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Night Nurse
* No Blood * Not Violent * No Strong Language * No Sexual Situations * * No Nudity *
Australia/1977/Color/ Min./Rated
Director........Igor Auzins
Screenplay......Ron McLean
Music...........Slorregt & Clark
Producer........Robert Bruning
Cast: The Diva................Divena Whitehouse
Prudence................Kay Taylor
Boyfriend...............Gary Day
Clara...................Kate Fitzpatrick
Critique: The task is to remain awake in the blast of the stultifying drowse this movie envokes--our viewing had casualties to this tortoise paced effort. The development of the conflict between the staff members just goes on too long without ever exploding. Although this movie can be found on horror shelves, there is little in it to merit this classification. Profoundly dull. The idea is derivative of William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" only these folks were drunker than Faulkner and couldn't write.
Plot Summary: A night nurse, Prudence, is taken on to tend to the invalid Diva, breaking the Diva's decades long seclusion from the outside world. Clara, the Diva's life long companion, is suspicious of and resentful toward the newcomer. Prudence's boyfriend is comissioned to paint the Diva. He notices that many of the original paintings have been replaced by lithographs. Someone is selling off the originals. Is it Clara? What is being hidden from Prudence? Why is Clara afraid to go down to the cellar? And what ever happened to the Diva's oft mentioned sister? These mysteries are supposed to supply the tension in this slow moving yarn.
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