THE WEAKER SEX
(Rank-Two Cities) (THE Weaker Sex, a pretty literal screen version of the stage play No Medals, by Esther McCracken, is a most worthy attempt to pay tribute to the women of Britain for the courage and endurance which they have shown during and since the war. Good intentions alone, however, do not make good
plays or good films and the Dacre family (headed by Ursula Jeans) is rather too conventional in its attitudes--and in its experiences-to be altogeher convincing. There are too many stiff upper lips and the script suffers from such well rubbed lines as "I mustn’t break down ; . I mustn’t. Let’s talk about the weather-anything." Filmgoers whose memories are long enough may find points of resemblance between The Weaker Sex and Cavalcade. The smooth competendée of Mr. Coward’s technique is, of course,. lacking in the present show, but so too are his more grandiloquent vulgarities. ge
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 512, 14 April 1949, Page 15
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151THE WEAKER SEX New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 512, 14 April 1949, Page 15
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