The Hospital (1971)
Comedy, Drama, Mystery • 1h 43m
Overview
Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes, Richard Dysart, Stephen Elliott, Donald Harron, Andrew Duncan, Nancy Marchand, Jordan Charney, Roberts Blossom, Lenny Baker, Richard Hamilton, Arthur Junaluska, Kate Harrington, Katherine Helmond, David Hooks, Frances Sternhagen, Robert Walden, William Perlow, Bette Henritze, Rehn Scofield, Dora Weissman, Carolyn Krigbaum, Paddy Chayefsky, Robert Anthony, Leigh Beery, Cynthia Belgrave, Norman Berns, Jacqueline Brookes, Lonnie Burr, Stockard Channing, Alex Colon, Matthew Cowles, Reid Cruickshanks, Anita Dangler, Jean David, Lorrie Davis, Dawn Powell Dell, Dennis Dugan, Milton Earl Forrest, Julie Garfield, Richard Goode, Nat Grant, Sarina C. Grant, Christopher Guest, Nat Horne, Bette Howard, Tresa Hughes, Bruce Kornbluth, Bill Lazarus, Paul Mace, Nancy MacKay, Tony Major, Shawn McAllister, Joy Nicholson, Bob O'Connell, Angie Ortega, Janet Paul, Lou Polan, Paul B. Price, Janet Sarno, Sab Shimono, Marilyn Sokol, Tom Spratley, John Tremaine, Tracey Walter, Gena Wheeler, Lydia Wilen
Director: Orson Welles
MoC 4K Blu-ray and Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray are similar
Director: Orson Welles
MoC 4K Blu-ray and Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray are similar
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: André de Toth
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
Director: André de Toth
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
Director: Sidney Lumet
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
2011 Criterion Blu-ray is the best. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has heavily filtered audio
Director: Sidney Lumet
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
2011 Criterion Blu-ray is the best. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has heavily filtered audio
Director: John McTiernan
Director: John McTiernan
Director: John Ford
Director: John Ford
1991 Warner Bros LaserDisc (for original mono track)
1996 Warner Bros 25th Anniversary LaserDisc has isolated music and effects track (incorrectly labeled "music minus vocals") not present on any other release
1991 Warner Bros LaserDisc (for original mono track)
1996 Warner Bros 25th Anniversary LaserDisc has isolated music and effects track (incorrectly labeled "music minus vocals") not present on any other release
Director: Alfred E. Green
Director: Alfred E. Green
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Director: Arthur Hiller
Director: Arthur Hiller
Director: Arthur Hiller
Director: Arthur Hiller
Director: Busby Berkeley
Director: Busby Berkeley
Director: Fritz Lang
Criterion 4K Blu-ray. See nicolas review: https://criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=841703#p841703 "The new master is simply gorgeous. Beautifully fine-grained, even the opticals don’t look that much less defined than the OCN-shots. Highlights are very nicely graded and the encode preserves them virtually flawlessly. The HDR / DV grade itself is tasteful and makes the film look tasteful. Velvety, silvery and just satisfying to look at. Furthermore, I don’t think NexSpec applied any filtering"
Twilight Time Blu-ray slightly better than Criterion 4K Blu-ray. Columbia Hi-Fi VHS probably significantly better (not been checked)
Director: Fritz Lang
Criterion 4K Blu-ray. See nicolas review: https://criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=841703#p841703 "The new master is simply gorgeous. Beautifully fine-grained, even the opticals don’t look that much less defined than the OCN-shots. Highlights are very nicely graded and the encode preserves them virtually flawlessly. The HDR / DV grade itself is tasteful and makes the film look tasteful. Velvety, silvery and just satisfying to look at. Furthermore, I don’t think NexSpec applied any filtering"
Twilight Time Blu-ray slightly better than Criterion 4K Blu-ray. Columbia Hi-Fi VHS probably significantly better (not been checked)
Director: Cy Endfield
US OOP Twilight Time Blu-ray > UK Paramount Blu-ray or US Inspired Blu-ray
The UK Blu-ray not only have some DNR applied, it's also squeezed and cropped: see comparison
The color contrast from Twilight Time is however possibly suffering the Quicktime Gamma Bug, but that's an easier issue to fix than DNR or cropped images.
Director: Cy Endfield
US OOP Twilight Time Blu-ray > UK Paramount Blu-ray or US Inspired Blu-ray
The UK Blu-ray not only have some DNR applied, it's also squeezed and cropped: see comparison
The color contrast from Twilight Time is however possibly suffering the Quicktime Gamma Bug, but that's an easier issue to fix than DNR or cropped images.
Director: Andrew L. Stone
Director: Andrew L. Stone
Director: Ralph Nelson
Kino Lorber Blu-ray is minimally better encoded than Twilight Time OOP Blu-ray see caps
Director: Ralph Nelson
Kino Lorber Blu-ray is minimally better encoded than Twilight Time OOP Blu-ray see caps
Director: Tom Holland
Eureka Blu-ray's stereo sounds better than the Sony 4K Blu-ray stereo
Twilight Time has an isolated score
Director: Tom Holland
Eureka Blu-ray's stereo sounds better than the Sony 4K Blu-ray stereo
Twilight Time has an isolated score
Director: John M. Stahl
Director: John M. Stahl
Edit History
4/18/2026
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1080p Blu-ray
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1080p Blu-ray
Best Video Release
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Sandpiper Pictures Blu-ray is likely the same as previous Twilight Time OOP Blu-ray
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Sandpiper Pictures Blu-ray is likely the same as previous Twilight Time OOP Blu-ray
Blu-ray.com
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