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Writers:
Grace Perkins (novel)
Oliver H.P. Garrett (screenplay)
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Release Date:
8 August 1931 (USA) more
Plot:
A nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children. full summary | add synopsis
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(2 articles)
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(From The Auteurs. 24 October 2009, 6:36 AM, PDT)
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Effect on Farmers more (26 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Barbara Stanwyck | ... | Lora Hart | |
| Ben Lyon | ... | Mortie | |
| Joan Blondell | ... | B. Maloney | |
| Clark Gable | ... | Nick, the Chauffeur | |
| Blanche Friderici | ... | Mrs. Maxwell, the Housekeeper (as Blanche Frederici) | |
| Charlotte Merriam | ... | Mrs. Ritchey | |
| Charles Winninger | ... | Dr. Arthur Bell | |
| Edward J. Nugent | ... | Eagan (as Edward Nugent) | |
| Vera Lewis | ... | Miss Dillon, Superintendent of Nurses | |
| Ralf Harolde | ... | Dr. Milton A. Ranger | |
| Walter McGrail | ... | Mack, the Drunk |
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72 min
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Ben Lyon and wife Bebe Daniels leased William Wellman and his wife a house that they occupied during the course of shooting. more
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Continuity: When Lora holds up the thank you note from Mortie, the position of her hands completely changes between the closeup of the note and the shot of Lora holding it. more
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Maloney: There's only one guy in the world that can do a nurse any good and that's a patient with dough! Just catch one of them with a high fever and a low pulse and make him think you saved his life and you'll be getting somewhere. more
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Featured in Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008) (TV) more
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Onward Christian Soldiers more
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| Missing child? | frankgaipa |
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Remember that a great part of America was rural when this film came out. When you watch it, try to put yourself in the place of one of those folks who has come in from the farm on a Saturday night to see a moving picture at the Bijou. Whoa, Nelly! Undergarments, sexual innuendo, moral ambiguity galore! An urban environment where only the toughest survive. What must those farmers have thought of faraway New York City? Until the Code kicked in, films like these did a lot to move small-town America out of the sexually repressed dark ages. How you gonna keep them down on the farm after they've seen Paree? A revolution parallel to the release of the first jazz recordings by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. It's all been downhill from there! Oh, and is Barbara Stanwyck not the perfect vehicle for this revolution? A hard-as-nails demeanor that only comes out when it needs to, otherwise she's just an innocent looking charmer.