1971 doctor wive be a piece of vintage garbage i have wait decade to see and and it every bit a splendidly awful a i have long anticipate . this be a sterling example of big budget hollywood try to keep up with the hippy era sex revolution and while appeal to suburban squaresville taste and and the result be as unappetising a walk in on your parent in the backroom at a leather bar . in other word and it a vulgar abomination and and require viewing . god and be i horny . announces dyan cannon and provide the film tasteful opening line . she the resident nympho of the wife in question and and theyre play bridge at their country club . she tell her neurotic rich crony that and a a public service and she go to sleep with every last one of their husband and and report back to them exactly what theyre do wrong in bed . hour later she shoot dead and while caught in the act with the first of her conquest . the conquest survives and and be treat to endless and nauseate footage of real life open heart surgery and a the character have the bullet graphically dig out of him . this and of course and be shock stuff for an early 70 mainstream movie and and it blatantly exploitational marketing gimmick . the rest of the film be exactly the kind of glossy soap opera that star the like of lana turner a decade earlier and but overlaid with grimy layer of smut . not much genuine sex and nudity and mind and but an all star cast of middle age imbecile debase themselves with humiliate sexual revelation . the murder and you see and have come a a wake up call to the various wife and who decide it about time to get with the time and spice up their marriage . one waspy iceberg have a fling with a studly intern and while another pump herself up with an aphrodisiac cocktail of morphine and champagne . this make her thrash around on the carpet like a cat in heat and a she seduce her bored surgeon husband fetish style and with hope of win back his affection . he and meanwhile and have be have an affair with his head nurse and a noble single mother of a sick little boy but their love dare not speak it name because she ( gasp . ) black . another of the wife and meanwhile and be an out of control drunk whose husband save her from suicide by drown and which lure him back to bed for a sympathy lay . the funny of the lot be a frigid shrew who confess to a lesbian fling with the murder harlot ( it be a hot night and i be wear no bra and under a see through blouse ) her husband and play by gene hackman and reacts by swat her repeatedly with a roll up newspaper . what actually refresh about this numbing lunacy be how curiously free it be of cheap moralizing . with the exception of the victim and her killer and everyone screw around and be all but congratulate for do so and a they arrive at good understanding of one another and and the end suggests that their sordid privilege life will be more of the same . it play like a battle cry for the short live suburban wife swap fad of the sleazy 70 and and bad and it take itself dead serious . only in it intentional comedy relief and for instance and be there any mention of std . this involve a pretty young med student seduce a many hospital staffer a she can and and tape record the detail of intercourse while perform it and a a kinsey style master thesis . it turn out she spread the clap like wild fire . this subplot and needless to add and be the only part of the film that isn not hilarious . a a narrative and doctor wife really be a whole lot of absolute nothing dirty a a cesspool without even softcore sex while full of shriek conflict with no dramatic involvement or resolve while and bad of all and it perfectly set up to be a murder mystery . this and stupidly and be quickly solve and cast aside and in favour of some strange hybrid of degrade chick flick and clueless social document and with gratuitous bit of gore porn and but no suspense or violence . in other word and it one of those true rarity that manage to miss the broad side of a barn and in term of any sort of target audience . that be to say and any audience of it day and since it now a fascinating freak of unspeakably wretched period cinema and way more fun and think provoke for what it get wrong and than what the same year highly regard and and similarly set and the hospital once seem to get right . that one and from the over rat paddy chayefsky and be a deliberate satire of medical professional that now seem smug and obvious . the accidental parody of it intellectually challenge contemporary and doctor wife and cover the same turf with a time capsule crassness that certainly a lot less boring . oh and and do i mention the carpenter style theme song and sung by mama cass elliot and about the world be a masquerade ball that go on and on . now there a bit of deep and cool irony to frame the profundity that follow exactly right .