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...other medical show, Ben Casey, however, written by James (Medic) Moser and starring Vincent Edwards, is one of the great events in the long, hallowed annals of videosurgery. Neurosurgeon Ben Casey is so bright that his giant brain is already grappling with the most advanced encephalopathological problems of 1975. Meanwhile, he is a first-class, unsutured, 1961-style son of a bitch. Handling several cases an ABC-hour, his kindest words for his fellow physicians are: "What the hell do you use for brains?" Rabid women bite him. But, for all his foaming at the mouth, Casey is a marvelous...
Each morning at Trung Lap, Sergeant Guy Williams, a U.S. medic, gives free treatment to local peasants. They line up at his thatch-roofed "office," exposing their sores of yaws and jungle rot. Sometimes a hobbling peasant arrives with his foot pierced by a Communist shoe-mine-a viciously barbed spike planted in jungle trails. Two orphan sisters of 7 and 10 trudged in. Both had been wounded five days before by steel splinters from a Viet Cong grenade...
Identical Twin. Sergeant Duarte led his company of Rangers on a night raid against a Viet Cong village. Surprise was complete, and he returned at dawn with five Communist prisoners. Looking carefully at one, Medic Williams said, "I'm sure I've seen him right here in my daily line-up of patients. Either that, or he has an identical twin...
...Tommy Sands and Fabian, making a scene in Darryl Zanuck's The Longest Day, the story of the Normandy invasion. Part way up the cliff, Anka was dropped by a speck of sand in his eye and, returning to the fray, was later immobilized by a torn fingernail. "Medic!" someone shouted, and World War II stopped dead in its tracks. Near General Zanuck's yellow camp chair stood a real U.S. Ranger, on hand to give technical advice. "These guys," he said helpfully, "don't have what it takes...
...Millionairess. British Comedian Peter Sellers is superb as the medic in an otherwise heavy-handed remake of Shaw's comedy, with Sophia Loren singularly unfunny as the rich-bitch heroine. Sellers is also on view in Two-Way Stretch, an excellent prison farce...