7 Women (1965)
In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.
- John Ford
- Wingate Smith
- Janet Green
- John McCormick
- Norah Lofts
Rating: 6.5/10 by 64 users
Alternative Title:
Seven Women - US
Frontière chinoise - FR
Sieben Frauen - DE
7 Mulheres - BR
Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 27 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: mission, missionary, warlord, doctor, bandit
This is quite a curious swan-song for John Ford. An almost all-woman cast led by Anne Bancroft and Margaret Leighton are stranded in a remote missionary. When the local army battalion abandon their posts, a gang of marauding warriors take over their home and at some considerable risk to themselves, they must try and survive the encounter - and a cholera outbreak too. To be honest, not a lot goes on and the character depicted by Bancroft - a confident, self-reliant doctor, is oddly out of place for the scenario; especially when placed with the rather timid, puritanical, Leighton and a really under-used Flora Robson as "Miss Binns", and the ending is all just a bit too sudden.
