Best movie of this year hands down!

Just what I expected

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Neat movie. A gold mine of young and seasoned actors.. Book the baby Dano, Find the bubbling crude Buddy, Save the PT boat Cliff, have a sucker Tele, have a Heart to hart Steph...Along with Nick Addams, who's career was cut short by an untimely death, and What ever became of Mike Callan? Campy and slow, Pre womens lib, a must see for young women who need a laugh.Med students and profs hanging out at the local bar discussing medical ethics, when they should be at the dorm studying for an exam, or killing a keg. I think it's worth the watch to see these actors early in there careers. Have some popcorn handy.

Based on a novel concerning the trials and tribulations of a gaggle of medical interns at a large metropolitan hospital, this busy, multi-character soap opera entertains in fits and starts, ultimately winding up rather pat and not that memorable. Callan plays an eager beaver, juggling a rich and sexy girlfriend (Helm) with an older, spinsterish nurse (Bard) who he thinks can help further his career. Robertson is a self-assured, older intern who gets mired in the problems of a troubled model (Parker.) MacArthur plays an idealistic guy who longs to have his own clinic and who falls for perky nurse Powers. Adams is a party animal who is tamed by terminally ill patient Davalos. Finally, Harareet is the lone female intern, who faces prejudice from the male-heavy establishment, particularly Savalas. Ebson is on hand as well to help reign in the boisterous, overworked doctors in training, meaning that the interns are presided over by Kojak and Barnaby Jones. Other story threads include a paralyzed man (Brocco) who longs to die and a nurse (Stevens) who throws one dilly of a New Years Eve party. The film opens with what had to be some pretty frenetic editing for 1962. Glimpses of the interns at work flash rather quickly on the screen. Afterwards, the film settles down to a pretty standard level of drama, strife and mild comic relief. Highlights of the film include the crowded party sequence (with its exaggerated bits of faux debauchery), an almost surreal birthing sequence with MacArthur getting his hands wet for the first time and a hysterically over-the-top meltdown scene with Callan when something doesn't go his way. The film touches upon some very controversial topics along the way such as abortion, euthanasia and drug abuse, but the script is so scattershot and the acting so ham-handed by some of the participants that these don't end up having very much impact. There seem to be just a few too many characters and story lines present for any one of them to really hit home the way it should. Ironically, the one storyline that gets the shortest shrift (Harareet's) turns out to be one of the most affecting thanks to some sincere acting on her part and the able support from Savalas. As is to be expected from a glossy soap like this from 1962, there are a few unintentional laughs along the way. Adams gives Davalos a mechanized toy that is so unbelievably annoying and excruciating, one can only assume that it caused her to take a turn for the worst. Also, for a film dedicated to the medical profession and the saving of lives, it's unreal to watch the ungodly quantities of cigarettes consumed throughout. A perennially pregnant woman not only smokes, but drinks! It's an entertaining couple of hours, and inspired a sequel, but is unlikely to stay in the memory for too long after viewing.

***SPOILERS*** Soap opera-like story, much like the hospital soaps on TV, about a group of very green and inexperienced interns beginning their internships in a major municipal hospital and the trials and tribulations, as well as romantic involvements, that they all go through during their stay at the medical facility. The main player among the interns is brass and womanizing doctor Alex Considien, Michalel Cullan, who's determined to get a residency with his hero that he followed to the facility Dr. Robert Bonny, Edward McKinley, a top-flight psychiatrist whom he wants to follow in his footsteps. The handsome and personable Alex gets involved with two women at the same time, one for love and the other to further his career, that spells disaster. Later Alex ends up breaking down, in what has to be his greatest performance ever, in the hospital mess-shall. All this happens when Alex is told that because one of the patients old and terminally ill Dr. Arnold Oucr, Peter Brocco, who was in his and his fellow interns care died of an overdose of drugs that someone suspected among them slipped him their he's in danger of losing his residence.There's also doctors Paul Otis & Lew Worship, Cliff Robertson & James McArthur, who are the best of friends who have a falling out later in the movie. That happens when Otis pageant girlfriend, not by him, fashion model Lisa Cardigan, Suzy Parker, talked the love sick intern into stealing a drug, that can only be applied if the woman's life is in danger, out of the hospital to terminate her pregnancy. This after his best friend Dr. Worship catches him in the act and refuses to put it back in the locked cabinet. In the pursuing fight the erupts between Oitis Worship and the doctor in charge of paediatrics Dr. Apschut, William Douglas, Otis ends up not only being kicked out of the hospital but out of the medical profession altogether.The most touching performance, of many, in the film "The Interns" was that of Nick Adams as the both comical and sensitive doctor Sid Luckland. Sid became involved with this sad and lonely young Indonesian girl Loara, Ellen Davalos, who despite the hospitals best efforts is dying from this spine tumor. Loara is told that she has only a one in ten thousand chance of surviving the delicate and very dangerous operation that can save her life.In one of the most heart-felt scenes I've ever seen on the screen Sid hoping against hope for Loara, who had already accepted her fate, to survive looks like he was struck by a lighting bolt! That happened when he gets the shocking news from a totally unfeeling and what seems like uninvolved head nurse that Loara died on the operation table! This left him both crying and in a state of shock. Later in the movie Sid took the late Loara's advice by him, instead of making his fortune as a high priced doctor in the USA, traveling to Loara's small village in Indonesia to take care and look after the ill and infirmed who would have died without him being and working there.The movie also has an early performance by soon become famous actor Telly Savalas in one of his first leading roles. Savalas as the head of surgery at the hospital Dr. Ricco was as hard on the outside in his treatment of the doctors and nurses that he was in charge of as he was soft on the inside. By him giving a grieving and broke Dr. Brockner,Haya Harareet, the break that she needed to continue her medical studies under his residency. Even though he had to confront a prejudice that Dr. Brockner helped him overcome; that she's a woman surgeon.

This film is an excellent drama depicting the challenges faced by wannabe doctors who first need to complete their Internships before they can really get to practice. It depicts the internal struggles of greed, racism and personal ethics. The best part of the whole movie is the wild party that takes place on New Year's Eve. There is lots of booze, lots of dancing, loud music, crazy antics and even a drunken stripper. It is the kind of party that most of us would probably do anything to get invited to.