Doctors & Nurses (1981)
A Prescription for Laughter
Doctors and Nurses is a gimmick film, a down under age reversal trick in the style of Alan Parker's 'Bugsy Malone'. A bunch of kids play the game of Doctors and Nurses - of the inoffensive dress-up kind - tending a bunch of adults suffering from a variety of ailments.
- Date of release
- 1981-12-26
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Family, Comedy
- Director
- Maurice Murphy
Casting
- Pamela Stephenson — Permanent Wave
- Bert Newton — Mr Cody
- Richard Meikle — The President
- Drew Forsythe — Katz
- Andrew McFarlane — Milligan
- Graeme Blundell — Mr X
- June Salter — Lady Cliquot
- Terry Bader — Mr Gleeson
- Bill Young — Agent 1
- Lance Curtis — Agent 2
- Bill McCluskey — Producer
- Rebecca Rigg — Mercia King
Interesting facts
Doctors and Nurses is a 1981 Australian comedy film directed by Maurice Murphy. The gimmick is child actors play doctors and nurses and adults play patients.
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