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“Seven 'gentle' British girls who decide to "do their bit" and help out during World War II.”
The Gentle Sex (1943)
May 23, 19431h 32mEN
7.0
12 votes
Overview
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
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Leslie HowardWriter
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Original Language
English
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Production Companies
Derrick De Marney ProductionsTwo Cities FilmsConcanen ProductionsJ. Arthur Rank Organisation
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CinemaSerf
6.0This is more of a docu-drama, depicting as it does the efforts of the women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) in the UK during WWII. It's not quite propaganda - it does show some of the hairier, scarier aspects of their jobs amidst the war - but it does largely focus on the huge range of tasks they undertook from sight-ranging for the guns trying to stop the doodlebugs to driving essential supplies from one end of the country to the other to keep the logistical wheels of warfare working efficiently. Leslie Howard has interwoven these factually based scenarios with some strong fictional cha…
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