If I ever were to marry, I'd want the person to be no nonsense, loyal, funny and completely loving, just like Claire Trevor's navy nurse here. She's unafraid of sending lazy soldier Warren Hymer back to his ship, knowing that his supposed broken bones are fake, obviously disguised from being double jointed, and she's not receptive to every advance made by the doctors she assists in surgery. For handsome widowed doctor Ralph Bellamy who has a young doctor suffering with infantile paralysis, she's the perfect companion, but for Trevor, the memory of his first wife still consumes him. She's the product of a broken marriage, and has devoted herself strictly to her career. But will a sudden rash decision destroy both of them, even if it involves love for both of them and his daughter?
Surprisingly intelligent and extremely believable, it combines several different themes as it deals with a different type of ghost story. There's humor with the type of pranks the doctors at the navy hospital play on each other, as well as the surrogate love that Trevor has with head doctor George Irving and his vivacious wife (Jane Darwell), while young Anne Howard is adorable as the ailing young girl who has a better grasp of life than either Trevor or Bellamy. These are all characters that immediately grab and keep your interest, and Trevor is particularly excellent. She has a drunk scene that is as heartbreaking as the one that won her an Oscar for "Key Largo". Ben Lyon is also very good as an admirer of Trevor's who advises her to fight for her marriage. Only a fatal attraction subplot involving Kathleen Buried takes this down an inappropriate melodramatic road it didn't need to travel.
Surprisingly intelligent and extremely believable, it combines several different themes as it deals with a different type of ghost story. There's humor with the type of pranks the doctors at the navy hospital play on each other, as well as the surrogate love that Trevor has with head doctor George Irving and his vivacious wife (Jane Darwell), while young Anne Howard is adorable as the ailing young girl who has a better grasp of life than either Trevor or Bellamy. These are all characters that immediately grab and keep your interest, and Trevor is particularly excellent. She has a drunk scene that is as heartbreaking as the one that won her an Oscar for "Key Largo". Ben Lyon is also very good as an admirer of Trevor's who advises her to fight for her marriage. Only a fatal attraction subplot involving Kathleen Buried takes this down an inappropriate melodramatic road it didn't need to travel.