36. the hospital ( comedy and 1971 ) a series of emergency have grip manhattan hospital . patient be die leave and right due to overcrowded condition and and a ineptitude staff . when a resident doctor be catch up in the death count the chief medical examiner and dr. bock ( george c. scott ) and be call in to investigate . have work a a doctor for too many year and and go through a mid life crisis of his own and dr. bock find the go tough . he decide to commit suicide . but then he meet barbara ( diana rigg ) and a young hippie beauty . whose keen insight on life help the depressed bock . critique represent black comedy feature a tour de force performance from veteran actor george c. scott . he good at play high strung and serious character whose strict moral be severely test . first half of the film unfolds like a melodrama and give a pretty good account of hospital life and and the shamble they sometimes be . but then and a thing look set for a dramatic climax it skew into slapstick comedy . if paddy chayefsky script have maintain it dramatic feel i wonder if scott would have walk out with another best actor oscar ( he have previously win it and in absentia and the year before ) . his breakdown ( suicide ) scene be one of the most gut wrenchingly real in cinema history . quote represent dr. bock represent . . . last night i sit in my hotel room review the shamble of my life and contemplate suicide . i say no bock do not do it . youre a doctor and a healer and youre a necessary person and youre life be meaningful . then . . . i find out that one of my doctor be kill by a couple of nurse . . . how be i to sustain my feeling of meaningfulness in the face of this .