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7 women (Motion picture : 1966)

"In the 1930's Mongol Tunga Khan is terrorizing the people of the Chinese border. In the area is an American mission headed by prim, iron-willed Agatha Andrews. Assisting her are admiring Jane Argent, young Emma Clark, ineffectual teacher Charles Pether, and his frightened, pregnant wife, Florrie. At first glad to hear that a Dr. Cartwright will soon be joining them, Agatha is displeased when the doctor turns out to be a cynical, worldly woman. The conflict between the two women is sharpened with the arrival of cholera-bearing refugees from the nearby ravaged British mission headed by Miss Binns, and matters are not helped by Agatha's refusal to provide the funds necessary to send Florrie to a hospital. When the Chinese soldiers protecting the area depart, Pether, with new courage, sets out to seek news but is killed. Tunga Khan and his forces storm into the mission as Florrie's labor pains begin. To pacify the invaders, Dr. Cartwright agrees to give herself to the warlord once she has delivered the baby; then, after the child is born, she uses her new power over Tunga Khan to provide for the pressing needs of the women and child. Miss Andrews, hysterically losing control, condemns Dr. Cartwright as a wanton and lustful woman, but the others understand her sacrifice. Dr. Cartwright then gets Tunga Khan's permission for the women to leave the mission. After their departure, she secretly poisons some wine and shares a toast with the warlord"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940.

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  • "Seven women (Motion picture : 1966)"@en
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  • ""In the 1930's Mongol Tunga Khan is terrorizing the people of the Chinese border. In the area is an American mission headed by prim, iron-willed Agatha Andrews. Assisting her are admiring Jane Argent, young Emma Clark, ineffectual teacher Charles Pether, and his frightened, pregnant wife, Florrie. At first glad to hear that a Dr. Cartwright will soon be joining them, Agatha is displeased when the doctor turns out to be a cynical, worldly woman. The conflict between the two women is sharpened with the arrival of cholera-bearing refugees from the nearby ravaged British mission headed by Miss Binns, and matters are not helped by Agatha's refusal to provide the funds necessary to send Florrie to a hospital. When the Chinese soldiers protecting the area depart, Pether, with new courage, sets out to seek news but is killed. Tunga Khan and his forces storm into the mission as Florrie's labor pains begin. To pacify the invaders, Dr. Cartwright agrees to give herself to the warlord once she has delivered the baby; then, after the child is born, she uses her new power over Tunga Khan to provide for the pressing needs of the women and child. Miss Andrews, hysterically losing control, condemns Dr. Cartwright as a wanton and lustful woman, but the others understand her sacrifice. Dr. Cartwright then gets Tunga Khan's permission for the women to leave the mission. After their departure, she secretly poisons some wine and shares a toast with the warlord"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940."@en
  • "The story is set in a mission in China during 1935 and Anne Bancroft is the tough, realistic doctor who locks horns with the domineering head of the mission, Margaret Leighton, a woman of strict moral values. Then their world is shattered by invading bandits and gallantry, courage and sacrifice -traits common to all Ford films- rise to the surface."@en
  • "Ford's last and most abstract drama is set in an American mission on the Chinese-Mongolian border in 1935, a time of lawlessness and violence. Order, tenuously maintained by the motley group within the mission, is fatally threatened by the forces of chaos represented by cholera and the invading Mongolians."@en
  • "Ford's last and most abstract drama is set in an American mission on the Chinese-Mongolian border in 1935, a time of lawlessness and violence. Order, tenuously maintained by the motley group within the mission, is fatally threatened by the forces of chaos represented by cholera and the invading Mongolians."
  • "Ford's last and most abstract drama is set in an American mission on the Chinese-Mongolian border in 1935, a time of lawlessness and violence. Order, tenuously maintained by the motley group within the mission, is fatally threatened by the forces of chaos represented by cholera and the invading Mongolians. A commercial and critical failure at the time of its release, the classicism of Seven Women succinctly summed up by Andrew Sarris as 'an economy of means yielding a profusion of effects' is now widely recognised. This is never more evident than in the portrayal of the central relationship between the isolated and repressed Andrews and the worldly Dr. Cartwright, diametrically opposed yet essentially similar to the point that the two women can each be seen as the alter ego of the other drawing forces of chaos which destroy them both."@en
  • "The story is set in a mission in China during 1935 and Anne Bancroft is the tough, realistic doctor who locks horns with the domineering head of the misssion, Margaret Leighton, a woman of strict moral values. Then their world is shattered by invading bandits and gallantry; courage and sacrifice rise to the surface."

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