Girl in the News (1940)

Directors

Carol Reed

Cast

Barry K. Barnes, Basil Radford, Emlyn Williams, Felix Aylmer, Kathleen Harrison, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Hordern, Roger Livesey

The story

Nurse Anne Graham is leaving the service of her bedridden employer Gertrude Blaker, who confesses that she set Anne up by planting a silver ring in her trunk, intending to report the theft. Her malice is aggravated by chronic insomnia; the nurse won't give her sleeping pills on demand. Her contriteness convinces Anne to stay, and she leaves her purse on a bureau in Gertrude's bedroom.

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