The Hospital USED MGM/UA Burton Gilliam (Thunderbolt and Lightfoot)

Burton Gilliam (Thunderbolt and Lightfoot) and John Steadman (White Lightning)

Howard Duff & Robert Nichols

Daniel Lee and of course Johnnie To

it’s an x-ray of modern man’s psychic desolation

The Hospital USED MGM/UA Burton Gilliam (Thunderbolt and Lightfoot)THE HOSPITAL At a rundown Manhattan teaching hospital, chief of staff Herb Bock (George C. Scott) was already mired in multiple personal and professional crises and now, he was faced with a string of sudden and inexplicable fatalities among his staff. He might find impetus to go on when he locks horns with the willful daughter (Diana Rigg) of a recalcitrant patient (Barnard Hughes). Dark farce netted Paddy Chayefsky the Best Original Screenplay Oscar;