I watched it. Now I can't unwatch it.
So, my mother loves her cheesetastic, only shocking in 1935 pre-Code old movies.
Last night's fare was a film called Female.
It was, without any question, the most offensive, misogynistic load of horseshit I have ever seen.
The plot is thus:
Alison Drake is owner and successful manager of an automobile factory. She also has a good relations with her employees - especially the male ones, which she is known to invite to her bed for some time and then dump quickly. Then she meets Jim Thorne. Thorne doesn't treat her like 'Ms. Drake', he treats her like Alison, a pretty, sweet, delicate woman who must be taken care of. He even wants to marry her--a real marriage, with children and a home and all that stuff, not the glorified business offers all of her past many proposals have been. Alison of course refuses and he leaves her.
At this point, our heroine of course realizes that she's totally in love with Thorne and rushes off to beg his forgiveness. Never mind that doing so means she'll miss the hugely important meeting that is the only thing keeping her company from being bought out. Did I mention that this comes after the scene where upon learning of the company buy out, she locks herself in her office and cries like a baby? And that her assistant comforts her by saying "There, there. What's to be expected? What can you do? After all, you're only a woman."
Anyway, shocker to no one: Alison tracks Jim down, she basically throws herself at his feet, he takes her back, and he even manages to get them to the meeting on time to save the company. Which Alison then happily turns over to her dear husband as a wedding gift because she's decided that being the female Henry Ford is no fun anymore and that all she really wants to be is a wife and mother. The film ends with Alison telling Jim that she hopes they have 'At least' nine children.
Oh my GOD!!!
Isn't that the most romantic thing you've ever heard? Thank heaven she saw the light and was saved from a life of sexual and financial independence!
I swear, this movie would have made Ernest Hemingway say "Whoa, step the fuck back."
It was like the ultimate in Focus on the Family spank bank material.
Ya know, if they did that sort of thing...