Hospital (The)
- Director: Arthur Hiller
- Writer: Paddy Chayefsky
- Producer: Howard Gottfried; Jack Grossberg
CGiii Comment
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.
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Cast & Characters
George C. Scott as Dr. Herbert Bock;
Diana Rigg as Barbara Drummond;
Barnard Hughes as Drummond;
Richard Dysart as Dr. Welbeck;
Stephen Elliott as Dr. Sundstrom;
Donald Harron as Milton Mead;
Andrew Duncan as William Mead;
Nancy Marchand as Mrs. Christie;
Jordan Charney as Hitchcock;
Roberts Blossom as Guernsey;
Lenny Baker as Dr. Schaefer;
Richard Hamilton as Dr. Ronald Casey;
Arthur Junaluska as Mr. Blacktree;
Kate Harrington as Nurse Dunne;
Katherine Helmond as Marilyn Mead