Night Call Nurses

Night Call Nurses (1972)

It's always harder at night.

The sweet and perky Barbara, the sunny Janis, and the responsible Sandra are a trio of young and attractive nurses who work in the psych ward at a hospital. The threesome really have their hands full dealing with nutty patients, creepy stalkers, and black revolutionaries

Date of release
1972-06-01
TMDB
4.4 / 10 (17)
Runtime
1h 14m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Jonathan Kaplan
Collection
The Nurses Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Night Call Nurses is a 1972 American sex comedy film directed by Jonathan Kaplan. It is the third in Roger Corman's "nurses" cycle of films, starting with The Student Nurses (1970).

Production

Corman offered the film to Kaplan on the recommendation of Martin Scorsese, who had recently made Boxcar Bertha for Corman and had taught Kaplan at New York University. Kaplan's student film Stanley had just won a prize at the National Student Film Festival and he was working as an editor in New York.

Corman allowed Kaplan to rewrite the script, and to cast and edit the film. Kaplan says the only lead member of the cast selected when he came on board was then-model Alana Hamilton. Kaplan was told he "had to find a role for Dick Miller, show a Bulova watch, and use a Jensen automobile in the film." Kaplan had never seen a nurses film so Corman told him the formula.

The director says Corman "explained that there would be three nurses: a blonde, a brunette, and a nurse of colour; that the nurse of color would be involved in a political subplot, the brunette would be involved in the kinky subplot, and the blonde would be the comedy subplot Kaplan remembered "the conversation ending like this: ‘The film is called Night Call Nurses. At present we don’t have “night call nurses” in the dialogue.

Kaplan brought out Jon Davison and Danny Opatoshu from New York to help him work on the script; both men paid their own way to Los Angeles and worked for nothing. "That was the best offer I'd ever had," said Davison later, adding that after the rewrite, "It was still a terrible script." (Davison went to work for Corman full time after Night Call Nurses and Opatoshu wrote several more scripts for him.) The film was shot in 15 days (other accounts…

Julie Corman had only produced one previous film Boxcar Bertha and said "I was on edge for the entire shoot of Night Call Nurses... I realized how many things could ruin the day shooting, like an actor not showing up, or an inappropriate prop. Thankfully, at the end of the day, when Roger asked, “Did you get the day’s work?”, we did."

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