The Hospital ( Right Smack Into the Wind )

The Hospital (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Right Smack Into the Wind
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
101 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1971 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Arthur Hiller

Written By:
Paddy Chayefsky

Actors:
George C. Scott ..... Dr. Bock
Diana Rigg ..... Barbara
Barnard Hughes ..... Drummond / Dr. Mallory
Richard Dysart ..... Dr. Welbeck
Stephen Elliott ..... Dr. Sundstrom
Andrew Duncan ..... William Mead
Donald Harron ..... Milton Mead
Nancy Marchand ..... Mrs. Christie
Jordan Charney ..... Hitchcock
Roberts Blossom ..... Guernsey
Lenny Baker ..... Dr. Schaefer
Richard Hamilton ..... Dr. Ronald Casey
Arthur Junaluska ..... Mr. Blacktree
Kate Harrington ..... Nurse Dunne
Katherine Helmond ..... Marilyn Mead

Synopsis:

Directed by Arthur Hiller from the second of three Academy Award-winning screenplays by Paddy Chayefsky, The Hospital is a black comedy centering on Dr. Herbert Bock (George C. Scott), a bitter, suicidal surgeon. While patients at the hospital die left and right due to the extreme carelessness and ineptness of the staff that surrounds him, the lonely Bock finds himself falling for Barbara (Diana Rigg), the daughter of Edmund (Barnard Hughes), a patient. Meanwhile, a mysterious killer has begun stalking the hospital, taking out staff members. In addition to Chayefsky's Oscar win, The Hospital garnered a Best Actor nomination for Scott, who lost to Gene Hackman for The French Connection.

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 21 September, 2011.

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