AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

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.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

syrjudy I've enjoyed reading these comments. Every once in a while, when I think of good shows, I'll look this one up again -- to see if it's become available. Still not yet, huh? I know our memories play tricks on us, but my most vivid image comes, I think, at the end, after we've watched the interaction with the father, the boyfriend, and the barrister. I think she runs into the Michael Caine character again, after she's been hurt and done some growing up. Anyway, he tells her: " . . . and I won't lay a glove on you, girl, not 'til you're ready." At least that's how I remember it -- as I became a forever Michael Caine fan.So good . . . Anyone else remember it that way?

sdesanctis Sir Paul Scofield and Michael Caine (and do I remember correctly Sean Connery doing narration?), in a TV release - what a treat! I remember this as one of the finest things on TV from my adolesence (otherwise spent watchingThe Monkees, I Love Lucy re-runs, and F-Troop), a pity that it has disappeared. I've been looking for it since VHS came around, but I guess it was too intelligent to be a blockbuster. I wish I remembered more of it, I was 12 at the time and I imagine a lot of it went straight over my head, but now even the script is nowhere to be found. The actress, Anna Calder-Marshall, went on to star the following year as Cathy in "Wuthering Heights" to Timothy Dalton's Heathcliff (not your Laurence Olivier version, sexy and closer to the book in some ways). In reading the other comments here, my memory is still not jogged enough to remember much more about this, although I thought in the last act of this trilogy she met with her comeuppance - can anyone remember a more linear description of the plot of this 1969 gem? I remember that the title seemed misleading, the male figures gravitating around the central character - the girl - were of less consequence than her reaction to them, it seemed to say more about the FEmale of the species than the male, and her betrayals, her disloyalties and shortcomings seemed more shocking than those of the men in her life.

vjbess When The Male of the Species aired, I was a college student, home on vacation, and watched with my mother. We were positively glued to the TV set. Sean Connery, known at that time (1969) to American audiences only as 007 in the early James Bond films, showed a bit of his acting range to good advantage. Michael Caine had a big hit in the USA a few years earlier with Alfie, but it was this television role that made him one of my favorite actors. If you were to ask me about any other television shows, specials, or series from 1967-1971 I would be hard pressed to come up with even one. If anyone can find a tape of this outstanding show, please make it available for airing or for purchase!! I believe James Mason was also in this one, in a small role at the end...can anyone confirm?

susan.barlow This 1969 TV movie starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Paul Scofield, and a female British actress whose name I do not remember. Connery was the father of the young woman and he was a master carpenter. Paul Scofield was a prominent businessman (and perhaps a minor government minister--very distinguished). Michael Caine was a cockney office worker who was somewhat bumbling, awkward, unskilled and appeared to lack a promising future. The movie centers around the young woman and her relationship and interaction with each of the males in the story. Broadcast on public television before VCRs, I stayed home to watch the repeat broadcast two weeks after the original. Each of the males was perfectly cast because their offscreen persona are, in my opinion, very much like the characters they played.I would love to get my hands on a copy of this TV movie and have searched the New York Public Library and the Internet for quite some time. It would be well worth your while to help me find it so you, too, can enjoy this wonderful story.