Kids in charge, adults in beds—Australian chaos with a Bugsy Malone twist.
Doctors and Nurses is a gimmick film, a down under age reversal trick in the style of Alan Parker's 'Bugsy Malone'. A bunch of kids play the game of Doctors and Nurses - of the inoffensive dress-up kind - tending a bunch of adults suffering from a variety of ailments.
Costume
Kids in surgical scrubs and adult-sized chaos.
Director
Maurice Murphy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is essentially Australia's answer to the British tradition of 'let's put kids in adult situations and watch civilization crumble'—think of it as a colonial cousin to Bugsy Malone with worse songs and more antiseptic.
Bert Newton, playing the presumably long-suffering Mr. Cody, was one of Australia's most beloved TV personalities—imagine your country's Dick Clark getting medically terrorized by fourth-graders.
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