Scott as Dr Bock, the Chief of Medicine in a large New York hospital who is investigating a recent spate of inexplicable deaths at the hospital.

    Trying to establish how one of his staff has been sedated and then killed by an overdose in place of one of the patients, Dr Bock shouts.

    His matron remains calm if defensive, blaming the whole thing on an over-complicated system. “Where do you train your nurses, matron?” he bellows, finally. “Dachau?”

    Bock is a suicidal, impotent alcoholic, his wife has left him, and his children aren’t speaking to him.

    His son is an alienated Maoist and his daughter has had three abortions and just been arrested for drug pushing. A typical prosperous American family, he explains laconically.

    In the midst of his investigations, he is romantically drawn to the much younger virility-restoring ex-nurse Barbara Drummond (Diana Rigg in her US film debut), whose father is a patient.

    The film takes swipes at fashionable radical premises. Buzzing like horse flies around the flanks of the already harassed organisation are a group of assorted activist objecting to the fact that the condemned buildings they live in are to become the site of a new clinic instead of new housing.

    Stockard Channing appears in her feature film debut as an uncredited nurse.

    The hospital seen in this movie was New York City’s vast Metropolitan Hospital Center. Filming took place on two floors of a new psychiatric centre which was under construction, and not due to start receiving patients until after the shooting had been completed.

    Dr Herbert Bock
    George C. Scott
    Barbara Drummond
    Diana Rigg
    Drummond/Dr Mallory
    Barnard Hughes
    Dr Welbeck
    Richard Dysart
    Dr Sundstrom
    Stephen Elliott
    Milton Mead
    Donald Harron
    William Mead
    Andrew Duncan
    Mrs Christie
    Nancy Marchand
    Hitchcock
    Jordan Charney
    Guernsey
    Roberts Blossom
    Dr Schaefer
    Lenny Baker
    Dr Ronald Casey
    Richard Hamilton
    Mr Blacktree
    Arthur Junaluska
    Nurse Dunne
    Kate Harrington
    Marilyn Mead
    Katherine Helmond
    Dr Einhorn
    David Hooks
    Mrs Cushing
    Frances Sternhagen
    Dr Brubaker
    Robert Walden
    Dr Spezio
    Rehn Scofield
    Dr Bock’s Secretary
    Carolyn Krigbaum

    Director
    Arthur Hiller

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