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Movie: The Hospital (1971)

• Director: Arthur Hiller
• Release Date: 29 September 1972 (Denmark)
• Run Time: 103 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy , Drama  
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, sexual content and drug references.

Tagline: Madness, Murder and Malpractice.  

Trivia: According to TCM host Robert Osborne, Paddy Chayefsky passed on having Walter Matthau or Burt Lancaster in George C. Scott’s role, and either Jane Fonda, Ali MacGraw, or Candice Bergen in Diana Rigg’s.
 

Goofs: Crew or equipment visible: About ten minutes into the movie, as the characters walk down a hospital hallway, followed by the camera, a technician and his microphone are revealed behind a nurse’s cart. The camera then tightens the shot around the actors.
 

“Herbert Block 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. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>”