Fast-paced, very likeable black comedy with Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch and Harvey Keitel as a loudmouthed Los Angeles ambulance crew hustling for custom at $42.50 a casualty. Keitel is brilliantly cast as the drug-peddling cop whos suspended and needs to scrape a few bucks. Raquel Welch revels in the sordidness of the situation and Bill Cosby, of course, takes everything in his cheerfully cynical stride. Larry Hagman, too, is wonderful as a sex-mad nerd.
There would be even more laughs here if there wasnt the unsettling sense that the events and the mercenary nature of the emergency services isnt entirely untrue.