Aug 15, 2012

Candy Stripe Nurses

Naughty 70's nurses!
After discussing some legendary films that are indeed masterpieces in their own right, it is time to return to the core of our movies blog: B movies, and what better way of returning to the very core of our blog it is to continue reviewing Roger Corman's legendary exploitation films catalogue. So today we enter a recent 4 movie DVD addition to the Roger Corman's Cult Classics collection: All Night Marathon, The Nurses Collection! The amazing 4 movies set feature Candy Stripe Nurses, Night Call Nurses, Private Duty Nurses & The Young Nurses.  Obviously, this time Mr. Roger Corman wants to study the many naughty cravings we all had & still have about the urban legend of those horny nurses willing not only to give you your medicine, but also willing to make your sex craving dreams come true.

Nurses like treesomes.
So today we'll start with 1974's Candy Stripe Nurses. Let's see if I got the plot correctly. I believe it went something like this: topless woman, topless woman, naked woman, topless woman, naked woman, topless woman, 2(!!) topless women. There was also a subplot about one of the nurses trying to help a patient beat a charge of armed robbery, so definitely you're in for a sexploitation treat.

Let me check your cock, you may be ill.
I so need to get my twat ready for my patients.
Rape a nurse!
In all seriousness, I rather enjoyed parts of this movie. I know this is going to be hard to believe, but the acting by the women playing the nurses was wonderful. Usually the women in these types of movies simply have to speak English and look good without their clothes on. (Although sometimes the speaking English part isn't necessary.) Every one of the actresses in "Candy Stripe Nurses" did an admirable job and all of their characters were sympathetic ones. That really helped to partially overcome the cheesy plot. I've seen A LOT worse '70s movies similar to this one. Kinda fun little flick...but nothing that'll blow you away. 

Nurse my cock bitch!
Fuck a nurse!
There's one reason and one reason only that I bring CANDY STRIPE NURSES to your attention -- its connection to another movie that's both more famous and rather infamous. The opening credits for NURSES attribute the music to the duo of Thompson and Tabor. It turns out that Tabor is none other than Eron Tabor, the actor who played one of the four rapists (Johnny, the gas station guy) in I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. (My source is the commentary on the Millennium Edition DVD of GRAVE.) Unfortunately, there's no way to tell how much of the music was composed by Mr. Tabor. Also unfortunately -- but not surprisingly -- there was no attempt to enhance the soundtrack for the DVD release, and there's significant wow in the music throughout.
As far as the movie itself goes, it's an attempt to graft serious drama onto silly sex comedy, and in my opinion, the graft didn't take.Anyways sexploitation is good for what it is, this isn't an Oscar winning movie and I'm sure you're not here looking for that kind of shit. Long live Roger Corman!

Next entry we'll continue reviewing these naughty nurses films.

Here a movie excerpt:


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