Search - House of 1000 Women on DVD

Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1944 DVD Release: 01/08/2008 Format: DVD - Black and White Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 1 mins Studio: Alpha Video Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Drama, War, War Drama, POW Drama

The "2000 Women" of the film's title are the female inmates in a WW II German concentration camp in France. Though many of the women don't get along, they are united in their hatred for their Nazi captors. The story takes a truly melodramatic turn when three English airmen parachute into the camp, offering a ray of hope for those inmates planning an escape. Some of the humor is "black" indeed, involving a card-playing corpse and other questionable sources of laughter, but this was the sort of material that wartime audiences wanted. Heading the cast of 2000 Women are Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson and Patricia Roc, fine British actresses all who overcome an abundance of script deficiencies. The film was the first production of Individual Pictures, formed by the producer-director-writer team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Phyllis Calvert - Freda Thompson
Flora Robson - Miss Manningford
Patricia Roc - Rosemary Brown
Renee Houston - Maud Wright
Reginald Purdell - Alec Harvey