L'infermiera di notte (1979)

Director:

Mariano Laurenti

Writers:

Franco Milizia (writer) &
Mariano Laurenti (writer)

Release Date:

29 June 1979 (West Germany)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Gloria Guida stars in this Italian sex-comedy in which she plays a private nurse who is involved in a family struggle for the estate of the ailing old man she cares for.

Plot Keywords:

Nurse | Sex Comedy | Italian Sex Comedy | Private Nurse | Beautiful Woman

Cast

Gloria Guida	...	Angela Della Torre
Alvaro Vitali	...	Peppino
Leo Colonna	...	Carlo Pischella
Mario Carotenuto	...	Zio Saverio / Alfredo
Annamaria Clementi	...	Wife of boxer
Lucio Montanaro	...	D.J.
Ermelinda De Felice	...	Regina, la Cameriera
Vittoria Di Silverio	...	Uncle of Angela
Giorgio Soffritti
Nicola Walper
Vittorio Daverio
Valentino Simeoni	...	Junk-man
Jimmy il Fenomeno	...	Postman
Francesca Romana Coluzzi	...	Lucia - wife of Nicola
Paola Senatore	...	Zaira - lover of Nicola

Runtime:

France:90 min | West Germany:80 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:16 | France:-12

Filming Locations:

Ceglie Messapica, Brindisi, Apulia, Italy

Company:

Dania Film

Goofs:

Continuity: The first time Alfredo is prowling around in the middle of the night, you can clearly see light shining in through the windows.

Movie Connections:

References Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Soundtrack:

La Musica è

Par-for- the-course Gloria Guida sex comedy

The print I saw of this Italian sex comedy was dubbed into Spanish for some reason,which turned out to be a good way to watch it (I don't understand Italian very well and the English-dubbed versions of films like this are often downright annoying). The language doesn't matter much though since these kind of Italian comedies feature the most broad, slapstick humor imaginable--kind of like the Three Stooges with lots of gratuitous nudity.

Perennial Italian buffoons(stooges)Lino Banfi and Alvaro Vitali play, respectively, a philandering dentist and his dimwitted assistant. An elderly, apparently ailing long-lost "uncle" of Banfi's wife comes to stay at his flat, but little does anyone suspect he's actually a jewel thief in disguise out to steal a jewel hidden in the apartment. Banfi, however, sees this as an opportunity to hire the very sexy niece of one of his patients (played by the very sexy Gloria Guida) as an "enfermera del noche" (night nurse) for this supposedly sick old man, all so he can pull such hare-brained stunts as sneaking a space heater into her room to get her to take off her uniform. Guida's nurse gets involved in the diamond heist, but also falls for Banfi's handsome son (the very unattractive Banfi always somehow manages to have a handsome son). The son meanwhile is also being pursued by the sexy, hot-to-trot wife (Anna-Maria Clementi) of a boxer who lives next door. And future porn star Paola Senatore rounds out the cast as Banfi's luscious mistress (yeah, right).

Guida, Clemeti,and Senatore all strip off regularly (why would anyone watch this nonsense otherwise?). This film came late in Guida's 70's sex comedy career, and it's nice to see her play a somewhat more "adult" role--i.e. a nurse rather than a wayward schoolgirl, underage prostitute, or (ha, ha) innocent virgin. Even dubbed into Spanish, it's obvious here that Guida was improving as a comic actress. Unfortunately, this was also about the time she took up a second career as a disco singer, and she belts out a number here (there is no God!). But seriously, if I have to watch ANYONE sing disco I'd at least prefer it be Gloria Guida in one of her skin-tight disco body suits (and,for what it's worth, I've heard the real actress sing in another Italian language movie, and she's A LOT better than the braying Spanish "singer" who dubs her in this movie). Movies like this appeal to a VERY select audience (basically me when I'm REALLY drunk),but if you like them in general, this one's pretty par for for the course.