THE HOSPITAL
Directed by ARTHUR HILLER
Screenplay by PADDY CHAYEFSKY
SUCH GOOD FRIENDS
Directed by OTTO PREMINGER
Screenplay by ESTHER DALE
Doctors are butchers. Hospitals are abattoirs. Patients are lucky to get away with their lives, never mind their good health. These are more or less the notions behind these two films, both of which purport to be comedies. The medical profession is eminently ripe for a good dissection, but the satire is laid on here with all the clumsiness of an intern at his first operation.
The Hospital shares little but garrulousness with the kind of Bronx...
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