The Weaker Sex (1948)

Directors

Roy Ward Baker

Cast

Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins, Derek Bond, Lana Morris

The story

Set near Portsmouth, one of the main bases for the D-Day invasion fleet, the film portrays life on the British home front during World War II. During the run up to D-Day in 1944, widowed Martha Dacre tries to keep house and home together for her two daughters and two servicemen billeted on her, including Geoffrey, a naval officer who was a friend of her deceased husband. Although her two daughters serve as Wrens, and her son is away in the Navy, she has chosen to stay at home as a housewife, but she also participates in fire-watching and works in a canteen for the armed forces.

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