Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

The acting in this movie is really good.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Really nice surprise;a film which blends both humor and drama with equal measure, in this fast-paced ambulance dramedy about two rival small-time LA based paramedics companies(F&B and Unity) dueling as they seek code-patients, dealing with the unpredictable, day-to-day / night-to-night routines and all of the different challenges that come with the demanding job. Solid-as-a-rock cast including Bill Cosby, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Davison, Dick Butkis, and Larry Hagman(..who steals the film)as paramedics working for cantankerous, loud-mouth Allen Garfield. Dependable LQ Jones shows up in a small supporting role as the sheriff who allows Mother(Cosby)leverage in illegal activities(..often for a price, other times out of friendship). The gorgeous Raquel Welch, always able to make hearts(..among other organs)swoon, stars as a switchboard operator who earns a paramedic diploma and must go to severe lengths(..commandeering an ambulance out of rage towards Garfield's resistance towards women drivers)to get the boss to let her in on the street action.A young Davison's(..who's both full of energy, yet exhibiting a rather sad aura) fate when he and Mother answer the call regarding a disturbed junkie desperate for a fix, is really tragic. Hagman has a plum role as a perverted sex fiend who humps female patients while they are unconscious as his partner drives them to the nearest hospital, only to be caught red handed by Keitel(..nicknamed Speed, an accused police officer temporarily suspended for possibly selling cocaine)and "repremanded" for his actions. Highlight has Cosby beating Hagman to a pulp due to an incident involving betting on how many stiffs each team could pick up during the shift. Garfield's group actually sleep together in the building just in case calls come in.The film displays how the cast deals with death(..such as the loss of a patient who hemorrhages after giving birth, and when a paramedic is shot in cold blood while on the job), plus we see how Mother exploits the lack of policy under his employer due to his skills and experience(..even, getting a massage while on duty!). Cosby works his magic(..it's amazing how likable and charming he is despite his questionable ways on the job) and Keitel is remarkably mellow and restrained(..without being dull or lifeless). I thought the film just flew by because it's so much fun and has such verve, with interesting characters / situations..never a dull moment, really.

TITLE: MOTHER, JUGS & SPEED was release in theaters in the United States on May 26 1976 and the time it takes to watch this movie is 95 Minutes. Mother, Jugs & Speed is a 1976 comedy film directed by Peter Yates. It stars Bill Cosby (Mother), Raquel Welch (Jugs) and Harvey Keitel (Speed) as employees of an independent ambulance service trying to survive in Los Angeles. Allen Garfield plays the role of Harry Fishbine, the owner of the company. Larry Hagman appears in the movie as a driver obsessed with sex.SUMMARY: In this frantic black comedy, Harry Fishbine (Allen Garfield) is the proprietor of the F&B Ambulance Service, a low-budget free-lance rescue service which is struggling to keep up with the bigger and better funded competition after a law in Los Angeles decrees that the first ambulance to arrive at the scene of a distress call gets the job. F&B's best driver is Mother (Bill Cosby), a freewheeling ambulance jockey who likes to drink beer and play dance music while he makes his rounds. Mother's new assistant is Speed (Harvey Keitel), a former cop who left the force after allegations of drug use; Speed is looking for a new career and a chance to prove himself. In addition, Jugs is the accurate-if-sexist nickname for Jennifer (Raquel Welch), the company secretary who wants to get out from behind the desk and prove her skills as a paramedic. As F&B's driver's race through the streets of Hollywood, their adventures veer between the hilarious and the tragic. Mother, Jugs, and Speed also features Larry Hagman, Dick Butkus, Bruce Davison, and L.Q. Jones.MY THOUGHTS: I guess the reason I don't like this film as much as the rest is because I'm used to seeing Raquel in bath suits and shorts not in over hauls. Despite Welch clothing I still would give this movie 7 weasel stars.

Truly a comedy classic with Bill Cosby & Rachel Walsh. Timeless workplace comedy. I loved the year of 1976. This movie was a part of my little world of 1976. A feel good movie. I was starting out in the work world and as funny as the movie is, it also teaches young people about the workplace and getting along with different personalities. Alan Garfield plays the typical boss we all know and have the love/ hate relationship. It has love between the actors Harvey Kietel and Rachel Walsh. It was all you were expecting about life as a teenager. Hopes of happiness, excitement, Love, and friendship. And prepares you in comedic way how your dreams become reality.

**SPOILERS** Getting $42,50 per client and .50 per mile it take to get him, or her, to the nearest hospital is the life's-blood of the H&B Ambalance Company and the more bodies it hauls the more cash rolls into to it's coffers. Mother, Bill Cosby, is the wise old man of H&B who's seen just about everything there is to see in the ambulance business and doesn't mind seeing some more. As good as an ambulance driver Mother is he still has some hang ups, like we all do, in life. Mother carries on his rig a loaded .357 Magnum and a case of ice cold beer that he constantly sips as he drives wildly through the streets of L.A. Mother also has a very bad habit of buzzing the local nuns, scaring the hell out of them as they cross the streets outside their chapel. Jugs, Raquel Welch, is the pretty and busty, like her name suggests, dispatcher of the H&B Ambalance Company who has a dream of becoming an ambulance driver herself. Which is taking a toll on her social life by studying nights to get a diploma and license to be behind the wheel; and roll up and down the city streets at 60 to 100 MPH without worrying about red lights or being pulled over by police squad cars.Speed, Harvey Keitel, is a cop on suspension and awaiting trial for selling uppers and coke, not the bottled kind, to high school students on his beat which later proves that he didn't. Speed also has a way with the ladies in his sensitive way of sweet talking to them that has the almost unapproachable and untouchable Jugs falling for the cute and cuddly ex-cop as fast as it takes her to dispatch a rig to pick up a stiff off the street. Hilarious 1976 black comedy that has it's share of real drama and tragedy in it as well.There's Mother's partner Leroy, Bruce Davidson,gets shot to death a by a junkie, Toni Basil, because he didn't have the drugs that she so desperately craved. There was also a very graphic delivery scene of a baby on a H&B ambulance that was trying to get to a county hospital. This happened when the two ambulance drivers, Speed & Jugs, were told a snotty doctor at a local hospital emergency ward that they don't take obstetrics there. The baby was successfully delivered, by Jugs, but the mother died in childbirth. There's a very wild and bloody shootout at the end of the film when two of the H&B drivers Murdouc & Walker(Larry Hagman & Michael McManus) both drunk and doped up took over the company's office and held the boss' wife Peaches Fishbine, Valerie Curtin, hostage. The shoot-out ending with one of the drivers, Murdoc, getting shot to death by the police and the other badly burned. Allen Garfied was an added treat in the movie as H&B's owner Harry Fishbine who acted as if he were a general and that his workers were an advanced infantry unit about to storm the Normandy beaches on D-Day.