Two Thousand Women. Copyright: Gainsborough Pictures 1928 Limited
Two Thousand Women

Two Thousand Women

  • 1944 film

Film set in 1944 in a Nazi-run French internment camp for British women caught up in the invasion of Europe. Stars Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc, Renee Houston, Reginald Purdell and more.

Key details

Genre
Film
Released
1944
Stars
Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc, Renee Houston, Reginald Purdell, Anne Crawford, Jean Kent, James McKechnie and more
Writers
Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat, Michael Pertwee, Mathilde Epton and Edith Nicholson
Director
Frank Launder
Producer
Edward Black
Company

Set in Marville, a women's internment camp in Nazi-occupied France, Two Thousand Women is the exciting tale of a group of British women from varied backgrounds brought together under extraordinary circumstances.

Forced to live together, the women have to put aside their social differences and band together to protect not just themselves, but three survivors from a British bomber shot down over France who bail out and land right in the middle of the camp's grounds. The women POWs swiftly hide the British airmen, but discovery is only ever seconds away and the tension mounting between them is palpable - especially when they discover that a Nazi spy lurks amongst them. When a lustful guard is killed by one of the airmen, a breakout seems the only option...

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Additional details

UK certificate
A
Duration
93 minutes
UK release
Monday 6th November 1944
Production
Studio
Camera set-up
Single camera
Picture
Black and white

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Broadcast details

Most recent repeats
  • Thursday 31st March 2022 at 1:10pm on Film4
  • Tuesday 8th March 2022 at 11:00am on Film4
  • Tuesday 1st March 2022 at 11:00am on Film4

Recording details

  • Gainsborough Studios

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