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By the humble standard of Educational Films, Nifty Nurses comes as a nice surprise. True, there are one or two slow stretches. Billy Gilbert plays an incompetent doctor in this one, but I don't find him half as funny as say, Jackie Gleason, who isn't in this movie, but he's a guy who knows when to stop expostulating and get on with the show. On the other hand, Billy Gilbert doesn't stop. He loves to milk even the mildest of word substitutions bone dry. Another offender in the over-emphasis department is Nelson McDowell. He's a doctor in this Nifty Nurses glue too, but fortunately he disappears at any early stage. And for a while there, it looks as if we are going to be stuck with Johnny "Never Go" Downs and Sally "Not So" Sweet, but fortunately, the musical numbers in this 20-minutes short are put across with a real bang and are niftily directed by Leigh Jason who isn't afraid to smartly glide his camera along with his rousing, marching chorus of really nifty singing nurses as they smartly parade through a rousing succession of hospital corridors. It's a pity Jason didn't apply the same breathless pacing to the dialogue scenes as well! Available on DVD from Grapevine Video on the Man Who Knew Too Much disc.