Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Night Nurse


Night Nurse (1931)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022208/]

The Gist:
A B movie made before the Hays censorship was enacted, more interesting as a study of film than as a film itself. It tries to scandalize the audience with scantily clad nurses (see above) and seedy bootleggers, but its obviously going to seem tame to a modern audience. The story is fairly mild beyond these qualities, but in trying to be somewhat exploitative the film manages to capture some honesty that you wouldn't see in many hollywood films of the time, or in social life at all (i.e. Nurses trying to find a doctor to seduce and marry for his money).

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