Prison Nurse

A Maelstrom of Human Emotions!

APPROPIATE

1938 / 67min.

Rating5.1

Genres

Drama

Synopsis

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.

Directors

Actors

Selmer Jackson

Minerva Urecal

Marian Marsh

Addison Richards

Henry Wilcoxon

Frank Reicher

John Arledge

Norman Willis

Ben Welden

Fred Kohler Jr.

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