The Young Nurses (1973)

Director:

Clint Kimbrough

Writer:

Howard R. Cohen (screenplay)

Release Date:

March 1973 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

In this hospital the patients come first!

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Drugs | Hospital | Nurse | Regatta | Hand Under Skirt

Cast

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
Terrill Maguire	...	Girl at Clinic
Dick Miller	...	Cop
Samuel Fuller	...	Doc Haskell (as Sam Fuller)
James Anthony	...	Male Nurse
Jeff Young	...	Anesthetist
Tom Baker	...	Floyd
Caro Kenyatta	...	Lester
Mantan Moreland	...	Old Man (as Man Tan Moreland)

Directed by
Clint Kimbrough		(as Clinton Kimbro)

Writing credits
Howard R. Cohen		(screenplay)

Produced by
Julie Corman	....	producer

Original Music by
Gregory Prestopino

Cinematography by
Daniel Lacambre

Film Editing by
Karen Johnson

Production Design by
Tim Kincaid

Art Direction by
Barbara Peeters

Makeup Department
Ron Foreman	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Nicole Scott	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Pancho Kohner	....	second unit director
George Van Noy	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Jim Heinlen	....	boom operator
James M. Tanenbaum	....	sound (as James Evergreen)

Camera and Electrical Department
Don Clark	....	gaffer
Sam Clement	....	camera operator
Michael Ferris	....	grip (as Mike Ferris)
Leslie Otis	....	assistant camera

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Linda Towne	....	wardrobe

Editorial Department
Hal Harrison	....	assistant editor (as Hal L. Harrison Jr.)
George Van Noy	....	editing supervisor

Other crew
Frances Doel	....	script supervisor
John Murray	....	location manager (as Johnny Murray)

Production Companies

• New World Pictures

Distributors

• New World Pictures (1973) (USA) (theatrical)
• New Concorde Home Entertainment (2003) (USA) (DVD)
• 23rd Century (2004) (UK) (DVD)
• Charter Entertainment (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Shout! Factory (2012) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

USA:77 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R | Iceland:L

Company:

New World Pictures

Trivia:

The cameo by Mantan Moreland was his last film appearence.

Movie Connections:

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

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.