This movie was a follow-up to the hit Roger Corman quickie The Student
Nurses(unfortunately this film is not a part of the Nurses DVD set) and went along similar lines, but had a completely different
cast and no story carry-over. Once again, the idea was to weave
together a story of young professionals trying to succeed amid the
temptations of the swinging early 70s. The cast are attractive but very
inexperienced unknowns and the script does them few favors. The story
focuses on a drug ring operating out of the hospital where the trainee
nurses work, and they decide to investigate, an action that runs
counter to the usual anti-establishment tone of the series. Beyond that
nothing much of interest happens. Mostly this was just another exercise
in soft-core titillation, with the camera following the girls in their
tight uniforms along hospital corridors, and then off to parties where
they smoke dope, take off their tops and have sex.
I need to try your cum to see if you're healthy.
Please wash my twat with your cock.
The problem here is that the series creators were pretty much out of
fresh ideas and so just recycled the same old character conflicts from
earlier in the series: sexist doctors, older nurses who aren't with it
and rigid administrators who are more concerned with protocol than
patient care. Yawn. As a result this movie is now not very
entertaining, except perhaps as camp. The dialogue probably sounded
fairly hip at the time (or maybe it didn't) but it is pretty laughable
now, and unless the viewer couldn't get enough of 1973 and is looking
for a groovy, mod era experience, and any old one will do, I would
avoid this type of movie if I wasn't an exploitation connoisseur. It's cheap-jack, not very well
or very imaginatively made and even fails to satisfy as exploitation,
since very little sensationalistic happens and nothing happens that we
hadn't already seen in the earlier installments.
Let's see if your pussy is ready to handle tons of cum.
Nurses like to go nude.
So, the story has it that a trio of young nurses get into all sorts of trouble at a hospital:
sweet and sunny Kitty (an endearingly spunky portrayal by lovely blonde
Jean Manson) falls for handsome boat racer Donahue (Zach
Taylor), gutsy and assertive Joanne (well played with spirited aplomb
by fetching brunette Ashley Porter) breaks protocol while aspiring to
be a doctor, and socially conscientious Michelle (a fine performance by
Angela Gibbs) investigates a drug ring operating out of the hospital.
Director Clint Kimbrough, working from a tight and to the point script
by Howard R. Cohen, relates the eventful story at a constant snappy
pace, maintains an amiable tone throughout, and delivers more than
enough yummy female nudity and steamy soft-core sex to satisfy
exploitation movie fans (Manson in particular looks absolutely
delectable sans clothes).
This is what I call pleasing the patient.
I love being nude!
The attractive and appealing cast keeps
things humming: Manson, Porter, and especially Gibbs excel in the lead
roles, with sound support from Allan Arbus as tough, but fair chief
surgeon Krebs, William Joyce as smarmy rich jerk Fairbanks, Mary Doyle
as snippy head nurse Dockett, and Kimberly Hyde as sexy candy striper
Peppermint. Popping up in nifty bits are Dick Miller as a mean,
unsympathetic cop, Sally Kirkland as a woman at a sex clinic, and
Mantan Moreland in his last role as an old man. Legendary director
Samuel Fuller contributes a neat, but regrettably brief appearance as
smooth and ruthless drug ring mastermind Doc Haskell. Daniel Lacambre's
sharp cinematography gives the picture a pleasing sparkling look.
Gregory Prestopino's funky bluesy score and the groovy jammin'
soundtrack further enliven this nifty little flick.
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