Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds.Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds.Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds.
Lawrence P. Casey
- Jim Caspar
- (as Lawrence Casey)
Katherine MacGregor
- Miss Boswell
- (as Scottie MacGregor)
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- TriviaBarbara Leigh later revealed that during her audition interview, director Stephanie Rothman asked her to expose her breasts "to see if they were worth photographing" because the role involved a nude scene on the beach. Leigh had never done that before and was very embarrassed, but since it was a woman asking, she did it.
- GoofsThe close-ups of Priscilla's eyes during the beach love scene when she and Les are tripping on acid show her pupils to be very small. On LSD, the pupils become extremely dilated.
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Lynn: [as Victor forces his way into the passenger seat] Get out of here!
Victor Charlie: I'm not in yet! Besides, a woman should be protected, no matter how crazy she is.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-in Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 8 (2002)
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... but still not really very good. The idea with this series was to weave together a story of young professionals trying to succeed amid the temptations of the swinging early 70s and within a fairly rigid institutional setting. The very attractive cast of unknowns included striking Playboy regular Barbara Leigh and former Miss Arkansas Karen Carlson, both of whom got quite a bit of work throughout the rest of the 70s, 'bouncing' from one TV show to another. The actresses acquit themselves pretty well despite the limitations of time and budget and their own comparative inexperience. The script also occasionally tried to work in a serious issue. For instance, one of the girls becomes pregnant at a party and has to go through a rather humiliating interview with an unsympathetic medical establishment to get approval for an abortion. This is quite a good scene and fits well with the strong anti- establishment tone of everything.
Mostly though, this was just an exercise in soft-core titillation, with the camera following attractive young women in their tight uniforms along hospital corridors, and then off to parties where they take off their tops, smoke dope and have sex. The script cross-cuts from one character's tribulations to another, but once each girl's central issue has played itself out, nothing really comes together. Movie does not have much of an ending. It just tapers off and stops.
Writer-director Stephanie Rothman tried her best to make the proceedings relevant and the dialogue probably sounded fairly hip at the time (or maybe it didn't) but it is pretty laughable now, as are the attempts to make the party scenes seem exciting by using a lot of way out psychedelic camera angles and edits (spins, tilts etc.). That stuff was a few years old by the time this movie was made and almost becoming clichéd.
The movie was a big drive-in hit at the time, of course, mostly thanks to a sexed-up ad campaign that promised more than the movie delivered.
Mostly though, this was just an exercise in soft-core titillation, with the camera following attractive young women in their tight uniforms along hospital corridors, and then off to parties where they take off their tops, smoke dope and have sex. The script cross-cuts from one character's tribulations to another, but once each girl's central issue has played itself out, nothing really comes together. Movie does not have much of an ending. It just tapers off and stops.
Writer-director Stephanie Rothman tried her best to make the proceedings relevant and the dialogue probably sounded fairly hip at the time (or maybe it didn't) but it is pretty laughable now, as are the attempts to make the party scenes seem exciting by using a lot of way out psychedelic camera angles and edits (spins, tilts etc.). That stuff was a few years old by the time this movie was made and almost becoming clichéd.
The movie was a big drive-in hit at the time, of course, mostly thanks to a sexed-up ad campaign that promised more than the movie delivered.
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- $150,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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