***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.
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.