Two Thousand Women (1944)

Directed by

Frank Launder

Genre

drama film, war film, prison film, comedy drama

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 37m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During World War Two, British women are held in a German internment camp in France. Three RAF crewmen crash nearby and hide inside the camp. The women work together to keep them safe from the Germans.

light-heartedpluckywartimesuspensefulhumorousfast-paceddefiantupbeat

What happens

Two Thousand Women is a 1944 British comedy-drama war film about a German internment camp in Occupied France which holds British women who have been resident in the country. Three RAF aircrewmen, whose bomber has been shot down, enter the camp and are hidden by the women from the Germans. The film was released in the United States 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, along with Millions Like Us (1943) and Waterloo Road (1945). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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