History Film / NightNurse

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* ShesGotLegs: There’s [[http://pics.imcdb.org/0is510/nurse3so1.3966.jpg a money shot of Maloney helping Lora take off her stockings]] and the camera lingers on Lora’s legs.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Dr. Ranger has a tic where he’s constantly sniffing his nose like a coke addict.
** Mortie lets Lora work [[UnusualEuphemism “the stick”]] of his car.

* AttemptedRape: The drunk house guest/boyfriend of Mrs. Richie tries to rape Lora, and she literally has to fight him off.

* InVinoVeritas: The LooseLips version where Mrs. Maxwell gets into Mortie's booze stash. [[spoiler: Mrs. Maxwell says that she has proof of a plot; Nick and Ranger are starving the little girls for their trust fund. She over heard Nick on the telephone.]]

!!Tropes related with this work:

* DeadlyEuphemism: Mortie says that if Lora doesn’t like someone he can easily “take him for a ride,” if necessary. [[spoiler: This is what he does to get rid of Nick.]]

* EatingTheEyeCandy: The drunk boyfriend of Mrs. Richie checks out not only Lora as she tries to help Mrs. Richie, but also Mrs. Richie as Lora undresses her.

* AbusiveParents: Mrs. Richie doesn’t care for her little girls; she only cares about where her next drink is coming from.

* WouldHurtAChild: Both Nick and Dr. Ranger [[spoiler: slowly starve the Richie girls to get their trust fund money]].

* TheAlcoholic: Mrs. Richie is always drunk and ready to spend time with one of her “big boys”.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Lora calls her bootlegger friend, "the Bootlegger". He calls her “my pal”.

* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: Mortie took a bullet rather than sell a rival bootlegger's dangerously bad hooch, knocks over a delicatessen to get milk to save a dying child, and upon hearing about the plot against the children immediately offers to have Nick "taken for a ride".

* RunningGag: Lora and Maloney's head nurse, Miss Dillon, always clears her throat, so they often make fun of her by clearing their throats unnecessarily.

* RunningGag: Lora and Maloney's head nurse, Miss Dillon, always clears her throat, so they both make fun of it often.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Lora’s friend calls her bootlegger friend, "the Bootlegger". He calls her “my pal”.

* WouldHitAGirl: Nick punches Lora as she tries to call for a doctor because Mrs. Richie needs her stomach pumped. [[spoiler: We later find out why: He doesn’t want Mrs. Richie’s drunkenness publicized because that means she would custody of her children, and Nick would lose the opportunity to marry her and steal her daughter’s trust fund money.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: Both Nick and Dr. Ranger slowly starve the Richie girls to get their trust fund money.

* {{Fainting}}: Subverted as Lora almost faints from witnesses a surgery that could have her expelled from her nurse training, but is saved by Maloney. Then PlayedStraight as Lora finally faints when no one is in the room.

* InVinoVeritas: The LooseLips version: [[spoiler: Mrs. Maxwell gives away the plot of Nick and Ranger to starve the little girls for their trust fund.]]

* BigEyedIdealist: Lora begins nursing to pursue her dream of taking care of others, and she likes it, until the situation with the Richies begin.

* DeadlyEuphemism: Mortie says that if Lora doesn’t like someone he can easily “take him for a ride” if necessary. [[spoiler: This is what he does to get rid of Nick.]]

* InVinoVeritas: The LooseLips version: [[spoiler: Mrs. Maxwell gives away the plot of Nick and Rangers to starve the little girls for their trust fund.]]

* ShesGotLegs: There’s [[http://pics.imcdb.org/0is510/nurse3so1.3966.jpg a shot of Maloney helping Lora take off her stockings]] and the camera lingers on Lora’s legs.

** Mortie lets Lora work [[UnusualEuphemism“the stick”]] of his car.

* MeaningfulName: Lora ‘’Hart’’.

* AbusiveParents: Mrs. Richie doesn’t care for her little girls just about her next drink.

* AttemptedRape: The drunk houseguest/boyfriend of Mrs. Richie tries to rape Lora, and she literally has to fight him off.
* {{Bookends}}: The film begins and ends more or less with the POV shots of an ambulance driver.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Lora’s friend calls her bootlegger friend, the Bootleggers. He calls her “my pal”.

''Night Nurse'' (1931) is a [[ThePreCodeEra pre-code]] drama directed by Creator/WilliamAWellman starring Creator/BarbaraStanwyck, Creator/JoanBlondell, and Creator/ClarkGable.

The film follows the nursing life of Lora Hart (Stanwyck) and her sarcastic friend, Miss Maloney (Blondell). They go through nurse training, and eventually get a cozy job taking care of Mrs. Richie’s two sick girls. However, Lora has a feeling that these girls are being starved and that the chauffeur, Nick (Gable), has something to do with it. With the help of a kind bootlegger, Mortie (Ben Lyon), and a good doctor, Dr. Bell (CharlesWinninger), Lora saves the little girls from certain death.

''Night Nurse'' (1931) is a pre-code drama directed by Creator/WilliamAWellman starring Creator/BarbaraStanwyck, Creator/JoanBlondell, and Creator/ClarkGable.

* ShesGotLegs: There’s a shot of Maloney helping Lora take of her stockings and the camera lingers on Lora’s legs.

* DeadlyEuphenism: Mortie says that if Lora doesn’t like someone he can easily “take him for a ride” if necessary. [[spoiler: This is what he does to get rid of Nick.]]

** Mortie lets Lora work [[UnusualEuphenism“the stick”]] of his car.