Where Does It Hurt? * (1972, Peter Sellers, Jo Ann Pflug, Rick Lenz, Harold Gould, Pat Morita) – Classic Movie Review 9805 Classic Movie Review 9805

Director Rod Amateau’s largely pointless and unfunny poor-taste 1972 black farce Where Does It Hurt? concentrates on smutty jokes, nasty caricatures, offensive stereotypes and unsubtle innuendos, and wastes Peter Sellers and the other talented actors involved.

Mindless medical mishaps are a pain in one of Sellers’s least effective comedies in which he plays corrupt hospital administrator Dr Albert T Hopfnagel, who runs a corrupt hospital with every nurse and orderly seemingly incompetent or on the fiddle. When Lester Hammond (Rick Lenz) comes to Sellers’s hospital for an X-ray, nurse Alice Gilligan (Jo Ann Pflug) tells Sellers that Lenz owns a home and Sellers gives him an unnecessary appendectomy.

Based on the novel The Operator by Budd Robinson, Where Does It Hurt? is so painful it hurts.

Also in the cast are Harold Gould, Pat Morita, Eve Druce, Hope Summers as Nurse Throttle, Kathleen Freeman, Norman Alden, Keith Allison, William Elliot, Jean Byron [Jeane Byron], Paul Lambert, Brett Halsey, Albert Reed, J Edward McKinley, Marvin Miller and Jack Mullaney.

Where Does It Hurt? is directed by Rod Amateau, runs 90 minutes, is made by Josef Shaftel, is released by Cinerama, is written by Rod Amateau and Budd Robinson, based on the novel The Operator by Budd Robinson, is shot by Brick Marquard, is produced by Josef Shaftel (executive producer), Rod Amateau and William Schwartz, is scored by Keith Allison and is designed by Mike Haller.

It hit a double bill with There’s a Girl in My Soup.

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