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Two Thousand Women is a British film of genre Drama directed by Frank Launder released in USA on 6 november 1944 with Phyllis Calvert
Two Thousand Women (1944)
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Add to a movie listTwo Thousand Women (1944) is a British comedy-drama war film about a camp of interned British women in Occupied France. Three RAF aircrewmen whose bomber had been shot down enter the camp and are hidden by the women from the Germans.
The film was released in the USA in 1951 in a severely cut-down version under the title of House of 1,000 Women. Per the British Film Institute database, this is the second in an "unofficial trilogy" by Launder and Gilliat of Millions Like Us (1943), Two Thousand Women, and Waterloo Road (1945).
Synopsis
An English novice nun (Patricia Roc) is arrested by the French as a fifth columnist during the 1940 Battle of France. While she is imprisoned, the Germans occupy France and she is sent (without her habit) to an internment camp in a grand hotel at a spa. She journeys to the camp with Freda (a journalist played by Phyllis Calvert), Bridie (a stripper played by Jean Kent), Muriel (Flora Robson) and her female companion Miss Meredith (Muriel Aked). At the camp they meet Maud (Renee Houston) and Mrs Burtshaw (Thora Hird).Actors
Phyllis Calvert
(Freda Thompson)
Flora Robson
(Miss Manningford)
Patricia Roc
(Rosemary Brown)
Reginald Purdell
(Alec Harvey)
Anne Crawford
(Margaret Long)
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