Rent Two Thousand Women (1944)
3.4 of 5 from 55 ratings
1h 33min
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- Synopsis:
Set in Marville, a women's internment camp in Nazi-occupied France, 'Two Thousand Women' is the exciting tale of a group of British women from varied backgrounds brought together under extraordinary circumstances. Forced to live together, the women have to put aside their social differences and band together to protect not just themselves, but three survivors from a British bomber shot down over France who bail out and land right in the middle of the camp's grounds. The women POWs swiftly hide the British airmen, but discovery is only ever seconds away and the tension mounting between them is palpable - especially when they discover that a Nazi spy lurks amongst them. When a lustful guard is killed by one of the airmen, a breakout seems the only option... - Actors:
- Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc, Renee Houston, Reginald Purdell, Anne Crawford, Jean Kent, James McKechnie, Robert Arden, Carl Jaffe, Muriel Aked, Kathleen Boutall, Hilda Campbell-Russell, Christiana Forbes, Thora Hird, Dulcie Gray, Joan Ingram, Betty Jardine, Christiane De Maurin, Guy Le Feuvre
- Directors:
- Frank Launder
- Producers:
- Edward Black
- Voiced By:
- John Snagge
- Writers:
- Michael Pertwee, Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
- Studio:
- DD Home Entertainment
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Comedy, Drama
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Films About Nuns, Drama Films & TV, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 British Actresses of the 1940s, Top 10 British War Films (1939-45), Top Films, WWII Films: Beaches, Oceans and Camps
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Noises Awf - Two Thousand Women review by CH
Two women share a bath while others loll upon the floor beside it as their gossip and barbed asides echo around the walls of a high-ceilinged French château. The beverage within their grasp, however, is nothing stronger than tea. This is the early-Forties, and they are holed up in a building requisitioned by the Germans to intern Brtitsh women who had not made it out of the country before the Occupation.
There are moments, with the banter between this mixed bunch, when Twenty Thousand Women (1944) could almost be the stuff of a boarding-school romp or that rooming house of Stage Door. A febrile atmosphere, and what a cast for a film written and directed by Frank Lauder and Sidney Gilliatt.
Here are Phyllis Calvert, Patricia Roc, Flora Robson, an especially sultry Jean Kent, a glimpse of Thora Hird (and her own infant daughter). Their voices are crystal clear, they are well outfitted, and – as with the confines of these writers' The Lady Vanishes – comedy blends well into a thriller which turns around some airmen baling out only to find their parachutes have directed them into these grounds by night.
It would be easy to deride the plot but, as it picks up speed but has to resist doing so but relish such things as the most unusual card game ever filmed – and a stage show, which could have been a West End hit and almost brings to mind The Producers.
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