Female
1933 · Movie · NR · 60 min · ★ 6.3 · 78% critics
A hard-driving auto company leader thrives in a male-dominated world, running her business with confidence and treating romance on her own terms. Her outlook is challenged when a new engineer refuses to play by her rules, pushing work, power, and attraction into conflict.
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Details
- Years
- 1933
- Release date
- 1933-11-11
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 60 min
- Critic score
- 78/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (32 votes)
About
If you enjoy daring pre-Code dramas about power, romance, and gender roles, this brisk curio may appeal, especially if you like Baby Face or Woman of the Year; Not for you if heavy period chauvinism will overshadow the fun.
Pros: bold gender-reversal premise; witty fast pace; stylish Art Deco look | Cons: dated sexism; uneven second half; forced character shift
Themes
- factory
- free love
- career woman
- engineer
- pre-code
- female executive
- working woman
- shooting gallery
Cast & crew
Ruth Chatterton
as Alison Drake
George Brent
as Jim Thorne
Lois Wilson
as Harriet Brown
Johnny Mack Brown
as George P. Cooper
Ruth Donnelly
as Miss Frothingham
Ferdinand Gottschalk
as Pettigrew
Phillip Reed
as Freddie Claybourne
Gavin Gordon
as Briggs
Kenneth Thomson
as Red
- HW
Huey White
as Puggy
Directed by Michael Curtiz