This is what I love about you tube,I got here from watching "the avengers" with diana rigg and actually "This is my life" with the male actor from it.That nurse with the dark hsair in the start looks like Debra Winger but I know it isn"t her.
This scathing brilliant black comedy directed by Arthur Hiller was written by the supremely talented Paddy Chayefsky, who five years later would do to broadcast news with "Network" what he did here to the practice of medicine in America; how little has changed over the intervening nearly forty years.
@AJNorth You're much too well-informed not to know that Paddy Chayefsy also wrote the Americanization of Emily but if you didn't know it Emily is also available on YouTube. My favorite gripe is that either Hospital or Emily would be critically declared "too dialogue driven" today. The speeches given to James Garner, Julie Andrews, George Scott and Diana Rigg are a triumph of the English language. Chayefsy was a genius.
@yamsid Thanks, and I quite agree that "Emily" was also a scathing satire. Paddy Chayefsky was a superbly-gifted writer, a quality in cinema that is increasingly missed. The opening voice-over in "The Hospital" sets the tone perfectly (the voice, incidentally, was Chayefsky's).
"The Hospital" and "Network" earned him his second and third Oscars; his first was for "Marty" (1955), adapted from the television production that he had written two years earlier (the film won a total of four Oscars).
@AJNorth I am getting old because I didn't even think about Marty, a bitter sweet masterpiece. Been awhile since I saw Ernest Borgnine earn his well-deserved Academy Award but the early TV movie with Rod Steiger is on the net. Darned if I can remember where.
It is absolute perfect timing to find this posted as the health-care debate rages on and the emerging bill proves to be little more than a profit protection plan for the health-care cartel, with our "public servants" having distinguished themselves by giving the Oldest Profession a bad name.
What hospital did they film in?
adelgado75 1 month ago
so under-rated... this is the movie about the mankind and humanity!!!
awesome movie, my favorite!!!
33eriksson 2 months ago
Love this film! George C. Scott nailed the role! I can't imagine any other actor as Dr. Bock!
dogloverNV 6 months ago
Good flick
sevenlemon 7 months ago
Great to see this movie again - as with alot of Paddy Chayefskys writing it was 10 years ahead of its time
duckwrangler 8 months ago
Oh, fascinating. I did not know this. I became a fan of Scott with "Hardcore", he’s great. I would like to see if this has been dubbed in Italian.
tht707 9 months ago
HOLYHELL, i'd never heard of this movie...
Why isnt this on stars, or HBO?
hmmm, to dan liberal for one thing.
popceed 10 months ago
Thanks very much for posting this.
OscarCommie 1 year ago
Just relax and enjoy the comedy of life itself.
Dimy761 1 year ago
This is what I love about you tube,I got here from watching "the avengers" with diana rigg and actually "This is my life" with the male actor from it.That nurse with the dark hsair in the start looks like Debra Winger but I know it isn"t her.
Latebargirl 1 year ago 8
@Latebargirl The nurse was probably Stockard Channing
The1962driftingaway 2 weeks ago
This scathing brilliant black comedy directed by Arthur Hiller was written by the supremely talented Paddy Chayefsky, who five years later would do to broadcast news with "Network" what he did here to the practice of medicine in America; how little has changed over the intervening nearly forty years.
AJNorth 2 years ago 2
@AJNorth You're much too well-informed not to know that Paddy Chayefsy also wrote the Americanization of Emily but if you didn't know it Emily is also available on YouTube. My favorite gripe is that either Hospital or Emily would be critically declared "too dialogue driven" today. The speeches given to James Garner, Julie Andrews, George Scott and Diana Rigg are a triumph of the English language. Chayefsy was a genius.
yamsid 1 year ago
@yamsid Thanks, and I quite agree that "Emily" was also a scathing satire. Paddy Chayefsky was a superbly-gifted writer, a quality in cinema that is increasingly missed. The opening voice-over in "The Hospital" sets the tone perfectly (the voice, incidentally, was Chayefsky's).
"The Hospital" and "Network" earned him his second and third Oscars; his first was for "Marty" (1955), adapted from the television production that he had written two years earlier (the film won a total of four Oscars).
AJNorth 1 year ago
@AJNorth I am getting old because I didn't even think about Marty, a bitter sweet masterpiece. Been awhile since I saw Ernest Borgnine earn his well-deserved Academy Award but the early TV movie with Rod Steiger is on the net. Darned if I can remember where.
yamsid 1 year ago
It is absolute perfect timing to find this posted as the health-care debate rages on and the emerging bill proves to be little more than a profit protection plan for the health-care cartel, with our "public servants" having distinguished themselves by giving the Oldest Profession a bad name.
AJNorth 2 years ago 10
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omg, they killed 'pappa themadine'?
springloadedchicken 2 years ago
Thanks for uploading! I've got it on DVD. It's a well made movie with a powerful punch!
avengergurl1 2 years ago 2