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Director and writer Don Edmonds (of course, you know him from Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS) made this shot in a week and a day film that may have been distributed by New World but has nothing to do with their nurse films. Actually, Corman released it through Filmgroup.

This stars Donna Young (The Naughty Stewardesses), Marilyn Joi (Cleopatra Schwartz!) and Lauren Simon as the nurses, but unlike those Corman nurses films, these three girls have barely any social issues to solve and instead have to avoid Buck Flower as a horrifying sex offender, heal boxer John Daniels and handle Albert Cole's mobster.

This movie will make you yearn for the subtlety of The Young Nurses. It's violently not good, but I guess it had the kind of title and frequent nudity that it took to get on screens in 1974.

I remembered seeing a VHS copy of this when I was 16 at the local video store & it wouldn't have been suitable for viewing while I'd been living with my grandmother, so I chose something more appropriate. In any event, I was delighted to see this had been released to DVD & buy a copy.

I found Tender Loving Care a good B cult film. I couldn't wait for the DVD to get here as I was anxious to see this, finally. Details of the cast is very obscure. The actress who played Tracy hadn't been listed in the credits (unless she was listed under "nurse"?) & I'm assuming Tony Victor was the hunky doctor who portrayed Tracy's sexy boyfriend (the credits didn't specifically list which actor portrayed which character). Likely, John R. Daniels had been Dr. Traynor in the film. All-in-all, rather than to be too harsh in judging the film, go in knowing it isn't a masterpiece, but a fun way to spend an hour and twelve minutes. (The length of the DVD is correct & coincides with IMDb's movie length for this film, so contrary to the other reviewer's supposition, the film is shown in its entirety & there's been nothing cut!) The quality of the DVD wasn't by any means excellent, but it wasn't terrible either, I'd give it a solid 8. The movie alone gets 5 stars. The ending had a twist that kept me a little puzzled regarding Doc Traynor, but otherwise, if you love softcore cult films of the 1970s, give this one a try.