What is Doctors' Wives / The Love Machine about?

DOCTORS’ WIVES, 1971, Sony Repertory, 101 min. Dir. George Schaeffer. Dyan Cannon, Janice Rule, Rachel Roberts and Cara Williams are the disgruntled spouses of high-profile doctors Richard Crenna, Gene Hackman, Carroll O’Conner and John Colicos. When their hubbies start focusing more on career than marital bliss, the wives begin indulging in sex, booze and drugs to assauge their lonely lives. Soon one of them ends up murdered. THE LOVE MACHINE, 1978, Sony Repertory, 108 min. Dir. Jack Haley, Jr. John Phillip Law is Robin Stone, an unscrupulous TV executive who will figuratively and literally screw anyone he has to in order to rise to the top. He becomes entangled in liaisons with various beauties, and has to contend with Dyan Cannon, Jody Wexler and petulant gay photographer, Jerry Nelson (David Hemmings), as he realizes his ambitions. But the precarious balancing act soon causes his ego-driven empire to begin to crumble.

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What is Doctors' Wives / The Love Machine about?: DOCTORS’ WIVES, 1971, Sony Repertory, 101 min. Dir. George Schaeffer. Dyan Cannon, Janice Rule, Rachel Roberts and Cara Williams are the disgruntled spouses of high-profile doctors Richard Crenna, Gene Hackman, Carroll O’Conner and John Colicos. When their hubbies start focusing more on career than marital bliss, the wives begin indulging in sex, booze and drugs to assauge their lonely lives. Soon one of them ends up murdered.

THE LOVE MACHINE, 1978, Sony Repertory, 108 min. Dir. Jack Haley, Jr. John Phillip Law is Robin Stone, an unscrupulous TV executive who will figuratively and literally screw anyone he has to in order to rise to the top. He becomes entangled in liaisons with various beauties, and has to contend with Dyan Cannon, Jody Wexler and petulant gay photographer, Jerry Nelson (David Hemmings), as he realizes his ambitions. But the precarious balancing act soon causes his ego-driven empire to begin to crumble.