Ladies' Doctor (Italian: Il ginecologo della mutua) is a 1977 commedia sexy all'italiana film directed by Joe D'Amato.
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Cast
Renzo Montagnani as Dr. Franco Giovanardi
Paola Senatore as Pamela
Mario Carotenuto as Lawyer Augusto Natisone
Aldo Fabrizi as Dr. Pietro Massone
Massimo Serato as Dr. Guido Lo Bianco
Daniela Doria as Tina Arlotti
Loretta Persichetti as Mara
Isabella Biagini as Giovanna
Toni Ucci as Nestore Arlotti
Riccardo Salvino as Filippo
Lorraine De Selle as Mara's Lover
Marina Hedman as Miss Natisone
Anna Bonaiuto as Rosalia Saggarrò
Stefania Spugnini as Pregnant girl
Dirce Funari as Mimma
Luciano Bonanni as Arlotti's Bodyguard
Production
The film was produced by Kristal Film. Initially, the film was announced with Edmondo Amati serving as producer and with a different cast, which in addition of Renzo Montagnani and Paola Senatore included Gloria Guida, Jacques Dufilho, Silvia Dionisio and Simonetta Stefanelli. Alberto Lupo was offered a role but refused.
Release
The film was released in Italian cinemas by Fida on 11 February 1977. The version released in the United Kingdom was heavily cut.
Reception
Italian film critic Marco Giusti described it as the most expensive, yet also the most ordinary, among the erotic films directed by D'Amato, and pointed out that the film is highly derivative of Luigi Zampa's Be Sick... It's Free and of Mariano Laurenti's comedies of the time. Corriere della Sera film critic Maurizio Porro described it as a film that "trivializes everything it touches and involutes each and every joke".