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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 72 minutes
Theatrical Release Date: August 08, 1931
Editorial Review:
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Hellooo, nurse! Leonard Maltin introduces this "sordid and seamy" entry in the Forbidden Hollywood series of vintage pre-Hays Code melodramas that scandalized audiences with their prurient content. Dated to be sure (when was the last time you heard about crooks taking someone "for a ride?"), but this 1931 gem directed by William Wellman (Public Enemy) is still pretty strong medicine. It has sassy dialogue ("You can't show me anything," a doctor tells two comely interns changing into their uniforms, "I just came from the delivery room") and a potent plot about two children being starved to death for their trust fund by a scheming chauffeur. Barbara Stanwyck is just what the doctor ordered as aspiring nurse Laura Hart, with saucy Joan Blondell as Maloney, her wisecracking buddy ("There's only one guy in the world who can do a nurse any good," she advises Laura, "a patient with dough"). In an early villainous role that put him on the Hollywood map, Clark Gable costars as Eddie, the chauffeur, who dispenses a sock in the jaw (off-screen) to Stanwyck's kisser when she interferes in this "screwy case." Ben Lyon is Mortie, the good-hearted bootlegger, who comes to Laura's rescue. --Donald Liebenson
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Night Nurse is a gripping, taut drama starring the great Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell and a rather young Clark Gable. The convincing acting always held my attention and the plot moves along at a good pace.
The action begins when Lora Hart (Barbara Stanwyck) gets a job as a nurse trainee at a hospital--after she shows a little bit of her leg to Dr. Arthur Bell (Charles Winninger), that is. Lora soon meets and befriends another nurse trainee named B. Maloney (Joan Blondell).
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This is an impressive hard-boiled 1931 thriller that has lost none of its allure or vigor. I have always liked thrillers set in places where strange goings-on captivate the imagination. Barbara Stanwyck is excellent as the nurse outstanding in her unsentimental approach. Joan Blondell also stands out with her vivacious and humorous performance. Clark Gable, in an early role, demonstrates the masculine allure and screen presence that shot him into stardom. This is an outstanding thriller directed ... Read More
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This is truly a great precode starring that queen of the precodes Barbara Stanwyck. However, in this particular movie Barbara is not the femme fatale she often plays. Instead she a nurse working the night shift. During her tenure she encounters two children that are mysteriously wasting away. It turns out there is a plot to do away with the children, and the steely Barbara, along with a rather shady male companion, work together to solve the mystery and save the children.
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When you combine the pre code era of Hollywood film making, Warner Brothers Studios, and no nonsense star Barbara Stanwyck in the one package you really have a movie marriage made in heaven and that's just what you get in "Night Nurse". Here we have a rough, raw and no holds barred story about the dark side of the medical profession and the equally dark characters that inhabit it. Undeniably a product of its time (1931), this little movie pulls no punches in its stark depiction of medical malpractice, ... Read More
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NIGHT NURSE was one of the last movies to come out of Hollywood that were untouched by the politically correct morality of the day: the Hays Code. Too many stuffed shirts were troubled by the exactly the same power and electricity that infused films like NIGHT NURSE. Director William Wellman shows the sleazy underside of a medical profession that has not changed materially since 1932. Far too many doctors were in it only for the big bucks while the true blue torchcarriers of Hippocrates were the nurses. ... Read More
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