Good Night, Nurse (1916)

Neal, while sitting in his room, notices an accident in the street and kindly goes to the man's rescue with his car and takes him to the hospital. The nurse assigned to the case, Billie, makes a great hit with Neal. That night at the club Neal cannot get the pretty nurse out of his mind. He pretends illness, and is rushed off to the hospital, but, much to his disappointment. Stella is assigned to him. He throws pillows at her and altogether gives the impression that he is violent. A new nurse is put on the case, but when Neal discovers that it is not Billie, he again raves. Harry and Stella try to soothe him and Harry promises to give him another nurse, but again Neal is disappointed, and the two start fighting. He decides that he will leave the place. As they have taken his clothes he wraps a sheet around him and starts out. A chase follows through the ward which disturbs the patients very much. Billie is attending a woman in a private room. Harry and the others finally capture Neal and tie him in bed, but he manages to get loose again. In the hall he encounters one of the attendants and the two grapple. Another chase follows through the ward, and back into the hall. Neal knocking down a couple of cripples and Harry. Neal finally manages to barricade himself within one of the rooms and escapes through the window, but his escape is soon noted and the attendants give chase. Neal hides in an apartment house, and from there runs to an alley. Billie, who has left her patient, is walking along the street when Neal spies her, and oblivious to everything, rushes up to her and commences to talk. The attendants soon come on and they take him back to the hospital, where Billie is installed as his nurse.

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