Women in the Night (1948)
1948 · Feature film · 92 min · dir. William Rowland
Unspeakable atrocities!
- Drama
- War
Synopsis
Women in the Night is a 1948 American film directed by William Rowland shot in Mexico. The film is also known as When Men Are Beasts. The film depicts activities of German and Japanese who wish revenge on the Allies with a cosmic ray weapon.
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- William Rowland
- Writer
- Ali Ipar
- Composer
- Raúl Lavista
- Cinematography
- Eugen Schüfftan
- Studio
- Louis K. Ansell Productions
- Released
- 1948-01-02
- Running time
- 92 minutes
Cast & crew
- William Rowland Director
Benson Fong
William "Bill" Henry
Jean Brooks
Philip Ahn
Richard Loo
Virginia Christine
Tala Birell
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Entertaining! · karlom · 2006-01-01
A group of women (one from each of the bigger Allied countries) is held by Nazis in Shanghai, who have developed a super weapon more devastating than the atomic bomb. For a movie made only three years after the war it is historically extremely inaccurate. Nevertheless, entertaining if watched as involuntary comedy.
★★ · Oh dear · terracesider · 2006-01-27
Germany may have lost the war in Europe but world domination will be achieved through their secret atomic weapons. This could have been a serious attempt to bring to public attention Japanese crimes against the so-called "comfort women", a scandal that has refused to go away ever since. However, the dire script turns it into, to borrow karlom's phrase, "involuntary comedy". Pity the cast, who put in some sterling peformances to be rewarded by this Turkey.
★ · Made on a budget of a buck thirty eight? · Dr Feel Rotten · 2010-11-28
Even though this had almost nothing to do with the subject it said it did and the women were barely abused at all except by the lone German female who could have won the war completely by herself with her nasty slap. The rest of the officers couldn't have won a game of tidly winks much less a war. If I'm not mistaken the burning building was from stock footage of a movie about arson and not of war plus the truck crashing off the bridge was about 3 inches tall...Oh I can't go on. I'm ruining a great movie... No wait.. The producers, actors and directors did that for them. Accidental comedy is…









