{Personal note: TYSM to Tom Spender for his kind words regarding my reviews. You're the best, Tom!}Wow, remember 1981's "Halloween 2" when Michael Myers infiltrated the hospital in Haddonfield and did so many evil things to all the pretty nurses? Well, this 1956 film is the forerunner to that slasher movie. Late at night, the creepy killer prowls the hospital and the very pretty nurse caring for her patients will be put in mortal danger from violation and murder. Remember nurses used to be pretty, like stewardesses? Not anymore, thus this old film brings us back to happier times when sultry nurses in white gave patients great morale boosts. Our film today is "Eyewitness," directed by Muriel Box.
A dark night in London, pretty young Lucy (Muriel Pavlow) returns home to her ineffective husband, Jay (Michael Craig). A stupid argument ensues and Lucy runs out of the house. She shouldn't have. At the theater she witnesses two inept idiots rob the safe and murder the theater manager. Now Wade (Donald Sinden) and Barney (Nigel Stock) pursue this lovely witness. In fear, Lucy runs into the street and is hit by a bus. Now the unconscious babe witness is brought to the hospital. Wade and Barney follow the ambulance as they need Lucy dead. At the hospital, the unconscious Lucy is cared for by sultry Nurse Penny (Belinda Lee). Yes, Nurse Penny is as sultry as Pamela Susan Shoop. Poor Penny, she does not know the danger Lucy is in, or the danger she herself will be in.
Wade is the psycho of the pair and he infiltrates the hospital with murder in mind. Sadly for him, his initial attempts are thwarted by annoying patients and the pretty Penny. Wade gets bolder and now Penny welcomes her boyfriend (David Knight) into the nurse's quarters where they make out and swap a lot of spit. Penny makes out nicely, and still doesn't realize the danger she is in as Wade figures that to get to Lucy, he first needs to get Nurse Penny out of the way. The dark night, and the deserted halls of the cavernous London hospital give Wade plenty of cover and prove perilous for our angel in white.
Will Wade succeed in murdering Penny and Lucy? Will any man, either Lucy's husband or Penny's boyfriend, be at all useful in protecting the beauties? Will Penny, herself, go to battle against the psycho killer, or will some man have to intervene on her behalf...typical! "Eyewitness" occurs in the span of a few hours on a dark London night. Though Lucy is unconscious through most of the film, Nurse Penny is very active, amorous, and caring...what a gal! See "Eyewitness" and harp back to yesteryear when nurses were babes in white and not sneering hags in green scrubs.
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