The Interns (1962)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

David Swift

Writers:

Richard Frede (novel)
Walter Newman (writer)

Release Date:

8 August 1962 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals...

Plot Keywords:

Doctor | Nurse | Abortion | Soap | Beautiful Woman

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 nomination

Cast

Michael Callan	...	Dr. Alec Considine
Cliff Robertson	...	Dr. John Paul Otis
James MacArthur	...	Dr. Lew Worship
Nick Adams	...	Dr. Sid Lackland
Suzy Parker	...	Lisa Cardigan
Haya Harareet	...	Dr. Madolyn Bruckner
Anne Helm	...	Mildred
Stefanie Powers	...	Nurse Gloria Mead
Buddy Ebsen	...	Dr. Sidney Wohl
Telly Savalas	...	Dr. Dominic Riccio
Katharine Bard	...	Nurse Vicky Flynn
Kaye Stevens	...	Nurse Didi Loomis
Gregory Morton	...	Dr. Hugo Granchard
Angela Clarke	...	Mrs. Emma Auer
Connie Gilchrist	...	Nurse Connie Dean

Runtime:

120 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

Finland:K-16

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center - 1200 N. State Street, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Robert Cohn Productions

Trivia:

Charles Robinson's film debut.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)

Soundtrack:

BYE AND BYE

The Schnooks is more like it

I'd love to have sat in on discussions for this film, assuming there were any. Shot for about 15 cents and starring some of the worst young actors in Hollywood at the time (Nick Adams, Michael Callan and James McArthur), THE INTERNS takes us through the day to day rituals of a group of budding doctors, all of them white and male and fatally hip. You can say they reflect the period in which the film was made, and you would be right, of course. Anyhow, there is no plot -- and this is no SCRUBS, either. It is about as realistic as GREY'S ANATOMY, which is to say not at all. The dialog is horrible, the sets are a joke, the sound is awful, the lighting bad. I could go on. Watch it for one truly hilarious sequence: an intern high on speed, cracking up in the lunchroom and being carried away. I think it was that bad actor of bad actors, John Ashley, but am not 100 percent sure. And make sure you watch it for the gal (Stephanie Powers, I think) who decides abandon her education, not see the world but stay behind and marry her hunky young intern and be a housewife and make babies for the rest of her life. That should get your blood pressure percolating. Well, you can always watch it for tough but tender Telly Savalas or the goofy but droll Buddy Ebsen as chief doctors. The JFK-like Cliff Robertson is on hand as well. Man, what must have 1962 audiences thought of this one? You understand THE INTERNS was made well before EASY RIDER, the movie that wrenched the film business from the hands of aging studio execs who thought they knew what we baby boomers were all about and wanted. You want to see a 1960s hospital movie worth its salt? Catch 1963's SHOCK CORRIDOR with Peter Breck. Made by the one and only Sam Fuller. Only don't watch it alone. I'm warning you.