Private Duty Nurses

Private Duty Nurses (1971)

It's what they do off duty that's really private!

A trio of beautiful private-duty nurses that practice more than the medical arts must confront underground drug traffickers, racism and murder in their local hospital.

Date of release
1971-09-01
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Drama
Director
George Armitage
Collection
The Nurses Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Private Duty Nurses is a 1971 American film written and directed by George Armitage. It is a sequel to The Student Nurses (1970) for New World Pictures. Roger Corman says they got the idea for the title after being sent a letter of complaint about the first film from the Private Duty Nurses Association.

Production

Stephanie Rothman who had made The Student Nurses was approached to make the sequel but turned it down. George Armitage had worked on a few films for Roger Corman, acting in Von Richtofen and Brown and writing and acting in Gas-s-s-s. He wanted to direct. Armitage:

Peter Bogdanovich and Francis [Ford Coppola] had left working with Roger, so there was an opening there for directors, I asked him if I could direct, and he said sure. He said: "Would you like to do a nurse movie or a stewardess move?" I said I'd like to do a stewardess movie, and he said: "Okay, well then you can do the nurse movie." Okay! Anyways, I got into it, and I wrote the script, and I got Everett Chambers, from Peyton Place, a crew of so…

Armitage was familiar with the Manhattan Beach area having surfed there when he was younger.

Armitage said the film had to feature sex but he put in a let-down sex scene at the beginning.

I was talking to the girls and they said: "Hey, why don't you do a guy who's just a lousy lay. Sometimes you run into that." And I thought that'd be perfect for the South Bay, because it was a pretty crazy culture going on down there at the time, so that's what we did.

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