Candy Stripe Nurses is a 1974 film starring Candice Rialson. It was the last in the popular "nurses cycle" of films for New World Pictures that started with The Student Nurses (1970).

Plot

Three high school girls work as volunteer candy stripe nurses at Oakwood Hospital. Free-loving Sandy (Candice Rialson) meets a famous rock star, Owen Boles (Kendrew Lascelles), and tries to cure him of his sexual problems. Uptight Dianne (Robin Mattson), who wants to be a doctor, has an affair with Cliff (Rod Haase), a star college basketball player who is being given speed by one of the hospital's doctors, and tries to expose the malpractice. Juvenile delinquent Marisa (Maria Rojo) has an affair with Carlos (Roger Cruz), who is falsely accused of taking part in a gas station hold up, and tries to prove his innocence.
Cast

    Candice Rialson as Sandy
    Robin Mattson as Dianne
    María Rojo as Marisa
    Roger Cruz as Carlos
    Rod Haase as Cliff Gallagher
    Richard Gates as Wally
    Don Keefer as Dr. Wilson
    Kendrew Lascelles as Owen Boles

Production

Director Allan Holleb had recently graduated from UCLA. Julie Corman gave him the job on this film after being impressed by a short film he had made. Barbara Peeters was second unit director.[2]

The movie downplayed the political element that featured in earlier nurses films in favour of humour, although it was still there.