The Student Nurses
Classic Cinema
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1h 21m
Leaving April 1
Directed by Stephanie Rothman | 82 mins | 1970
Rothman’s debut feature—and first production under contract with Roger Corman’s New World Pictures— co-produced and co-written with her husband Charles Swartz. Working under the particular constraints of the Exploitation genre, Rothman deviously integrates issues of immigration, poverty, female equality and reproductive rights into the narrative, making this a unique work in the catalogue of American feminist film.
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