Flight Nurse (film)

Flight Nurse
Directed by	Allan Dwan
Written by	Alan Le May
Starring	Joan Leslie Forrest Tucker
Music by	Victor Young
Cinematography	Reggie Lanning
Edited by	Fred Allen
Production company	Republic Pictures
Distributed by	Republic Pictures
Release dates	November 4, 1953 (1953-11-04) (Washington, D.C.) November 15, 1953 (1953-11-15) (United States)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Flight Nurse is a 1953 American drama war film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Joan Leslie and Forrest Tucker. The movie is largely based on the life of Lillian Kinkella Keil, one of the most decorated women in American military history.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Two Air Force soldiers, Captain Mike Barnes (Arthur Franz) and Captain Bill Eaton (Forrest Tucker), fall in love with flight nurse Lt. Polly Davis (Joan Leslie) during the Korean War.^[1]

Cast

Joan Leslie as Lt. Polly Davis
Forrest Tucker as Capt. Bill Eaton
Arthur Franz as Capt. Mike Barnes
Jeff Donnell as Lt. Ann Phillips
Ben Cooper as Pfc. Marvin Judd
James Holden as Sgt. Frank Swan
Kristine Miller as Lt. Kit Ramsey
Maria Palmer as Captain Martha Ackerman
Dick Simmons as Lt. Tommy Metcalfe (as Richard Simmons)
James Brown as Flight engineer
Hal Baylor as Sgt. Jimmy Case

References

1 2 "Flight Nurse". NY Times. Retrieved 2015-08-28.
↑ "Lillian Kinkella Keil, 88; 'an Airborne Florence Nightingale'". LA Times, July 10, 2005. Retrieved August 28, 2015.

External links

Flight Nurse at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Allan Dwan

The Greater Love (1913)
Her Big Story (1913)
The Restless Spirit (1913)
Back to Life (1913)
Red Margaret, Moonshiner (1913)
Bloodhounds of the North (1913)
The Lie (1914)
The Honor of the Mounted (1914)
Remember Mary Magdalen (1914)
Discord and Harmony (1914)
The Menace to Carlotta (1914)
The Embezzler (1914)
The Lamb, the Woman, the Wolf (1914)
The End of the Feud (1914)
The Tragedy of Whispering Creek (1914)
The Unlawful Trade (1914)
The Forbidden Room (1914)
The Hopes of Blind Alley (1914)
Richelieu (1914)
The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch (1914)
Wildflower (1914)
The County Chairman (1914)
The Straight Road (1914)
The Conspiracy (1914)
The Dancing Girl (1915)
A Small Town Girl (1915)
David Harum (1915)
The Love Route (1915)
The Commanding Officer (1915)
May Blossom (1915)
The Pretty Sister of Jose (1915)
A Girl of Yesterday (1915)
The Habit of Happiness (1916)
The Good Bad Man (1916)
An Innocent Magdalene (1916)
Fifty-Fifty (1916)
Accusing Evidence (1916)
Fighting Odds (1917)
A Modern Musketeer (1917)
Headin' South (1918)
Mr. Fix-It (1918)
Bound in Morocco (1918)
He Comes Up Smiling (1918)
Cheating Cheaters (1919)
Soldiers of Fortune (1919)
The Scoffer (1920)
A Splendid Hazard (1920)
A Perfect Crime (1921)
The Hidden Woman (1922)
Robin Hood (1922)
Lawful Larceny (1923)
Zaza (1923)
Big Brother (1923)
A Society Scandal (1924)
Manhandled (1924)
Her Love Story (1924)
Wages of Virtue (1924)
Argentine Love (1924)
The Coast of Folly (1925)
Night Life of New York (1925)
Stage Struck (1925)
Sea Horses (1926)
Padlocked (1926)
Tin Gods (1926)
Summer Bachelors (1926)
The Music Master (1927)
The Joy Girl (1927)
East Side, West Side (1927)
French Dressing (1927)
The Big Noise (1928)
The Iron Mask (1929)
Tide of Empire (1929)
The Far Call (1929)
Frozen Justice (1929)
South Sea Rose (1929)
What a Widow! (1930)
Man to Man (1930)
Chances (1931)
Wicked (1931)
While Paris Sleeps (1932)
Her First Affaire (1932)
Counsel's Opinion (1933)
Black Sheep (1935)
Navy Wife (1935)
Song and Dance Man (1936)
Human Cargo (1936)
High Tension (1936)
15 Maiden Lane (1936)
Woman-Wise (1937)
That I May Live (1937)
One Mile from Heaven (1937)
Heidi (1937)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
Suez (1938)
Josette (1938)
The Three Musketeers (1939)
The Gorilla (1939)
Frontier Marshal (1939)
Sailor's Lady (1940)
Young People (1940)
Trail of the Vigilantes (1940)
Look Who's Laughing (1941)
Rise and Shine (1941)
Friendly Enemies (1942)
Here We Go Again (1942)
Around the World (1943}
Abroad with Two Yanks (1944)
Up in Mabel's Room (1944)
Brewster's Millions (1945)
Getting Gertie's Garter (1945)
Rendezvous with Annie (1946)
Calendar Girl (1947)
Northwest Outpost (1947)
Driftwood (1947)
The Inside Story (1948)
Angel in Exile (1948)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Surrender (1950)
Belle Le Grand (1951)
The Wild Blue Yonder (1951)
I Dream of Jeanie (1952)
Montana Belle (1952)
Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)
Sweethearts on Parade (1953)
Flight Nurse (1953)
Silver Lode (1954)
Passion (1954)
Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)
Escape to Burma (1955)
Pearl of the South Pacific (1955)
Tennessee's Partner (1955)
Slightly Scarlet (1956)
Hold Back the Night (1956)
The River's Edge (1957)
The Restless Breed (1957)
Enchanted Island (1958)

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