Secrets of a Nurse
# A STARTLING CONFESSION THAT COULD SAVE THE MAN SHE LOVED...BUT HER PROFESSIONAL PLEDGE SWORE HER TO SILENCE!
📜 Overview:
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.
🌏 Languages Available:
English
📆 Date Released:
1938-12-02
⌚ Running Time:
75 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
3.0
Beloved Cast
Nurse Katherine 'Mack' MacDonald
Helen Mack
'Killer' Lee Burke
Dick Foran
John Dodge
Edmund Lowe
Joe Largo
Leon Ames
Larry Carson
Horace McMahon
Arlington Bysshe 'Slice' Cavanaugh
Paul Hurst
'Spud', the valet
David Oliver
Judge Corrigan
Samuel S. Hinds
'Tiger', Lee's Handler
Clarence Muse
Hospital Orderly (uncredited)
Alan Ladd
