Female (1933)Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer. Director:Michael Curtiz |
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Female (1933)Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer. Director:Michael Curtiz |
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George Brent | ... |
Jim Thorne
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Lois Wilson | ... |
Harriet
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Cooper
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Ruth Donnelly | ... |
Miss Frothingham
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Ferdinand Gottschalk | ... |
Pettigrew
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Phillip Reed | ... |
Freddie Claybourne
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Gavin Gordon | ... |
Briggs
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Kenneth Thomson | ... |
Red
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Huey White | ... |
Puggy
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| Douglass Dumbrille | ... |
George Mumford
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Spencer Charters | ... |
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Alison is owner and successful manager of an automobile factory. She also has a good relation to her employees - especially the male ones, which she is known to invite to her bed for some time and then dump quickly. Only the inventor Jim Thorne refuses her offers - will she fire or marry him? Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
I think that this was one of the most incredible and yet most under-rated films for it's time. For even though they ended with the woman succumbing to the whim of man and the traditional "woman's role", it still spoke miles for the woman. She was strong, brave, and did everything that a man could do and wasn't ashamed and had they only kept her going she could have been great. In fact, she could have won. But did she really lose? I don't think so, because maybe it showed something more about the female mystique, something that people missed because they thought that it only showed how a woman in power breaks down under pressure. What if they were really trying to show something deeper...I don't know now I am getting lost...too many things going through my mind to explain. Nonetheless, I do know that I was in awe after watching this film and it has had a lasting impression on me ever since.