Les nouveaux internes

"The New Interns" is a sequel to "The Interns" (1962) and features many of the original cast. Oddly, six years later, there was a TV series based on the films...though the cast was pretty much all different.

If you are looking for an honest look at the life of young doctors and nurses, then I would strongly recommend you avoid this film. While it has a few serious moments, it also is filled with all sorts of romances, laughs and drama. And, oddly enough, you almost never see any of these doctors actually doctoring! Because of that, I thought it was entertaining AND bad at the same time...especially because VERY serious topics (such as rape as well as infertility) are hidden among the goofball antics of the doctors.

If you do watch the film, it IS a treat for children of the 1950s and 60s, as the movie has few movie actors and mostly TV actors...such as Telly Savalas, Whit Bissell, Dawn Wells, Barbara Eden, Greg Morris, Stephanie Powers and even Jerry Mathers' little brother, Jimmy. In this sense the movie is worth seeing...otherwise...probably not.

By the way, early in the film a doctor is showing his friends ink blots. These are NOT from the actual Rorschach Test in case you are wondering.