Private Nurse

Private Nurse

7.0IMDb Score
Released:1941-08-22
Genre:
Duration:61 min
Director:David Burton
Actors:Jane Darwell, Brenda Joyce, Sheldon Leonard, Robert Lowery, Ann E. Todd
Production:20th Century Fox
Keywords:bfi

Overview:

In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware that her father is a gangster and that her mother is actually still alive. The concerned nurse burdens herself with the difficult responsibility of revealing the unfortunate truth.

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