Vigil in the Night (1940)

Directors

George Stevens

Cast

Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne, Anne Shirley, Julien Mitchell, Robert Coote

The story

In Great Britain, nurse Anne Lee takes the blame for a fatal error made by her sister Lucy—also a nurse, but at Anne's insistence—and is forced to leave the hospital where they both work. She moves to Hepperton, where she procures a job at another hospital, which is chronically underfunded and understaffed due to the tightfisted attitude of its chairman of the board, wealthy businessman Matthew Bowley. While in the gallery observing surgery on Bowley by Robert Prescott, a highly respected doctor at the hospital, she notices that Prescott left a swab inside the patient, and mentions it.

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