The Hospital
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The Hospital is a 1971 black comedy film in which a suicidal doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.
- Directed by Arthur Hiller. Written by Paddy Chayefsky.
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[edit] Dr. Bock
- The incompetence in this hospital is absolutely radiant... I mean, where do you train your nurses, Mrs. Christie, Dachau!?
- Now what in hell am I going to tell this boy Schaefer's parents? That a substitute nurse assassinated him because she couldn't tell the doctors from the patients on the floor?
- You know, when I say impotent, I don't mean merely limp. When I say impotent, I mean I've lost even my desire to work. That's a hell of a lot more primal passion than sex. I've lost my reason for being... my purpose. The only thing I ever truly loved.
- It is all rubbish isn't it. I mean... transplants, anti-bodies, we can produce birth ectogenetically, we can clone people like carrots, and half the kids in this ghetto haven't been inoculated for polio. We have established an enormous medical entity and we're sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal, nothing! The whole goddamn wretched world, strangulating in front of our eyes.
[edit] Barbara Drummond
- [to Dr. Bock] It's hard for me to take your despair very seriously, Doctor. You obviously enjoy it so much.
[edit] Dr. Mead
- There are no private rooms available. If they brought in Jesus Christ fresh off the cross I couldn't get him a private room!
[edit] Edmund Drummond
- This is Dr. Ives. He's in the Nephrology Lab. I was in there a little while ago, and he was suddenly taken ill, and I thought I'd better get him over here right away. He had at that time perhaps an hour to live. Prompt treatment would have saved his life. As a staff doctor, he was seen without preliminaries... His vital signs were taken, an electrocardiogram... which revealed occasional ventricular premature contractions. An intern took his history... and then he was promptly... simply... forgotten to death.
[edit] Dialogue
- Barbara: I have a thing about middle-aged men.
- Dr. Bock: I admire your candor.
- Barbara: You've been admiring a lot more than that.
- Barbara: We could really use you down there, you know there's a curiously high incidence of TB. You would be a doctor again, Herb. You would be necessary again. If you love me, I don't see what other choice you have?
- Dr. Bock: What do you mean if I love you? I raped you in a suicidal rage, how do we get to love and children all the sudden?
[edit] Taglines
- Behind the lab coat beats the heart of a man who's been pushed to the edge.
- Madness, Murder and Malpractice.
- Watch them operate!
- I may be crazy, but I think I've operated on the wrong patient.
[edit] Cast
- George C. Scott - Dr. Herbert "Herb" Bock
- Diana Rigg - Miss Barbara Drummond
- Robert Walden - Dr. Brubaker
- Barnard Hughes - Edmund Drummond (and an uncredited role as Dr. Mallory, the OB/GYN who discovers he's got the wrong patient.)
- Richard A. Dysart - Dr. Welbeck
- Stephen Elliott| - Dr. John Sundstrom
- Andrew Duncan - William "Willie" Mead
- Donald Harron - Dr. Milton Mead
- Nancy Marchand - Mrs. Christie, Head of Nurses
- Jordan Charney - Hitchcock, Hospital Administration
- Roberts Blossom - Guernsey
- Lenny Baker - Dr. Howard Schaefer
- Richard Hamilton| - Dr. Ronald Casey
- Arthur Junaluska - Mr. Blacktree
- Kate Harrington| - Nurse Dunne
- Katherine Helmond - Mrs. Marilyn Mead
- David Hooks - Dr. Joe Einhorn
- Frances Sternhagen - Mrs. Sally Cushing
- Stockard Channing - E.R. Nurse
[edit] External links
- The Hospital quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- The Hospital at Rotten Tomatoes
