spoiler shock film involve the brutal and neanderthal nick and clark gable and the family chauffeur and his partner in crime the unscrupulous dr. milton ranger and ralf harolde and planing to do the unthinkable while starve two little girl densey and nanny and betty jane graham and marcia mea jones and to death in order to get their greedy hand on the girl trust fund money . get the two girl widow mom mrs. ritchey and charlotte merriam and good and drunk nick and dr. ranger also know a twitchy cut down the food intake for desney and nanny slowly have them die from malnutrition . that until the in house night nurse lora hart and barbara stanwyck and show up on the scene . try to get the two girl help and and away from dr. ranger and lora be threaten with bodily harm or worse from the brutish nick who and from judge his gangster like manner and kill before and and with little provocation and will kill again . spoiler alert lora herself end up on the receive end of a straight right and that almost knock her bottom teeth out and courtesy of nick when she dare to try to call the police to get them to rescue little desney and nanny . despertely lora finally give in and get her bootlegger boyfriend mortie and ben lyon and to do the job that nobody seem to want to do . put and end to nick reign of terror and on the richey household and by finally put him out of operation and in his place represent the city morgue . electrify performance by a very young and just out of her teen and barbara stanwyck a the heroic as well a abuse and by her bos dr. ranger and nurse lora hart . risk both her job as well a her health and in volunteer for a massive blood transfusion and lora go out of her way to save the little girl who have only day if not hour leave to live . it be when lora good friend and who get her the job a a nurse in the first place and the kindly but look the other way and in what dr. ranger be do and dr. arthur bell and charles winning and finally grow a pair of you know what and not only come to desney and nanny rescue and in defiance of the evil dr. ranger and that this horror or horror the wanton starving of the little girl finally come to and end . together with that motley crew of murderous sickos weirdo and drunk like mrs. ritchey and her always booze up boyfriend mack and walter mcgrail .