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Secrets of a Nurse

Secrets of a Nurse

# A STARTLING CONFESSION THAT COULD SAVE THE MAN SHE LOVED...BUT HER PROFESSIONAL PLEDGE SWORE HER TO SILENCE!
Drama   Crime   Romance
📜 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

Helen Mack original image
Nurse Katherine 'Mack' MacDonald
Helen Mack
Dick Foran original image
'Killer' Lee Burke
Dick Foran
Edmund Lowe original image
John Dodge
Edmund Lowe
Leon Ames original image
Joe Largo
Leon Ames
Horace McMahon original image
Larry Carson
Horace McMahon
Paul Hurst original image
Arlington Bysshe 'Slice' Cavanaugh
Paul Hurst
David Oliver original image
'Spud', the valet
David Oliver
Samuel S. Hinds original image
Judge Corrigan
Samuel S. Hinds
Clarence Muse original image
'Tiger', Lee's Handler
Clarence Muse
Alan Ladd original image
Hospital Orderly (uncredited)
Alan Ladd

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