The Hospital (1971)
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.
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What critics compared The Hospital to
Director Tony Kaye ’s (“American History X”) tough movie owes a lot to Paddy Chayefsky ’s script for 1971’s “The Hospital” — which is perhaps too complimentary a comparison.
This is the first of the movie's garish set pieces, and it's particularly funny in a way that Paddy Chayefsky could be in his scripts for "The Hospital" and "Network."
If you’re looking for a raging, health-conscious idea movie for these times, try 1971’s The Hospital , from Paddy Chayefsky, the same man who wrote Network.
But Sorkin doesn’t pull off what, say, Paddy Chayefsky, in his scripts for such films as “Network” and “The Hospital,” achieved.
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But the pair are also captives of the genre dynamics in which they have chosen to utilize, and while both are doing their best Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky impersonations that doesn’t mean their motion picture has the power, grace or authority of something like Network or The Hospital .