Women in War

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Movie
Original title Women in War
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1940
length 71 minutes
Rod
Director John H. Auer
script F. Hugh Herbert
Doris Anderson
production Sol C. Siegel
of Republic Pictures Corp.
music Cy fire
camera Jack Marta
cut Edward Mann
occupation

Women in War is an American feature film directed by John H. Auer . It tells the story of a young woman ( Wendy Barrie ) who serves as a nurse during the war and in the end not only finds her mother ( Elsie Janis ), but also her great love ( Patric Knowles ).

action

The young, easy-going Pamela Starr celebrated the victory of the Royal Navy over the German squadron in December 1914 with Captain Tedford, a naval officer, and friends . Tedford accompanies the young woman home and becomes intrusive. When Pamela pushes him away, he loses his balance and falls to his death over a banister. Pamela is charged with manslaughter , but acquitted at her mother's instigation, but in return has to agree to train as a nurse and help out in the nursing service on the war front in France . Pamela has no choice and reluctantly accepts it. She doesn't know that her mother, Miss O'Neil, put it all together. She last saw her mother when she was a little girl. Pamela is assigned to her mother's military division. The young woman shows her usual haughty behavior towards the other girls, which does not exactly make her popular and arouse suspicion with Gail Halliday, Ginger, Millie and Phyllis. When Pamela is also alone with Gail's fiancé, Lieutenant Larry Hall, in a barricaded cabin while their ship, which is on its way to France, is bombed, it causes further explosives. Soon after arriving in France, Larry and Pamela reunite during an air raid, intensifying Gail's suspicions. Meanwhile, Miss O'Neil tries to change Pamela's attitude and, despite her protests, assigns her additional duties. Time goes by and Pamela is becoming increasingly committed. During a night shift, Larry confesses to Pamela that he loves her and is determined to break off his engagement to Gail. Pamela replies that the whole thing was just a flirtation for her. During a patrol the next morning Larry is shot and comes to the infirmary, where he recovers relatively quickly. When Pamela says goodbye to him because her unit is to be transferred, she implores Larry that he must return to Gail. Gail, who partly overhears the conversation, misunderstands it ensures that the truck on which the women are a little later drives into a village that is under barrage fire . There the women save themselves in a cellar, where further dramatic incidents occur. Here Pamela learns from Frances, a colleague of Miss O'Neil, that she is her mother. O'Neil has since had the barrage ceased. Pamela visits her mother in the hospital, where not only is there a reconciliation between mother and daughter, but Pamela admits to herself, also at the encouragement of her mother, that she loves Larry. And that's what she finally wants to tell him.

Production and Background

Filming began on March 7, 1940. Republic Pictures was responsible for the production and distribution of the film. Women in War opened in US cinemas on June 6, 1940 .

Elsie Janis, a prominent American theater and film actress and author, made her last film appearance in Women in War .

criticism

Bosley Crowther of the New York Times was not very friendly about the film, spoke of a stencil-like production that tells a story in a low-budget way with the usual girl-nurse types, a romantic complication, but at least a graphic representation of gunfire and threatening kettledrums at the climax. The return of Elsie Janis, the memorable “sweetheart of the AEF” is also of little use. Women in War is mere adaptation to a fiction, overtaken by the gloomy reality.

Awards

1941 were Howard Lydecker , Bud Thackery , William Bradford and Herbert Norsch for Women in War in the category "Best Visual Effects" for an Oscar nomination. However, the award went to Lawrence W. Butler and Jack Whitney for the fantasy and adventure film The Thief of Baghdad .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Women in War (1940) Original Print Information at TCM - Turner Classic Movies (English)
  2. ↑ Women in War (1940) Notes at TCM - Turner Classic Movies (English)
  3. ^ Bosley Crowther: Women in War (1940) The Screen; 'Women in War', a Melodramatic Story of Nurses in France In: The New York Times, May 30, 1940. Retrieved January 18, 2014.