Once to Every Woman

The film takes place inside a hospital. The story covers a stretch of twelve hours. Mary Fanshawe is the head nurse. She is exacting and orderly in her work. Jim Barclay is a young doctor newly arrived at the hospital. The two of them clash from the first day. Meanwhile other calculations are running along the corridors. The chief surgeon will not accept retirement. Another doctor wants to take his place. Who gets into the operating theatre is a matter of dispute. Emergencies keep breaking in. The condition of the patients will not wait for this quarrel. Mary has a matter of the heart as well. The man she is interested in turns out to be unreliable. Before the day is over, the balance at the hospital has shifted. The film was adapted from a short story. Ralph Bellamy and Fay Wray appear in the sixty four minute film, an American production Lambert Hillyer finished in 1934.