La dottoressa del distretto militare (1976) Poster

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3/10
Edwige!
BandSAboutMovies15 July 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Usually in a movie when someone wrecks a car staring at someone I usually think, "Well, that's pretty ridiculous." Then again, if it's Edwige Fenech, that makes more sense to me.

In this film, she plays Dottoressa Elena Dogliozzi, a doctor busty doctor who believes that all of the sick men in her military hospital are just trying to postpone being sent off to war.

Director Nando Cicero also made Due volte Giuda and isn't someone whose films I've sought out. It's hard to judge someone's abilities within the commedia sexy all'italiana genre. Cicero wrote the script with Franco Milizia and Marino Onorati who wrote a movie with one of my favorite titles of all time, Metti lo diavolo tuo ne lo mio inferno (Put Your Devil Into My Hell).

This would be followed by several sequels and connected movies, including the Karin Shubert-starring La dottoressa sotto il lenzuolo (Under the Sheets); the Fenech-starring La soldatessa alla visita militare (The Soldier On the MIlitary Visit) and La soldatessa alle grandi manovre (The Solder With Great Maneuvers); Nadia Cassini in L'infermiera nella corsia dei militari (The Nurse In the Military Madhouse) and La dottoressa ci sta col colonnello (The Doctor Is There with the Colonel); and Paola Senatore in La dottoressa preferisce i marinai (The Doctor Prefers Sailors). There's also Che dottoressa ragazzi! (What a Doctor You Guys!) which is pretty much this same movie with Femi Benussi, Gloria Guida in L'infermiera di notte (Night Nurse) and Laura Gemser in Messo comunale praticamente spione (Communal Messenger Practically a Spy). Seeing as how that last film is also known as Emanuelle In the Country you can bet that I've already seen it.
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3/10
Pretty lame
Leofwine_draca16 May 2023
LA DOTTORESSA DEL DISTRETTO MILITARE is a very typical Italian sex comedy of its era, with little in the way of sex and lots in the way of simple, mugging humour with exaggerated facial expressions and loud line reading. The setting is a military hospital for the ill and injured, and it turns out the place is packed with malingerers and no hopers, hence the arrival of a female doctor with a mind to clean it all up and get everyone healthy again. This is only of interest for the presence of that queen of 1970s exploitation cinema Edwige Fenech, who of course has a couple of nude scenes, including a lengthy dream sequence by one of the other doctors. It's pretty lame.
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Low-brow sexy Italian Comedy
gemproductions19 June 2000
Edwige Fenech is spinning the heads around on the male members of an Italian catholic military hospital, but is it funny? The humor is in the "Stupid Facial Expressions" department,and the best thing about this silly little comedy must be a dream sequence with Edwige Fenech naked on a hospital bed while a nun is farting soap bubbles. Well, what more can I say...
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2/10
Excruciating "comedy"
gridoon202413 June 2008
Edwige Fenech has a great body (as well as a great face to go with it). And she has never been too shy about on-screen nudity. Therefore, a bad film is not worth sitting through just to see Edwige naked - you should try to find one that you can like (or at least tolerate), where her nudity will just be a bonus. "The Lady Medic" is very bad indeed. It is set in a military hospital where the new recruits try to fake all sorts of illnesses to avoid reporting for active duty. There is not much more plot than that, and the comedy is vulgar and unfunny. Basically it revolves around urine, but there is also a "taste" of feces, farts, fatness, genitals, etc. Pure class, I tell you. Near the end, the supposedly "charming" hero shows Edwige how much he "loves" her by practically attacking her! Avoid this film. 0.5 out of 4 stars.
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