Vigil in the Night

There is a nurse, and she is good at her work. Her sister is a nurse as well. Through carelessness the sister makes a serious mistake. The nurse takes the mistake on herself and covers for her sister. The price of that is her own professional future. Her career is ruined by it. The account is set inside a hospital and put together as a medical drama. An epidemic, night shifts and the conditions of a charity hospital are in the film. The tension between the bond of sisters and responsibility is at the centre. Carole Lombard and Brian Aherne take the leads, with Anne Shirley also in the cast, in George Stevens’s American film of 1940.