Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel

Two privately owned ambulance companies compete for the city contract in LA. The focus, F+B Ambulance Service, has the wildest crew on the block. Cosby (Mother) plays the veteran driver to whom rules ...( read more  read more... )are meant to be bent. Keitel (Speed) is a cop on suspension for suspicion of drug peddling to minors who needs to pay the rent. Welch (Jugs) is the dispatch secretary with secret ambitions who won't give the boys in the bunkhouse the time of day. Drama and comedy bleed together over who makes the right decisions to land them in the money and keep them out of the hospital.

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PG, 95 min.

Directed by: Peter Yates

Release Date: January 1, 1976

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DVD Release Date: March 9, 2004

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  • December 16, 2008
    This movie can't decide what it is. Is it a comedy? Is it a social drama? Is it a romance? An interesting concept I knew nothing about executed terribly. It's about the way ambulance services and emergency medical care were provided and were changing in the 70's. Cosby trie...( read more)s to be funny and has the nickname Mother because he is the responsible one in a crew of ambulance drivers and EMTs. Welch is nicknamed Jugs and is fighting for women's lib. And Keitel is nicknamed Speed. It's hard to tell if he is a bad boy or a reformed good guy looking for a new life, but chances are he's looking for that second chance.
  • December 7, 2008
    I loved this movie when it came out, but it doesn't date well. Still in comparison to a lot of the product today...
  • October 26, 2008
    I used to drive an ambulance so I laughed my ass off at this one.
  • July 9, 2008
    crap
  • June 2, 2007
    I nice "back in da day" 70's comedy classic by a wide range of actors including Bill Cosby and Racquel Welch and Larry Hagman.
  • August 2, 2009
    This was a very cute movie
  • July 5, 2009
    Great 70's underrated and undershown classic. The film like MASH a few years earlier was able to walk the fineline of being a screwball comedy and every once in a while hit you with a very dramatic moment. The movie revolves around the lives and rivalries of independant ambulance...( read more) drivers. Cosby is the legendary Mother who is the best of the best of the ambulance drivers but due to alcohol dependancy and the death of his likeable young partner(Davison)on the job, he keeps everbody at a distance. Welch is Jennifer a.k.a. Juggs who is the very spirited and ample ambulance dispatcher who wants to break the gender barrier at that time and become a driver. Keitel plays Speed a disgraced ex-cop forced into being the rookie and training with a sexist mental mess named Murdock played very handily by a pre-Dallas Larry Hagman. The film centers on a not-so friendly and dirty tricks rivalry between independant ambulance companies. This film was a must watch for my EMT/Paramedic buddies back in the day and even though I see it as MASH meets Carwash, you can definitely see the influence it must have had on the Police Academy movies that would follow years later.
  • April 5, 2009
    Being an female EMT in the 70's, well, this was on the mark.
  • December 17, 2008
    A movie with some very funny scenes and some very well acted dramatic ones. It was cool to see some of Cosby's earlier movies, so you know they didn't stink then.
  • October 11, 2008
    This was a good classic Saturday Morning matinee movie. This movie shows the humorous and tragic side on how tough it is to be an ambulance employee. See it...it is a classic.

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  • oliverrs
    October 21, 2007
    Also, why in the hell is there a "fan club" for this film? I don't get it. Is that a joke?
  • oliverrs
    October 21, 2007
    Is this movie a comedy or a gritty exploration of ambulance driving life a la Scorcese's "Bringing out the Dead"? Not sure, but Larry Hagman trying to rape an unconscious woman doesn't get me laughing. Bill Cosby's multiple dildo massage was funny but jarring. (Can someone upload that clip to YouTube, please? Seriously, Cosby is being massaged by dildos shaped like mens' penises, and in the film he enjoys it.)

    At the end, Larry Hagman and a friend get drunk and almost murder a few people. Welch is called "Jugs" because she has large breasts. Get it? And I guess ambulance drivers all sleep in the same quarters like army men. ZzZzZz

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