The Hospital

Paddy Chayefsky's magnificently dark comedy, directed by Arthur Hiller, stars George C. Scott as the deeply depressed Head of Medicine at a teaching hospital where, over one long night, everything falls apart. The doc's suicide is interrupted only by the arrival of a seductive young woman (Diana Rigg), the daughter of a crazed patient (Barnard Hughes); she gives the doc something to live for and helps him get to the bottom of the bizarre deaths suddenly plaguing the medical institution.