The Young Nurses (1973)

Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds, as they work against a drug ring operating out of the hospital.

Director:

Clint Kimbrough

Writer:

Howard R. Cohen (screenplay)

Stars:

Jeane Manson, Ashley Porter, Angela Elayne Gibbs

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jeane Manson	...	Kitty (as Jean Manson)
Ashley Porter	...	Joanne
Angela Elayne Gibbs	...	Michelle (as Angela Gibbs)
Zack Taylor	...	Donahue
Jack La Rue Jr.	...	Ben
William Joyce	...	Fairbanks
Allan Arbus	...	Krebs
Mary Doyle	...	Nurse Dockett
Don Keefer	...	Chemist
Linda Towne	...	Chris Whiting
Jay Burton	...	Chicken's Manager
John Thompson	...	Chicken
Kimberly Hyde	...	Peppermint
Nan Martin	...	Woman Reporter
Sally Kirkland	...	Woman at Clinic

Storyline

Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds, as they work against a drug ring operating out of the hospital.

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Plot Keywords:

drugs | hospital | nurse | regatta | hand under skirt | 

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Taglines:

They're growing up fast!

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Genres:

Thriller

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

March 1973 (USA)

Also Known As:

Nightingale

Company Credits

Production Co:

New World Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

77 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The cameo by Mantan Moreland was his last film appearence.

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Connections

Featured in 42nd Street Forever, Volume 3: Exploitation Explosion (2008)

User Reviews

Low point of the 'Nurse' series

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 and no story carry-over. 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 are attractive but very inexperienced unknowns and the script does them few favors. The story focuses on a drug ring operating out of the hospital where the trainee nurses work, and they decide to investigate, an action that runs counter to the usual anti-establishment tone of the series. Beyond that nothing much of interest happens. Mostly this was just another exercise in soft-core 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.

The problem here is that the series creators were pretty much out of fresh ideas and so just recycled the same old character conflicts from earlier in the series: sexist doctors, older nurses who aren't with it and rigid administrators who are more concerned with protocol than patient care. Yawn. As a result this movie is now not very entertaining, except perhaps as camp. The dialogue probably sounded fairly hip at the time (or maybe it didn't) but it is pretty laughable now, and unless the viewer couldn't get enough of 1973 and is looking for a groovy, mod era experience, and any old one will do, I would avoid this type of movie at this point. It's cheap-jack, not very well or very imaginatively made and even fails to satisfy as exploitation, since very little sensationalistic happens and nothing happens that we hadn't already seen in the earlier installments.