The Gentle Sex
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| Directed by | Leslie Howard |
| Produced by | Derrick de Marney |
| Written by | Moie Charles |
| Starring | Joan Gates Jean Gillie Joan Greenwood Joyce Howard Rosamund John Lilli Palmer Ronald Shiner |
| Narrated by | Leslie Howard |
| Music by | John D. H. Greenwood |
| Cinematography | Robert Krasker |
| Edited by | Charles Saunders |
| Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
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Release date
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15 April 1943 |
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Running time
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92 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Gentle Sex is a 1943 British, black-and-white romantic comedy-drama war film directed and narrated by Leslie Howard. It was produced by Concanen Productions, Two Cities Films and Derrick de Marney.The Gentle Sex was Howard's last film before his death.
The documentary-drama follows seven women from different backgrounds who meet at an Auxiliary Territorial Service training camp. "Gentle" British girls, now doing their bit to help out in World War II: drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries. Leslie Howard provides narration through the course of the film.
TV Guide noted, "some lucid and funny moments in a capable and intelligent production for its time"; and Billy Mowbray wrote, for Film 4, "if only social history was this good at school. Funny, fascinating and probably unlike any film you've seen before, The Gentle Sex is a bona fide cultural treasure."
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