: As Barbara Drummond, Rigg provides a romantic—if cynical—counterpoint to Scott, notably in a celebrated seduction monologue that shifts the film’s tone in the middle third.
: Critics widely praise Scott’s performance as "magnetic" and "towering". His world-weary portrayal of a man roaring against his own decline is considered one of his finest cinematic hours. The Hospital(1971)
The story follows Dr. Herbert Bock (Scott), the brilliant but disillusioned and suicidal Chief of Medicine at a chaotic Manhattan teaching hospital. Bock is dealing with a monumental mid-life crisis, impotence, and an estranged family, all while the hospital around him collapses into madness. : As Barbara Drummond, Rigg provides a romantic—if
: Bock’s struggle to find meaning in a world he views as "curing nothing and healing nothing" is the emotional anchor of the film. Notable Performances The story follows Dr
: The film portrays the hospital as a site of bureaucratic absurdity where operations are performed on the wrong patients and medical staff are dying under mysterious circumstances.