All-Male or All-Female movies? (1 Viewer)

[Voranand]

So it's *indeed* has female role? I think it's a pretty good candidate.

 

[Voranand]

 

[Voranand]

Well, you hit the nail on the head. This film only has two talents, just like you said. (if IMDB is not mistaken )

 

[Joseph DeMartino]

Definitely not Midway: the major shoreside subplot is Edward Albert, Jr.'s controversial romance with a Japanese-American woman, which papa Charleton Heston sees as a threat to Albert's naval career.

There were plenty of women, civilians and in uniform, at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Since Tora! Tora! Tora! tells the story of the attack from the point of view of both sides, I don't need to check the IMDB to feel certain that there are women in the film. (They dramatized a number of famous real-life incidents that happened in and around Pearl on the morning of the attack, and any number of these would have involved women.)

The Longest Day also dramatizes famous real events from the day, including several with civilians in Normandy that I know involved women. I also think women may have figured in some of the pre-invasion scenes in England.

It really isn't easy to do a whole picture, even a military one set in a war zone, without a single wife, girlfriend, or woman in a village appearing in some scene or flashback or prologue or epilogue.

Regards,

Joe

 

[Seth Paxton]

Woman. Can't live with 'em, can't make a movie without 'em.

GgGRoss and RDogs were the two I first thought of, but then I thought of the woman being pulled out of her car. And aren't there women in the background of the bar scenes in GgGRoss.

For a Few Dollars More comes pretty close doesn't it?

 

[DavidPla]

How about Kubrick's "Paths of Glory".

 

[Joseph DeMartino]

His wife appears as a German singer.

Joe

 

[Holadem]

Not just that, it's a pretty key scene at the very end of the movie.

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[Voranand]

So true. That's why I started the thread.

 

[Marianne]

I thought of war movies too, especially involving submarines. All the ones I looked up had women in them somewhere!

 

[DavidPla]

"Hell in the Pacific" with Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune!

 

[Jefferson Morris]

I believe Glengarry Glen Ross does, alas, have one female speaking part. I believe the hostess at the Chinese restaurant says "Slow tonight" to one of the male characters when he comes in. Levene, maybe.

Heck, even Carpenter's The Thing has some images of females, on the recorded game shows that the guys watch to pass the time. But admittedly that's nit-picky.

--Jefferson Morris

 

[TravisR]

Since Kurt Russell refers to the computer as a "cheatin' bitch", I think that qualifies as an appearance by a woman.

 

[Voranand]

You're right. It's still all-male cast, but good nit-picky. Wonder if we're as strict as that, how many films we will got left?

 

[ChrisWiggles]

I just thought of Hell in the Pacific, which only has Lee Marving and Toshiro Mifune as the only two characters.

 

[Voranand]

I think I should list all the films mentioned and no one counter for easy access.

John Boorman's Hell in the Pacific

Gus Van Sant's Gerry

(these 2 films should be ultimate 'cause I don't think you can find film with only one talent. )

Lord of the Flies?

Robert Aldrich's Attack!

Robert Aldrich's Emperor of the North

The Woman (1939)

Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

Ice Station Zebra

The Boys in the Band

Love! Valour! Compassion!

The Great Escape

12 Angry Men

John Carpenter's The Thing

Nice lists.

 

[Chris]

And the waitress who starts the fight over tips.. I can't remember if she said anything, but I'm sure she poured coffee.

Here's one:

March of the Penguins

OK, that out of the way..

hmm.

 

[Brian-A]

I'm pretty sure there were female penguins in the movie.

 

[Eric Howell]

I'm pretty sure Gerry shouldn't be on this list. I don't have the movie to confirm, and it has been four years but...

Doesn't a family (with at least one female) pick Damon up in the end?