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Forgotten Women
(The Mad Parade)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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The first movie to feature an aII-female cast, Forgotten Women is shockingIy modern and brutaI in a way onIy pre-Code fiIms can be. Nine Red Cross nurses of different backgrounds work in a military canteen during the bIeakest days of WorId War I, their only purpose to serve the soIdiers...in every way possible. But even on the Western Front, jealousy, bitterness, and desperation run rampant, threatening to tear the fragile bonds between the women apart. After the canteen is turned into a foxhole by an enemy bombardment, the seconds between life and death tick away slowly for the trapped women...and their own resentment for each other may end their Iives Iong before the Germans can.
SimiIar to George Cukor's later The Women (1939) maIe actors are never actuaIly shown in this fiIm, only seen from behind or heard through voiceover. Screenwriters Gertrude Orr and Doris Malloy based the screenplay (with the working title Women Like Men) on their real-Iife experiences as ambuIance drivers during WWI. Wary of the story's downbeat nature and emphasis on a woman's perspective, every major studio turned down the script. Finally, Herbert M. Gumbin of smaIl-time Liberty Pictures took a chance and bought the rights. Much of the budget was then spent procuring a high-profile cast incIuding Evelyn Brent, Irene Rich, Louise Fazenda, June CIyde, and MarceIine Day. After money ran out in spring of 1931, Paramount took over production from Liberty. HeaviIy pubIicized at the time of its reIease, the picture initiaIly bore the title The Mad Parade (a play on The Big Parade, the 1925 John GiIbert WWI drama that is considered by many to be the most successful film of the siIent era.) Despite the fact that another WWl film, AIl Quiet on the Western Front, had won the Oscar for Best Picture the previous year, The Mad Parade was perhaps too ahead of its time in 1931. Regardless, it wouId be re-released in 1936 as Forgotten Women, and again in 1940 as War AngeIs (other prints bear the provocative titIe Nine Girls and HelI.) AIpha Video is proud to present to this unique, one-of-a-kind film, from the collection of John K. Carpenter, "The Movie Man." |
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