This movie is wonderful! Barbara as a tough talking nurse is incredible. I know they are finally going to release "Baby Face" on DVD so there must be plans to release this gem on DVD soon. My favorite scene is when Barbara meets Clark Gable:
Barbara: "Who are you?" Clark (almost growling) : " I'm Nick , the chauffeur!"
Night Nurses is not on DVD yet. Baby Face has been released on DVD yesterday. It is in a set called "Forbidden Hollywood Collection" along with Waterloo Bridge & Red Headed Woman. I would like to have Night Nurses & Baby Face myself. When I find out about NN I will post it here for ya. Hope this helps some.
Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of TCM Archives: Forbidden Hollywood Volume 2 on 4th March 2008. Following the success of last year's Volume 1, this new 3-disc collection will contain five pre-code sizzlers, with some of Hollywood's biggest stars. Disc One spotlights Norma Shearer in her Best Actress Oscar- winning role as The Divorcee and again in A Free Soul; with Lionel Barrymore and Clark Gable. Disc Two features Bette Davis, Joan Blondell and Ann Dvorak in Three on a Match paired with the Michael Curtiz-directed comedy Female starring Ruth Chatterton as a no- nonsense CEO. Disc Three features William Wellman's powerful drama Night Nurse, which stars Barbara Stanwyck with a very young Clark Gable, along with the new documentary feature Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood. The film provides fascinating insight into the American psyche of late 1920s and early 1930s, illustrating why, more than seventy years later, the so-called "Pre- Code" movies remain among the most vital and provocative films ever made.
Each of the features contained in the set have been digitally remastered from newly-restored film elements. The collection also contains bonus features on selected title such as commentaries and theatrical trailers. The three DVD set, containing the five vintage classics and the new documentary feature will be available as a collection only, selling for $49.92 SRP.
Night Nurse (1931)/ Documentary Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
William Wellman's (Public Enemy) Night Nurse is a sassy, unsentimental comedy about a private pediatric nurse named Lora Hart (Barbara Stanwyck) who, after applying as an apprentice in a family home, discovers there is a plot afoot to starve her two rich, fat, young charges to death. The culprit is the family's chauffeur, Nick (Clark Gable), a villain who plans to marry the kids' dissolute mother and make off with their trust fund. It then is up to Hart, her wisecracking nurse friend Maloney (Joan Blondell), and her bootlegger beau Mortie (Ben Lyon) to save them. Director Wellman keeps the jokes humming along with the peril.
This never-before seen documentary, Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood examines the unique collision of events that resulted in one of the most dynamic - and delicious periods in Hollywood history -- a fascinating mix of scandal, big business and social history.
DVD Special Features: Night Nurse commentary by Jeffrey Vance and Tony Maietta Night Nurse theatrical trailer