Two Thousand Women
Date: 1944
Director: Frank Launder
Production Company: Gainsborough Pictures
Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc, Renée Houston
Location(s): London (Studio)
Region(s): London T-Z
Storyline:
British women in a French Internment camp conceal Allied airmen from enemy soldiers and try to help them escape.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
An edited version of the film was released in the US as ‘One Thousand Women’
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In occupied France, a truck waits as an Enemy Soldier hammers on the door of a large house.
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As they are driven away to an internment camp, Muriel Manningford and her companion Miss Clare Meredith look back from the truck towards Celeste and Dubois (Wallace Bosco).
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Numerous check points are passed through en route to the hotel at Marneville being used to hold women detainees.
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This sequence, showing the women’s journey, appears in the North American version of the film.
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The grand hotel in the spa town of fictional Marneville where the women arrive to continue their story at the studio.
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At the end of the film, Pilot Officer Jimmy Moore, Sergeant Alec Harvey and Dave Kennedy make their escape.