The Hospital Page #10

Synopsis: Herbert Bock, the chief of medicine in a New York City teaching hospital, is contemplating suicide; he's impotent, his wife has left him, and his children aren't speaking to him. His hospital is also suffering from a recent spate of inexplicable deaths. In the midst of these setbacks, Bock is romantically drawn to the much younger Barbara, whose father is a patient. As Barbara restores Bock's will to live, it turns out that the hospital deaths are murders.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Arthur Hiller
Production: United Artists
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
PG-13
Year:
1971
103 min
1,157 Views


- Where's the camera?

Would you be cool, man?

Fourteen people got arrested

for living in their homes...

- which you people threw them out of.

- Right on.

Now we are gonna arrest you.

We gonna hold you hostage,

and we ain't letting you go.

We, the members

of the Doctors' Liberation Committee...

indict this hospital for the criminal neglect

of the community in which it is situated.

We demand a dissolution

of the governing and executive boards...

What are you gonna do

about those 14 ghetto people?

I am not going to do anything

about anything.

You are.

If you want to take over this hospital,

you take it over.

- We will!

- You run it!

I am finished. I quit.

You run it. You pay the bills!

- You fight the city.

- We will.

You fight the state. You fight the unions.

You fight the community.

You think you can do a better job, you do it.

Now, I am finished! I quit!

It's all yours.

Let those who are in Judea

flee to the mountains.

The age is closed.

The season of the seventh seal is at hand!

The age is closed.

Dr. Welbeck is dead.

They thought he was you.

I know.

We must arrange to have his body

shipped to my Apache village...

where we'll bury him with full tribal rites.

- We must hurry.

- In a day or two, someone'll ask...

"Whatever happened to Dr. Welbeck?"

It'll be assumed he absconded to Brazil

to join his partner...

the eminent orthopedic surgeon,

Dr. Noel Hogan.

Welbeck, too, was mislaid...

overlooked, forgotten to death.

I'm not going.

The hospital's coming apart.

I can't walk out on it when it's coming apart.

Someone has to be responsible.

Everybody's hitting the road...

running away, running to the hills.

Someone's got to be responsible.

Kennedy Airport.

You've got a 2:
30 flight to make.

You going back in?

Yep.

It's like pissing in the wind, right?

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Paddy Chayefsky

Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay. more…

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