Movies

Night Nurse (1931) Stanwyck, Blondell and Gable at their youngest. Joan Blondell is especially wide-eyed and full of pep - when I get my time machine working, I'm heading for 1931. There is a satisfactory amount of dress-removal and capering around in scanties, and Gable is an uncharacteristic violent lout. Of note is the forgotten Ben Lyon as Stanwyck's bootlegger pal. Not the greatest story ever, ending with a weird note of moral dubiousness, and there is one strange overlong scene in which an actress seems to be ad-libbing her excessive drunkenness (badly) while Stanwyck just stands there looking angry and impatient. Keeps your interest all the way through and lets you forget what a disaster everything is now. 8/10