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Doctors' Wives

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Doctors' Wives
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R,1hr 42min
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1970
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Synopsis: Among a cliquish set of country club doctors and surgeons, it seems that sleeping around is the norm. Early in the film, however, one husband murders his promiscuous wife (Dyan Cannon) while she is in bed with a rather unlikely adulterer. The various alliances and rivalries in this close-knit community are further stressed as the murderous husband uses his knowledge of the community for a wide-ranging blackmail scheme. While the police investigate, the doctors who do open-heart surgery on their patients ... Full Synopsis
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Featuring an embarrassingly bad screenplay by Daniel Taradash, Doctors' Wives is the kind of film that makes viewers shake their heads in disbelief. It's true that Taradash, who won an Oscar for From Here to Eternity, was working with less-than-classic material in Frank G. Slaughter's book, but that's no excuse for not coming up with less execrable dialogue than that which is found herein. Character ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Lorrie Dellman
Pete Brennan
Dave Randolph
Della Randolph
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