Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

mark.waltz Even when under Nazi guard in a detention center, these women gather together to fight, scheme, laugh, love and entertain-all for the purpose of getting three British soldiers who crash-landed near their temporary home to safety. This enjoyable drama of a different type of resistance features a diverse variety of characters-flirtatious, bitchy, noble, older and wiser, dizzy, and even betrayers like the oh-so-plucky butch floor leader who is actually a Nazi informer. Lead by legendary British actresses Phyllis Calvert and Flora Robson, this patriotic flag-waver is a salute to the women left alone while their men fought or were already victims of the Nazi evil. Robson as a no-nonsense spinster unafraid to stand up to the Nazis gives a memorable performance especially when facing the threat of being shipped to Germany for alerting the British Air Force to the compound during an air raid. There are many moments of great satisfaction that these women have in either fooling or harassing the Nazis, particularly one when they have a house meeting with one of the men in attendance in drag.

Robert J. Maxwell Patricia Roc is on leave from a French convent. She's wearing her nun's habit when the French authorities pick her up and accuse her of being a German spy. She LOOKS like a nun. She has a clean, honest, pretty face that's not overly expressive. I guess I should say she looks the way a nun SHOULD look. My nuns didn't resemble her at all. Mine impressed me as huge bat-like creatures waiting to swoop down on you with a ruler.Anyway, she's a novice, not yet having taken her vows. What this almost always means is that there's a man in her future -- and so there is.The Germans occupy the town and Roc is given crummy clothes and transferred to a guarded compound that used to be a luxury hotel, somewhere near Rouen. There are a thousand or more other British women held prisoner there. They are the usual varied group. There is Flora Robson with her long face and squinched eyes exuding authority. There is the cynical babe crepitating with wisecracks. There is the stripper (ie., whore) who is selling her body to the German sergeant in return for a single room instead of a double. There are one or two hefty Nazi moles in the group too.Their life in the internment camp didn't strike me as particularly demanding. Nobody complains about the food. It's an attractive resort hotel, after all, with spacious grounds including a summer house. Their most ardent complaint is that they have to schlepp hot water up four flights of stairs to take a bath and then two at a time must share the tub before the water cools. Except for the barbed-wired inner and outer walls, conditions are better than those under which I grew up.But the capacious rooms and the absence of genuine hardships is necessary to maintain the tone of the story, which is Gemutlich and even gay. The girls stage shows in the ballroom, with costumes and a band, to entertain one another as well as the German staff.Then -- cherchez l'homme. A British bomber is disabled over the compound and three men parachute inside its walls. They must be hidden from the soldiers and the spies. And then, after a romantic interlude between Patricia Roc -- whose character has the same name as an attractive girl I once took to Roseland in New York -- the three airmen must be helped to escape. As the aviators speed away in their stolen staff car, the ladies all gather on the stage and sing, "There'll Always Be An England." The story isn't uninteresting and there are a couple of witty lines in the dialog. At the beginning, Roc is hustled onto a German truck filled with other captured internees. The woman next to Roc introduces herself and begins gabbing away. A third girl is sitting there and, not having been introduced, asks, "Don't I exist?" The other snaps, "Yes, unfortunately." For all the dashing around, giggling, and chat, it's never slow or boring and there are some moments of genuine drama. A diverting war-time piece.

garlygogs I recently stumbled upon this film on Channel 4. Thankfully I only missed the first ten minutes as it turned out to be a most enjoyable film.If you're reading this review then you have most probably seen the movie so a synopsis is not needed.All I really have to say is that the mainly female cast is absolutely superb. I defy anyone to pick out a single performance that stands out from the rest. Phyllis Calvert, Patricia Roc, Thora Hird..the excellent cast just oozes British actresses who went on to even greater performances.The only thing that let's this film down are the actors who play the British soldiers. Whilst they are good, I found them maybe a little too old for the parts.All in all though, it is a splendid film. If a remake were made today, it could boast an amazing cast of todays British talent.I checked IMDb after watching this film and sadly, most of the cast are with us no more. It is as a tribute to them that I write this little review.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** The movie "2,000 Women" has to do with ex British showgirl and Paris night club singer Rosemary Brown who ends up becoming a nun after she broke up her cheating, on his wife, boyfriend's marriage. Now arrested by the French police as the German Army advances into France in the late spring of 1940 Rosemary is thrown into prison as a suspected German spy! It's later in the movie when Rosemary, after being freed from a French prison cell by the Germans, is sent to the German womens internment camp in Marneville France that things start to turn around for Rosemary as her, and her fellow 2,000 women internee's, live the kind of life that one can only dream about.Having all the convenience of living under stressful wartime conditions Rosemary and her fellow British women prisoners need only one thing to keep them from going crazy from boredom and that's a handsome and willing young man! And a British one at that! Not that the Nordic and Aryan looking German soldiers at the Marneville detention camp are not attractive! For the patriotic English girls to have any kind of relationships with their German captors, as the British lads are on the front lines getting shot at, was considered by them to be an act of treason against the British Crown!It's no too long when, like manna from heaven, three RAF bomber pilots and gunners parachute into Marneville to the delight of the man hungry women living there. Despite wanting to be with a man, a British man, more then anything else in the world the love starves British woman do everything possible to get the boys, who'd rather be there at Marneville then anywhere else, out safe and back to England even at the cost of their, and the fly-boys, lives!More of a comedy then a war propaganda movie "2,000 Women" has the hapless German soldiers at the womens detention camp get screwed at every turn in the film. These fearless and indestructible Nazi Supermen are so incompetent in keeping the women, looking like they just stepped out of Cosmopolitan Magazine, in line that you wonder how they at one time, in late 1942, were very seriously on the brink of winning WWII!Things almost backfire on the women's plan to get the fliers out safely to England when woman detainee, and Rita Hayworth look-alike, Birdie Johnson is caught by her fugitive, from the German Gestapo, RAF Canadian boyfriend Davy Kennedy alone in her room with German Army Sergeant Hentzner. Not knowing that Birdie was only using the love sick Sgt. Hentzner to get her tea bags and nothing else Davy blew a fuse and ended up strangling him to death!As you would expect in movies like these, made to lift wartime moral, Sgt. Hentzner in fighting for his very life not only failed to use his gun to defend himself from the disarmed Davy, who gave him every chance to discharge it, but also failed to open his mouth and scream for help with hundreds of fellow German soldiers within yards of coming to his rescue!**SPOILER ALERT** In the end the boys, the RAF men, are snuck out of Maneville by car as the girls, or women, distract the entire German Army stationed there with a song and dance as well as strip tease act. This has the Germans more interested in what's going on the stage then what going on, with the RAF men escaping, right under their noses!I kept wondering as the film so abruptly ended where exactly were the three RAF men going with the Germans controlling all the roads and highways leading to the English Channel which is their only avenue of escape? Wouldn't it have been far better for them just to stay at Marneville, with the 2,000 gorgeous and man hungry women, for the remainder of the war! With the Germans there so incompetent in doing their jobs there's no way they would have noticed them being there in the first place!