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Secrets of a Nurse

A STARTLING CONFESSION THAT COULD SAVE THE MAN SHE LOVED...BUT HER PROFESSIONAL PLEDGE SWORE HER TO SILENCE!

5.5(4)19381h 15m1

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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Released
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Language
English
  • judge
  • nurse
  • prayer
  • death row
  • murder
  • capital punishment
  • hospital
  • gambler
  • wrongful conviction
  • framed for murder
  • fixed fight
  • criminal lawyer

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Director

Arthur Lubin

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United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical2 Dec 1938

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Secrets of a Nurse was released on 2 December 1938.

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