7 Women (1965)
1h 27m | PG-13
In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.
Director: John Ford
Studio: John Ford Productions
Genre: Drama, History
Video: 720p
Cast
Anne Bancroft
as Dr. D.R. Cartwright
Sue Lyon
as Emma Clark
Margaret Leighton
as Agatha Andrews
Flora Robson
as Miss Binns
Mildred Dunnock
as Jane Argent
Betty Field
as Mrs. Florrie Pether
Reviews
This is quite a curious swan-song for John Ford. An almost all-woman cast led by Anne Bancroft and Margaret Leighton are stranded in a remote missionary. When the local army battalion abandon their posts, a gang of marauding warriors take over their home and at some considerable risk to themselves, they must try and survive the encounter - and a cholera outbreak too. To be honest, not a lot goes on and the character depicted by Bancroft - a confident, self-reliant doctor, is oddly out of place for the scenario; especially when placed with the rather timid, puritanical, Leighton and a really under-used Flora Robson as "Miss Binns", and the ending is all just a bit too sudden.