***SPOILERS*** The movie "2,000 Women" has to do with ex British showgirl and Paris night club singer Rosemary Brown who ends up becoming a nun after she broke up her cheating, on his wife, boyfriend's marriage. Now arrested by the French police as the German Army advances into France in the late spring of 1940 Rosemary is thrown into prison as a suspected German spy! It's later in the movie when Rosemary, after being freed from a French prison cell by the Germans, is sent to the German womens internment camp in Marneville France that things start to turn around for Rosemary as her, and her fellow 2,000 women internee's, live the kind of life that one can only dream about.
Having all the convenience of living under stressful wartime conditions Rosemary and her fellow British women prisoners need only one thing to keep them from going crazy from boredom and that's a handsome and willing young man! And a British one at that! Not that the Nordic and Aryan looking German soldiers at the Marneville detention camp are not attractive! For the patriotic English girls to have any kind of relationships with their German captors, as the British lads are on the front lines getting shot at, was considered by them to be an act of treason against the British Crown!
It's no too long when, like manna from heaven, three RAF bomber pilots and gunners parachute into Marneville to the delight of the man hungry women living there. Despite wanting to be with a man, a British man, more then anything else in the world the love starves British woman do everything possible to get the boys, who'd rather be there at Marneville then anywhere else, out safe and back to England even at the cost of their, and the fly-boys, lives!
More of a comedy then a war propaganda movie "2,000 Women" has the hapless German soldiers at the womens detention camp get screwed at every turn in the film. These fearless and indestructible Nazi Supermen are so incompetent in keeping the women, looking like they just stepped out of Cosmopolitan Magazine, in line that you wonder how they at one time, in late 1942, were very seriously on the brink of winning WWII!
Things almost backfire on the women's plan to get the fliers out safely to England when woman detainee, and Rita Hayworth look-alike, Birdie Johnson is caught by her fugitive, from the German Gestapo, RAF Canadian boyfriend Davy Kennedy alone in her room with German Army Sergeant Hentzner. Not knowing that Birdie was only using the love sick Sgt. Hentzner to get her tea bags and nothing else Davy blew a fuse and ended up strangling him to death!
As you would expect in movies like these, made to lift wartime moral, Sgt. Hentzner in fighting for his very life not only failed to use his gun to defend himself from the disarmed Davy, who gave him every chance to discharge it, but also failed to open his mouth and scream for help with hundreds of fellow German soldiers within yards of coming to his rescue!
**SPOILER ALERT** In the end the boys, the RAF men, are snuck out of Maneville by car as the girls, or women, distract the entire German Army stationed there with a song and dance as well as strip tease act. This has the Germans more interested in what's going on the stage then what going on, with the RAF men escaping, right under their noses!
I kept wondering as the film so abruptly ended where exactly were the three RAF men going with the Germans controlling all the roads and highways leading to the English Channel which is their only avenue of escape? Wouldn't it have been far better for them just to stay at Marneville, with the 2,000 gorgeous and man hungry women, for the remainder of the war! With the Germans there so incompetent in doing their jobs there's no way they would have noticed them being there in the first place!
Having all the convenience of living under stressful wartime conditions Rosemary and her fellow British women prisoners need only one thing to keep them from going crazy from boredom and that's a handsome and willing young man! And a British one at that! Not that the Nordic and Aryan looking German soldiers at the Marneville detention camp are not attractive! For the patriotic English girls to have any kind of relationships with their German captors, as the British lads are on the front lines getting shot at, was considered by them to be an act of treason against the British Crown!
It's no too long when, like manna from heaven, three RAF bomber pilots and gunners parachute into Marneville to the delight of the man hungry women living there. Despite wanting to be with a man, a British man, more then anything else in the world the love starves British woman do everything possible to get the boys, who'd rather be there at Marneville then anywhere else, out safe and back to England even at the cost of their, and the fly-boys, lives!
More of a comedy then a war propaganda movie "2,000 Women" has the hapless German soldiers at the womens detention camp get screwed at every turn in the film. These fearless and indestructible Nazi Supermen are so incompetent in keeping the women, looking like they just stepped out of Cosmopolitan Magazine, in line that you wonder how they at one time, in late 1942, were very seriously on the brink of winning WWII!
Things almost backfire on the women's plan to get the fliers out safely to England when woman detainee, and Rita Hayworth look-alike, Birdie Johnson is caught by her fugitive, from the German Gestapo, RAF Canadian boyfriend Davy Kennedy alone in her room with German Army Sergeant Hentzner. Not knowing that Birdie was only using the love sick Sgt. Hentzner to get her tea bags and nothing else Davy blew a fuse and ended up strangling him to death!
As you would expect in movies like these, made to lift wartime moral, Sgt. Hentzner in fighting for his very life not only failed to use his gun to defend himself from the disarmed Davy, who gave him every chance to discharge it, but also failed to open his mouth and scream for help with hundreds of fellow German soldiers within yards of coming to his rescue!
**SPOILER ALERT** In the end the boys, the RAF men, are snuck out of Maneville by car as the girls, or women, distract the entire German Army stationed there with a song and dance as well as strip tease act. This has the Germans more interested in what's going on the stage then what going on, with the RAF men escaping, right under their noses!
I kept wondering as the film so abruptly ended where exactly were the three RAF men going with the Germans controlling all the roads and highways leading to the English Channel which is their only avenue of escape? Wouldn't it have been far better for them just to stay at Marneville, with the 2,000 gorgeous and man hungry women, for the remainder of the war! With the Germans there so incompetent in doing their jobs there's no way they would have noticed them being there in the first place!