Summary
A crumbling alpine rest-home—half morgue, half music-hall—exhales its last gasp of chloroform and cheap gin when Eddie, the doctor’s rubber-boned factotum, inherits the keys. Overnight he jettisons the vinegar-faced matrons, imports a caravan of rouge-tipped chorines, and turns the ward into a phosphorescent carnival where cracked octogenarians bloom like hothouse orchids. The film pirouettes between the antiseptic pallor of death and the molten shimmy of burlesque, letting cracked laughter seep into bedsores until even the ECG machines begin to samba.
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In a private sanitarium, where the patients are half dead old men, Eddie is the doctor's assistant, and the Doc puts him in full charge. Eddie fires the homely nurses and gets a bunch of stranded show girls in their place. The girls do wonderful things to the morale of the old men.
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