Synopsis
Night Nurse (1931) is a William Wellman crime drama you can watch online on iFILM, headlined by a young Barbara Stanwyck.
Trainee nurse Lora Hart takes a night job caring for two little girls who keep getting sicker by the day. The doctor looks the other way, the mother is drunk by noon, and Lora soon pieces together the ugly truth: the children are being slowly starved for their inheritance, with a menacing chauffeur named Nick pulling the strings. Her one ally is a grateful bootlegger whose gunshot wound she once kept off the police record.
Made before the Hays Code clamped down, the film gets away with what censors would soon forbid — nurses undressing on camera, violence shown without varnish. Joan Blondell sparkles as Lora's wisecracking roommate, and Clark Gable, not yet a star, turns up as a genuinely frightening heavy dressed in black. Seventy lean minutes of pre-Code Hollywood at its boldest. Stream Night Nurse (1931) online on iFILM.
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