Prison Nurse | |
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Directed by | James Cruze |
Screenplay by | Earl Felton Sidney Salkow |
Story by | Adele Buffington |
Based on | Prison Nurse by Louis Berg |
Produced by | Herman Schlom |
Starring | Henry Wilcoxon Marian Marsh Bernadene Hayes Ben Welden Ray Mayer John Arledge |
Cinematography | Ernest Miller |
Edited by | William Morgan |
Music by | Alberto Colombo |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Republic Pictures |
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Running time | 67 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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