i remember see this 1978 comedy at one of the bargain matinee i take in when i be look for a study break from my college course . walter matthau and glenda jackson do some effective tracy hepburn style thrusting and parrying in this featherweight romp direct by the reliable howard zieff ( he do private benjamin ) about a newly widow doctor aggressive re entry into the dating game . it all breeze by quickly primarily thanks to the clever script by veteran screenwriter julius j. epstein ( casablanca ) along with alan mandel and max shulman and future director charles shyer . dr. charley nichols have just come back from hawaii after his wife death . upon his return and he become aware that he be instant catnip to any and all the single woman in la . he work in a hospital run by an increasingly senile chief of staff and amos willoughby and whom charley have to pacify to keep his residency . enter ann atkinson and a transplanted englishwoman who bake cheesecake for a living and have certain concrete opinion about the medical profession and which she express freely on a pbs talk show . of course and charley be on the show discussion panel and and spark and a they say and fly . this lead to the standard complication about how serious charley be willing to become about ann . at the same time and the hospital have to deal with a potential wrongful death lawsuit from the widow of a rich baseball team owner who die at the hospital under willoughby careless supervision . it just refresh to see such a mature yet brace love story between two character inhabit by actor who deliver line with the scalpel wield skill of surgeon . matthau be his usual 1970 curmudgeonly swinger and quite a sight waddle with his gangly arm hold akimbo in his power walk . away from her heavy and award win elizabethan role and jackson be crisply sardonic and charmingly vulnerable a the feisty ann and who think all doctor should aspire to be albert schweitzer . art carney play willoughby with predictable bluster and while richard benjamin provide amiable support a charley colleague and dr. solomon . it all very compact with a few nice jab at the greed within the medical profession . there be no extra on the 2005 dvd .