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Director
  
John H. Auer

Music director
  
Cy Feuer

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, War

Cinematography
  
Jack A. Marta

Language
  
English

Women in War movie poster

Writer
  
Doris Anderson
,
F. Hugh Herbert

Release date
  
June 6, 1940 (1940-06-06)

Cast
  
Elsie Janis
(Matron O'Neil),
Wendy Barrie
(Pamela Starr),
Patric Knowles
(Lt. Larry Hall),
Mae Clarke
(Gail Halliday),
Dennie Moore
(Ginger),
Dorothy Peterson
(Sister Frances)

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From her combat boots women in war zones


Women in War is a 1940 American war film about the nurses of the British Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) during the Battle of France. Directed by John H. Auer and starring Wendy Barrie, Elsie Janis and Patric Knowles, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (Howard Lydecker, William Bradford, Ellis J. Thackery, Herbert Norsch).

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Plot

Socialite Pamela Starr meets Mr Tedford, an older man in a London night club. After he escorts her home he tries to enter her flat feeling he has deserved the right to sleep with her as he has paid for her entertainment. Pamela thrusts a £5 note in his hands as reimbursement and attempts to enter her room but Tedford won't let her. The spirited Pamela strikes the drunken Tedford sending him across the landing where he crashes through a railing over the stairwell sending Tedford to his death.

The ensuing court case doesn't go well for Pamela as her playgirl lifestyle is paraded as evidence against her and to Pamela's surprise Mr Tedford was actually a British Captain on leave from the war front. Watching the trial is Matron O'Neil who was formerly Pamela's mother until she divorced her husband and left to go nursing around the troubled world to help those in need. Pamela had never known her mother and her late libertine father had denied her moral leadership and discipline in raising her. O'Neil and Pamela's defence solicitor concoct an arrangement where Pamela won't be charged with Tedford's death if she volunteers to be an Army nurse in France. Pamela is assigned to a VAD Detachment led by Matron O'Neil with Pamela still unaware that O'Neil is her mother.

Pamela's infamous reputation precedes her and furthermore the fiancee of one of her fellow nurses, Flt Lt Larry Hall of the RAF falls in love with Pamela. The tensions of the nurses continue as their detachment is sent to a dangerous area of the battle line.

Cast

  • Elsie Janis as Matron O'Neil, formerly Mrs. Starr
  • Wendy Barrie as Pamela Starr
  • Patric Knowles as Flt Lt. Larry Hall
  • Mae Clarke as Gail Halliday
  • Dennie Moore as Ginger
  • Dorothy Peterson as Sister Frances
  • Billy Gilbert as Pierre, the Cobbler
  • Colin Tapley as Capt. Tedford, the Masher
  • Stanley Logan as Col. Starr
  • Barbara Pepper as Millie, Irish Nurse
  • Pamela Randell as Phyllis Grant, Nurse
  • Lawrence Grant as Sir Gordon, Defense Attorney
  • Lester Matthews as Sir Humphrey, Prosecuting attorney
  • Holmes Herbert as Chief Justice
  • Peter Cushing as Capt. Evans

    • References

    Women in War Wikipedia
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    Women in War IMDb Women in War themoviedb.org