Private Duty Nurses (1971)

Director:

George Armitage

Writer:

George Armitage

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

It's what they do off duty that's really private!

Plot:

A trio of beautiful private-duty nurses that practice more than the medical arts must confront underground drug traffickers, racism and murder in their local hospital. |

Plot Keywords:

Nurse | Panties | Erotic 70s | Waterbed | Rape Victim

Cast

Katherine Cannon	...	Spring (as Kathy Cannon)
Joyce Williams	...	Lola
Pegi Boucher	...	Lynn
Joseph Kaufmann	...	Dr. Doug Selden
Dennis Redfield	...	Domino
Robert F. Simon	...	Dr. Sutton
Morris Buchanan	...	Kirby
Herbert Jefferson Jr.	...	Dr. Elton
Paul Hampton	...	Dewey
Paul Gleason	...	Dr. McClintock
David Osterhout	...	Hank Ibsen
Cliff Carnell	...	Bartender
Meredith Duncan	...	Angela Selden
George Sawaya	...	Ahmed
Dinah Anne Rogers	...	Nurse Brandt (as Dinah Rogers)
Joe Wertheimer	...	Sulif
Stanley Bennett Clay	...	Leo (as Stanley Clay)
Nancy Valentine	...	Waitress
Elizabeth Ann Coffin	...	Secretary (as Elizabeth Coffin)
Mike Payne	...	Dr. Black
Guy Remsen	...	Dr. Wasp
Janear Hines	...	June
Robert Tessier	...	Super bouncer
Dennis Thorlakson	...	Mailman
Doug Fieger	...	Band member - Sky
Robbie Stawinski	...	Band member - Sky
John Coury	...	Band member - Sky
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Brent Armitage	...	Boy On Beach (uncredited)

Directed by
George Armitage

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
George Armitage

Produced by
George Armitage	....	producer
Roger Corman	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Sky

Cinematography by
John McNichol

Film Editing by
Alan Collins

Set Decoration by
Joe Wertheimer

Camera and Electrical Department
Dennis Bishop	....	grip
Scott Lloyd-Davies	....	assistant cameraman
John C. Murray	....	gaffer
Robert Tessier	....	key grip

Other crew
David Osterhout	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• New World Pictures

Distributors

• New World Pictures (1971) (USA) (theatrical)
• New Concorde (2003) (USA) (DVD)
• Shout! Factory (2012) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

"Young L.A. Nurses 3" - USA (alternative title)

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R

Company:

New World Pictures

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Anatomy of a Nurse Film (2012) (V)

Tacky 'Nurse' series entry

This movie was a follow-up to the hit Roger Corman quickie The Student Nurses and went along similar lines, but had a completely different cast, a much schlockier tone and no story carry-over whatsoever. Once again, the idea was to weave together a story of young professionals trying to succeed amid the temptations of the swinging early 70s. The cast of attractive but inexperienced unknowns try their best, but the way out story line does them few favors. There is the usual soft-core cinema titillation, with the camera following the girls in their tight uniforms along hospital corridors, and then off to parties where they smoke dope, take off their tops and have sex, but after the first movie it began to seem repetitive. So, instead of focusing on the career and personal tribulations of the girls as the first movie did, this movie's makers went all out trying to get in everything ELSE they could think of that was relevant to the day and as a result this movie is ludicrously overloaded with sensationalistic exploitation movie nonsense - murderers, drug pushers etc. - which shifts the focus away from the characters and not to any good purpose. The characters aren't very interesting, but neither is the story.

The resulting movie is now rather horribly dated, totally unbelievable and not very much fun to sit through, even as camp. The dialogue probably sounded fairly hip at the time (or maybe it didn't) but it is pretty laughable now, as are the attempts to make the party scenes seem exciting by using a lot of way out psychedelic camera angles and tricky edits (spins, tilts etc.). That stuff was actually a few years old by the time this movie was made and had become a tad clichéd.