Secrets of a Nurse (1938)
1h 15m
Running Time
December 2, 1938Release Date
Secrets of a Nurse (1938)
1h 15m
Running Time
December 2, 1938Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
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Cast & Crew.
Helen Mack
Nurse Katherine 'Mack' MacDonald
Dick Foran
'Killer' Lee Burke
Edmund Lowe
John Dodge
Leon Ames
Joe Largo
Horace McMahon
Larry Carson
Paul Hurst
Arlington Bysshe 'Slice' Cavanaugh
David Oliver
'Spud', the valet
Samuel S. Hinds
Judge Corrigan
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
nurse
murder
hospital
wrongful conviction
judge
prayer
gambler
criminal lawyer
death row
capital punishment
framed for murder
boxing manager
fixed fight
boxer hero
nurse patient relationship
drugged water
Wiki.
Secrets of a Nurse is a 1938 American sports drama film directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Edmund Lowe, Helen Mack, and Dick Foran.Universal liked the film so much, they assigned Lubin to make Forgotten Boys a film about young men facing unemployment out of college. (It appears this film was never made).
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