In China in 1935, seven dedicated missionary women try to protect themselves from the advances of a barbaric Mongolian warlord and his cut-throat gang of warriors.
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Anne Bancroft | ... | Dr. D.R. Cartwright | |
| Sue Lyon | ... | Emma Clark | |
| Margaret Leighton | ... | Agatha Andrews | |
| Flora Robson | ... | Miss Binns | |
| Mildred Dunnock | ... | Jane Argent | |
| Betty Field | ... | Florrie Pether | |
| Anna Lee | ... | Mrs. Russell | |
| Eddie Albert | ... | Charles Pether | |
| Mike Mazurki | ... | Tunga Khan | |
| Woody Strode | ... | Lean Warrior | |
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Jane Chang | ... | Miss Ling |
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Hans William Lee | ... | Kim |
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H.W. Gim | ... | Coolie |
| Irene Tsu | ... | Chinese Girl | |
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In a mission in China in 1935, Agatha Andrews is a rigid missionary beset by Mongolian bandits led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan. With her are her assistant Jane Argent, staff members Emma Clark, Miss Russell and Miss Binns, head of the British mission, Charles Pather, a teacher at the mission and his pregnant wife Florrie. When Dr. D.R. Cartwright arrives, she agrees to sacrifice herself to the Tunga Khan in exchange for his letting the ladies go free. Written by alfiehitchie
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Country:
USARelease Date:
24 March 1966 (West Germany) See more »Also Known As:
Chinese Finale See more »Filming Locations:
Backlot, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USAEdit
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$2,300,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Music by Lewis H. Redner and lyrics by Phillips Brooks
Sung by the women
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There are actually eight women: Doctor Cartwright, Agatha Andrews, Jane Argent, Emma Clark, Florrie Pether, Miss Binns, Mrs. Russell, and Miss Ling. See more »Goofs
The hairstyle of Dr. Cartwright is a 1960s fashion that is out of place in 1935. See more »Soundtracks
O Little Town of Bethlehem(uncredited)
Music by Lewis H. Redner and lyrics by Phillips Brooks
Sung by the women
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"Seven Women" is the last feature film of John Ford, arguably the greatest director the United States has yet produced. After a half century of film making, Ford ended his fabled career with a wide screen feature about women in peril at a Chinese mission. Infirm and alcoholic, he filmed it on an MGM sound stage; MGM then cut it and tossed it away on the bottom half of a double bill.
Today, the film is little known and seldom seen. It is far from Ford's best work, yet there is power and believability in many of the lead performances, and power in the arc of the story. Anne Bancroft shines as a feisty New York doctor who ultimately sacrifices herself to save the other missionaries -- many whom she doesn't agree with -- from brutal deaths at the hands of Chinese bandits. Her work here is more forceful and better realized than her role of Mrs. Robinson, done two years later.
The best gift MGM/Sony could give lovers of serious cinema is a clean print of this forgotten film. Its sets are often glaringly artificial, and some of the secondary players are over the top (an old weakness of Ford's) as well as miscast, but "7W" is a far better film than Hollywood legend has told us.