Candy Stripe Nurses (1974)

Having watched Fly Me (1973) recently, I thought that I'd catch up with Candy Stripe Nurses (1974), another of New World's early seventies sex movies.  Sexy High School girls, bare boobs, bonking and plenty of innuendo sums up the film.  It pretty much follows the same format as Fly Me, featuring three main female characters and following each as they follow their individual sub-plots.  Except that rather than air stewardesses, this time around they are volunteer auxiliary nurses, (known as 'Candy Stripers' thanks to their striped uniforms).  One is a Latino bad girl who gets involved in trying to prove that her patient is actually innocent of the robbery he has been arrested for, while another gets a thrill from having sex with medical students in linen cupboards and patients in their hospital beds, who becomes involved in trying to revive the libido of a famous British rock star.  The third is a high achieving student with ambitions to be a doctor who investigates a doping ring secretly giving the High School basketball team performance enhancing drugs.

Overall, the tone is somewhat lighter than Fly Me, with neither the drug story nor the crime sub plot getting anywhere as dark as the white slavery/drug trafficking story line in the earlier film.  On the other hand, it lacks any equivalent to the pretty surreal King Fu fighting scenes in Fly Me.  Moreover, unlike Fly Me, Candy Stripe Nurses never manages to tie its three separate plot threads together for a finale, with each reaching its own individual climax at the film's conclusion.  Candy Stripe Nurses, with its animated title sequence, innuendo filled theme song and general bawdiness, is even more like a seventies British sex comedy than Fly Me.  Indeed, it is very reminiscent of the later British sex comedy What's Up Nurse! (1977), both in tone and content, or perhaps even some of the medically-themed Carry On movies.  Ultimately, like Fly Me, Candy Stripe Nurses is basically exploitation fluff, completely unsubstantial, but enjoyable enough while it is on.