7 Women (1965) on Netflix
In 1935 China, Miss Agatha Andrews runs a Christian mission. Dr. Cartwright arrives from Chicago, and the two women clash. Mongolian bandits under Tunga Khan are raiding nearby.
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Plot summary
At a Christian mission in rural China in 1935, almost every white resident is a woman, and the strict Miss Agatha Andrews runs the post. Charles Pether teaches there and had wanted to be a preacher; his wife Florrie, forty-two, is expecting their first child. The doctor who arrives is Dr. Cartwright, a Chicago woman who smokes, drinks, swears and wears pants. She and Andrews are at odds at once, and Emma Clark, the only young staff member, is fascinated by her. Cartwright tells Pether that Florrie's age makes a modern maternity ward safer for the birth. When the warlord Tunga Khan burns a nearby British mission, Andrews takes in its survivors, but only for a time.
Cast
- Jane Changas Miss Ling
- Hans William Leeas Kim
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 7 Women (1965)
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- John Ford considered Katharine Hepburn and Jennifer Jones for the role of Dr. Cartwright, and Rosalind Russell lobbied for the part, but Patricia Neal was cast. Neal suffered a stroke after three days of filming and Anne Bancroft took over.
- John Ford was unhappy with Anne Bancroft's work as Dr. Cartwright and called her "the mistress of monotone".
- 7 Women was the last feature film John Ford directed, ending a career that had spanned 53 years.
