Secrets of a Nurse

December. 02,1938      
Rating:
7.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.

Helen Mack as  Nurse Katherine 'Mack' MacDonald
Dick Foran as  'Killer' Lee Burke
Edmund Lowe as  John Dodge
Leon Ames as  Joe Largo
Horace McMahon as  Larry Carson
Paul Hurst as  Arlington Bysshe 'Slice' Cavanaugh
David Oliver as  'Spud', the valet
Samuel S. Hinds as  Judge Corrigan
Clarence Muse as  'Tiger', Lee's Handler
Alan Ladd as  Hospital Orderly (uncredited)

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Reviews

Cubussoli
1938/12/02

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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HeadlinesExotic
1938/12/03

Boring

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Glucedee
1938/12/04

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

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Justina
1938/12/05

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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