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Interns, the
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by Columbia/Tri-Star
Sales Rank: 16580
Price: $59.99
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I caught this movie on the tv last night and I am surprised I missed this gem. With an all star cast, The Interns boldly portrays a group of interns going through all the tests and trials of life neatly packaged into one little bundle. It seems pretty brave for the times, as it covers such controversial issues as abortion, euthenasia, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, gender equality, and alcoholism without being to overly preachy. The Interns is certainly the basis and inspiration for all the hospital dramas that have followed after it.
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Based on the alleged best-seller by Richard Frede, this movie opens with the following Emergency Room exchange: "What is your chrurch preference?" an admitting nurse asks an elderly woman, who replies, "Oh, I guess I like red brick." So much for the film's intentional guffaws - from here on in, it's all utterly unintentional hilarity.
From the scene where Nick Adams uses his stethoscope on a Thanksgiving turkey to the sequence where Dr. Michael Callan goes insane because he's suspected of a "mercy killing," everything about THE INTERNS calls to mind the title of another `60s medico pic: DOCTOR, YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING! Take, for starters, Dr. Cliff Robertson's encounter with fashion model Suzy Parker. When Robertson notes that her eyelashes are "false," Parker says, "Dear, everything else is real." When he calls her "fresh," she volleys, "What do you do with a fresh girl like me, doctor? Wash her mouth out with formaldehyde?" When he asks for "a date," she asks for "an abortion"!
Back at the hospital, the head nurse warns her student nurses, "Rule number one, girls: Never talk to the interns. They're all sex maniacs," yet it's new nurse Stephanie Powers who's sporting a hickey on her neck (or, in the hepcat jive of this flick, "a little passion berry"). One of the interns asks, "Who put it there, ducky-poo?" but Powers won't tell; certainly it wasn't her beau, goody two-shoes Dr. James MacArthur.
They attend the interns' New Years Eve bash, a "you-gotta-see-it-to-believe-it" wild party where the booze is served via IVs, doctors dance with skeletons, nurses strip tp their underthings, and an extra we've never seen before waves a cigarette holder as she utters her only line of dialogue, "It's all sort of Mondrian, Klee, Kabuki-like, don't you think?"
We sure do.
Robertson, swearing his devotion to Parker ("I won't let you go to one of those back-alley butchers!"), gets caught stealing drugs to help her lose the baby and is tossed out of the hospital. Callan, meanwhile, is using two different women to get ahead and so takes drugs to keep up the, uh, pace. We're meant to agree when head of the hospital Buddy Ebsen asks chief surgeon Telly Savalas, "How do you suppose it looks for you to be throwing scalpels at the interns?" but the fact is, we just wish his aim were a little more accurate. MacArthur ponders the real questions like "Who are we to play God?" but the real question is "Who are they to play doctors?"
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