A quintessential pre-code, the film centers around Laura Hart (Stanwyck) as she struggles to keep her ideals while getting through nursing school. After she graduates, she is assigned to be a night nurse to two little girls suffering from malnutrition and anemia. Gable does not appear until halfway through the film and only appears for a few minutes, as one-dimensional character Nick, the evil brute of a chauffeur. Laura becomes suspicious of the doctor treating the children and of Nick. Nick throws her around, bullies her and the children say they are scared of him. Laura soon comes to the realization that Nick and the doctor are in it together--to starve the children to death and keep their mother a drunk so they can get their hands on the family's fortune.

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Quote-able Gable

"Never mind that. Get busy with her; give her a stomach wash!" first line

"I'll break your neck!"

"Aw, shut up!"

"Hey, just what's the idea behind that crack?"

"You're speaking right out, ain't you?"

"I'd run along if I was you." last line

Behind the Scenes

Wellman's only direction to Gable for the character was, "He's a loathsome brute."

In one of the scenes where Gable beats Stanwyck, he got a bit carried away and accidently bruised her face. She was crying hysterically but he had thought she was acting.

Gable filmed scenes for Night Nurse, The Finger Points and The Easiest Way simultaneously.