The Student Nurses
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1h 21m
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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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Wasp Woman
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Directed by Roger Corman | 61 mins | 1959
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The Endless Night
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Directed by Will Tremper | 82 mins | 1963
A dense fog has grounded all flights out of West Berlin’s Tempelhof airport in Tremper’s episodic naturalist melodrama, which tracks the chance encounters between the handful of passengers stranded overnight in the terminal’s central hall...
