George Schaefer: Doctors Wives (1971)

Source:Video Detective- one of the sex scenes in Doctors Wives.

"Starring: Carroll O'Connor, Dyan Cannon, Gene Hackman, Janice Rule, Rachel Roberts, Richard Crenna

Official Content From Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Lascivious soaper about the lives of a group of physicians in the bedroom as well as the operating room.

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From the Video Detective

"The dysfunctional marriages of several unhappy rich doctors who work at a private clinic and their neglected wives who deal with their own unhappiness in various ways enter crisis mode when one of them murders his cheating wife." 

From IMDB

The Video Detective gives you a solid look at who the main players in this film are. And the IMDB description gives you a solid look at what this film is about. Basically, wealthy, at least in early 1970s times, as well as today, millionaire doctors, even in today's money, who are apparently more happy at work, than at home with their bored, unhappy wives. 

The highlights of this film:

The Richard Crenna character has a mistress, who just happens to be his head nurse.

And if that's not enough, this film takes a sharp turn, when one of the doctors in the film (played by John Colicos) murders his tramp wife (played by Dyan Cannon) after he catches her having sex at their home, with one of the pre-med students at the hospital. 

And if that's not enough, he not only has blackmail material on all the other doctors, that he threatens to use against him, if they don't bail him out (so to speak) which he resorts to, after his his failed crime in the heat of passion defense fails. 

But, there's a young boy at the hospital, who just happens to be the son of Doctor Peter Brennan's (played by Richard Crenna) mistress, who has to have a lifesaving surgery, that can only be performed by Doctor Mort Dellman. (Played by John Colicos) But, Doctor Dellman only agrees to perform this surgery, if the doctors help him escape after the surgery, instead of going back to jail. 

And if that's not enough, there's a rumor about whether Doctor Brennan, is the father of his mistress's son, the boy who needs this surgery to keep living. 

So, if you are someone like me and you love great soap operas and you also love classic films, I think this is a great film. Think of a great episode, or a great series of episodes of General Hospital. But instead of that show really being about Port Charles, (which it really is) this movie is about the hospital and the people who work there. It's a great story, with a great cast, and it's also pretty funny as well.

This is from a follow up piece from an earlier 2013 piece about this film, from The New Democrat.

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