Night Nurse (1931)

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1. 

   few visible scars

   Great film..
   Slight plot Spoiler; Plot summery.
   "Hi, I'm the new Nurse, so I will take my clothes off"
   "Hi, you will be sharing a room with me, lets both take our clothes off"
   "Time to go to work, lets take our clothes off"
   "Well, that was a hard day at work, tell you what, we could take our clothes off.." 8 years 7 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Early Barbara Stanwyck plays the eponymous Night Nurse in an uneven pre-Code picture from 1931 that looks like a procedural ensemble picture about a hospital at first - what ER might have been like in the 30s - before ditching its medical vignette structure and turning into a crime picture featuring pre-stardom Clarke Gable as a heavy who doesn't mind punching women. And it's for the good, because there's little motive power in that first part. Stanwyck is the nurse with a heart of gold, at first contrasted with Joan Blondell's less committed party girl, and then with a crooked doctor who actively wants little children to die for [reasons]. When our heroine goes into action trying to save her in spite of a household that doesn't care and even obstructs her efforts, it's pretty gripping. Gable is menacing. Stanwyck is fierce. And we cheer for the bootlegging would-be boyfriend coming in to help. A good drunken performance from Charlotte Merriam as the bad mom too. Ralf Harolde as the evil doctor, however, is total pants. Night Nurse plays like a couple episodes of some TV melodrama, but it does lift off in the third act. 5 months 1 week ago
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   Limbesdautomne

   What do you need to establish a good star system in the new talkie era? Great actors. Especially, before the code, great actresses.
   
   
   Read more in French on La Saveur des goûts amers. 1 year 8 months ago

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