M6797 MOTHER, JUGS AND SPEED (USA, 1976) (Other titles: Ambulances tous risques)

Credits: director, Peter Yates ; writer, Tom Mankiewicz. Cast: Raquel Welch, Bill Cosby, Harvey Keitel, Allen Garfield, Larry Hagman. Summary: Comedy film set in contemporary Los Angeles. A group of harried free- lance ambulance drivers for F.B. Ambulance Service hustle to snag ‘fares.’ Artists in this con game are Mother (Cosby) and Murdoch (Hagman), Rodeo (Butkus) and Speed (Keitel) who is a defrocked, apparently dirty cop and Vietnam veteran. Jugs (Welch) is the busty nurse.

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