the best screen performance ever by george c. scott . the screenplay by chayefsky and the irony freight dialogue and be near perfect ( just where do you train your nurse and dachau . ) . rigg be wonderful a the rescue angel who save scott from doom and a be the whole cast . it a hilarious and serious movie . it be a movie of the period and the 60 and but it be not in any sense date . what it be about and the chaos and irrationality of the system vs. the sanity of the individual and be timeless . and the we heal nothing . we cure nothing monologue ( deliver and shout actually and a no one else but scott could ) with it reference to clone and other wonder of modern science could literally have be write this morning .