Plot
Nurse Spring takes care of grumpy Vietnam veteran Domino who has a plate in his head and is in need of surgery from Dr. McClintock. Nurse Lynn fights against water pollution, and gets involved with Dewey.Cast
* Katherine Cannon as Spring * Joyce Williams as Lola * Pegi Boucher as Lynn * Joseph Kaufmann as Dr. Selden * Dennis Redfield as Domino *Production
George Armitage had made 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: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.Peter Bogdanovich Peter Bogdanovich (July 30, 1939 – January 6, 2022) was an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian. One of the " New Hollywood" directors, Bogdanovich started as a film journalist until he was hired to work on ...and Francis ord Coppolahad 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 some TV guys that I'd worked with, and some young commercial crew. This fellow calledFouad Said Fouad Said (born 1933) is an Egyptian producer, cinematographer and filmmaker. Early life and education Said graduated from USC School of Cinematic Arts. He received his master's degree from University of Southern California in 1973. He comp ...had invented this thing called ''Cinemobile'' ... and I used it to film on location. I did everything on location ... I shot the whole movie in the South Bay, Manhattan Beach—it's exactly the same place and time period thatPaul Thomas Anderson Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970), also known by his initials PTA, is an American filmmaker. He made his feature-film debut with '' Hard Eight'' (1996). He found critical and commercial success with ''Boogie Nights'' (1997) and received ...used in ''Inherent Vice ''Inherent Vice'' is a novel by American author Thomas Pynchon, originally published in August 2009. A darkly comic detective novel set in 1970s California, the plot follows sleuth Larry "Doc" Sportello whose ex-girlfriend asks him to investiga ...''.
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.Armitage heard about the band Sky, went to see them perform at a high school, and cast them in the film. Armitage says Corman left him alone for most of the film.
He wanted us to do whatever we felt, what we were thinking of poetically, socially, culturally at the time. So I tried to look at it from a woman's point-of-view, adding my own feelings about what was going on. Corman and I got along very well. I didn't like the way Hollywood treated him—he was kind of an underdog and I loved the fact that he would just say, "Here, go make the movie." He never came to the set, he totally allowed us to do what we were doing ... And ''Private Duty Nurses'' was done in 15 days.
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* {{George Armitage 1970s exploitation films 1971 films American exploitation films 1970s English-language films New World Pictures films Films about nurses Medical-themed films American sequel films 1971 directorial debut films Films directed by George Armitage 1970s American films