Be Sick... It's Free / Il Medico della Mutua (1968)

Guido Tersilli, giovane medico appena laureato, resosi conto che la libera professione non concede, almeno agli inizi, la tranquillità economica cui aspira, decide di raggiungere il suo scopo arraffando clienti tra l'enorme pletora di mutuati. Gli inizi, però, sono piuttosto scoraggianti. Finalmente la grande occasione: il dottor Bui, che "possiede" qualcosa come duemilatrecento mutuati, è in fin di vita. Scavalcando i colleghi, ansiosi come lui, di gettarsi su quel ben di Dio, il neo-dottore riesce, corteggiando la moglie del morente e, con la vaga promessa di sposarla, a diventare, per così dire l'unico "erede" del "patrimonio".

Storyline
Dr. Guido Tersilli finds himself in the hospital for a nervous breakdown. In fact, this is due to the disproportionate number of patients that the doctor had at his studio. However, a few months before this event Guido was a different person. He was just a simple pediatrician of Rome who performed a few visits for children. But the mother planned for him a great future as a doctor, and taught him to play dirty hospital where Guido worked to gain more customers can be borrowed. Mutual is an association that gave the Italians the State contribution for care by doctors, in Italy the period of maximum growth was precisely that of the sixties in which doctors and primary clinics trying to accumulate for their many customers who had to scrape together more money mutual. Tersilli from a simple pediatrician starts to become a real doctor raking here and there with mutual customers. The turning point occurs when Guido is called by a rich lady to visit her husband. Guido takes just a chance to woo the woman, although he was already engaged to another girl to bring her into his list of patients borrowed. So Guido, under the envy of colleagues, start earning with the rich lady countless customers borrowed touching the 2000 patients. However Guido fails for a long time to heal all the stress due to the ongoing work of the cause exhaustion. In the hospital Guido finds himself face to face with his enemies colleagues who decide to take care of him but stealing a portion of the best clients with mutual. Then Guido Tersilli continue to see patients but staying in bed and talking by phone.

Extra Features:
- Credits

GENERE: Commedia
ANNO: 1968
REGIA: Luigi Zampa
ATTORI: Alberto Sordi, Bice Valori, Sara Franchetti, Evelyn Stewart, Nanda Primavera, Claudio Gora, Franco Scandurra, Leopoldo Trieste, Marisa Traversi, Pupella Maggio, Sandro Merli, Riccardo Paladini, Gastone Pescucci, Massimo Foschi, Sandro Dori, Patrizia De Clara, Filippo De Gara, Tano Cimarosa
PAESE: Italia
DURATA: 98 Min
FORMATO: TECHNISCOPE TECHNICOLOR
DISTRIBUZIONE: EURO INTERN. FILM - GOLDEN VIDEO, FONIT CETRA VIDEO