Hitchcock, Hospital Administration Roberts Blossom as Guernsey Lenny Baker as Dr. Howard Schaefer Richard Hamilton as Dr. Ronald Casey Arthur Junaluska as Mr. Blacktree Kate Harrington as Nurse Dunne Katherine Helmond as Mrs. Marilyn Mead David Hooks as Dr. Joe Einhorn Frances Sternhagen as Mrs. Sally Cushing Stockard Channing as E.R. Nurse (uncredited) Dennis Dugan as E.R. Doctor (uncredited) Production It was filmed at Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York. Frank Thompson designed the costumes for the film. Reception Box office The film earned $9 million in North American rentals. Critical response When the film was released, film critic Roger Ebert lauded the film, writing, "The Hospital is a better movie than you may have been led to believe. It has been criticized for switching tone in midstream, but maybe it's only heading for deeper, swifter waters. [...] Chayevsky's [sic] bizarre and unexpected ending suggests that men - even madmen - can still use institutions for their own private purpose." The New York Times found the film “a very serious (in fact, perhaps, a little too serious), very funny melodramatic farce....[it] is not, as you might be led to believe, the sort of pious, inside-institution literature that Arthur Hailey grinds out to satisfy the book clubs, if not the muses, nor is it really one of those malpractice horror stores that are so helpful in obtaining lecture tours for medical men....the writer’s intelligence, and his only recently exercised gift for fantasy...save ‘The Hospital’ from a couple of serious seizures that, toward the end, overtake the movie when it feels called upon to certify its serious purposes and to straighten out its peculiar plot....Mr. Hiller....obtains excellent performances from his stars [and] has perfectly cast the film down to roles that are so small they depend—I suspect—as much on natural mannerism as on acting talent.” More recently, film critic Dennis Schwartz gave the film a mildly positive review, writing, "The gallows humor was the melodramatic farce's saving grace; the film uses its razor-sharp instruments to cut into the hides of the insensitive institutionalized health care providers like Michael Moore's Sicko does in 2007 to the fat-cat HMOs. My major gripe was that it could have been better, as Chayefsky delivered his part of the bargain and so did Scott; nevertheless the pic flattens out as the director increasingly loses his way in all the bitterness and invented horror stories and leaves us