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Night Nurse

Name: Night Nurse
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1931-07-16
Duration: 72 min
Rating: 6.747

★ 6,7 /10 (93 Votes)

1931 EN 72 min

Overview

Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.

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16/07/1931

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Tells the Naked Truth About Happenings in the Dead of Night!

Genres

Crime Drama

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

72 min

Barbara Stanwyck

Lora Hart

Ben Lyon

Mortie

Joan Blondell

Maloney

Clark Gable

Nick

Blanche Friderici

Mrs. Maxwell

Charlotte Merriam

Mrs. Ritchey

Charles Winninger

Dr. Bell

Edward Nugent

Eagan

Vera Lewis

Miss Dillon

Ralf Harolde

Dr. Milton Ranger

Walter McGrail

The Drunk

Betty Jane Graham

Desney Ritchey (uncredited)

Marcia Mae Jones

Nanny Ritchey (uncredited)

Robert Allen

Party Guest (uncredited)

James Bradbury Jr.

Wounded Prisoner (uncredited)

Jim Farley

Policeman (uncredited)

Willie Fung

Hospital Patient (uncredited)

Allan Lane

Intern (uncredited)

Betty May

Nurse Bryan (uncredited)

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Bob Perry

Mortie's Pal (uncredited)

Jed Prouty

Archie - Father-to-be (uncredited)

Lucille Ward

Woman Wanting Screen for Son's Bed (uncredited)

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# *Night Nurse* (1931) **Directed by:** William A. Wellman **Screenplay by:** Oliver H. P. Garrett and Charles Kenyon (additional dialogue) **Starring:** Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell, and Clark Gable **Review by Dr Usman Latif Khawaja** A towering pre-Code masterwork: William A. Wellman’s *Night Nurse* (1931) stands as one of the most shocking, fast-paced, and physically uncompromised romantic noirs ever produced by the studio system. The absolute structural bullseye is the film’s relentless dramatic velocity. Long before the corporate mandates of the 1934 Hays C…

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