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Crime, Drama 72 min NR
Rotten Tomatoes83%IMDb
Tells the Naked Truth About Happenings in the Dead of Night!
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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# *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 Code came into effect to sanitize American cinema, *Night Nurse* dared to depict institutional corruption, child endangerment, and raw underworld violence with a level-headed grit that completely puts standard Hollywood melodrama to shame. ## The Pre-Code Battlefront: Barbara Stanwyck’s Defiance **The Queen of Resilience:** Barbara Stanwyck delivers a breathtaking, powerhouse performance as Lora Hart. She completely rejects the traditional studio trope of the fragile, weeping nurse. When she discovers that the two wealthy, innocent children in her care are being systematically starved and drugged to death by a c
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