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Bookmark this pageTwo Thousand Women (1944)
Director: Frank Launder
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From Time Out Film Guide
Typically lively wartime offering from Launder and Gilliat, made under the Gainsborough banner and set in a women's prison in Nazi-occupied France. The prisoners attempts to conceal three daring RAF chaps from the authorities. On the one hand, it stands as a progenitor of Launder and Gilliat's later, equally zestful St Trinian's movies, coming complete with lashings of knockabout humour and a chaotic fight which would have done the Fifth Form proud. On the other, however, in its own Tenko-like way, it's also surprisingly touching.Author: GM
Cast & crew
Director: Frank Launder
Producer: Edward Black
Cast: Phyllis Calvert, Patricia Roc, Jean Kent, Flora Robson, Reginald Purdell, Renee Houston, Thora Hird, Dulcie Gray, Carl Jaffe full cast
Duration: 97 mins
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