Secrets of a Nurse

Secrets of a Nurse (1938)

DramaCrimeRomance

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.

Director: Arthur Lubin
Writers: Lester Cole, Thomas Lennon.

Casts

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

Crew