mark.waltz Even when under Nazi guard in a detention center, these women gather together to fight, scheme, laugh, love and entertain-all for the purpose of getting three British soldiers who crash-landed near their temporary home to safety. This enjoyable drama of a different type of resistance features a diverse variety of characters-flirtatious, bitchy, noble, older and wiser, dizzy, and even betrayers like the oh-so-plucky butch floor leader who is actually a Nazi informer. Lead by legendary British actresses Phyllis Calvert and Flora Robson, this patriotic flag-waver is a salute to the women left alone while their men fought or were already victims of the Nazi evil. Robson as a no-nonsense spinster unafraid to stand up to the Nazis gives a memorable performance especially when facing the threat of being shipped to Germany for alerting the British Air Force to the compound during an air raid. There are many moments of great satisfaction that these women have in either fooling or harassing the Nazis, particularly one when they have a house meeting with one of the men in attendance in drag.

MartinHafer While I could see a few plot problems here and there, this British propaganda film did a good job of rallying the folks at home for the war effort. It begins in France just after the fall of the country (summer 1942). While you rarely hear about them, naturally some British citizens got stranded in the country and could not make it back to the UK. This film concerns British women who were interred by the Germans in a rather nice and luxurious hotel. While I have no idea how the Germans actually treated such women, I doubt if they were as nice and lax as they were in the film. This is a rare case where the Nazis portrayed in the propaganda film seemed nicer than the real thing--usually it's the other way around! The film initially is about these women adjusting to their new home and it took a strange turn when three British airmen were shot down and actually sought refuge with the women! The idea of them being able to just sneak in to this guarded facility seemed hard to believe. However, because the acting was very good as well as the direction and script, it seemed to work well. Despite a good job, there were a few sour notes. One was that when the prisoners or escaped fliers fought with Nazis, the bad guys had a very convenient habit of NOT crying out for help when they were attacked!! The other was late in the film when one woman went from loving one of the fliers to turning him in to the Nazis with incredible speed--it made no sense and seemed quite contrived. Still, the film generally underplayed the drama and was otherwise pretty convincing.For a somewhat similar plot but better handled is Claudette Colbert's "Three Came Home"--which is based on a real American woman's experience in a Japanese internment camp.

Alex da Silva The setting is a women's internment camp which resembles a very large, posh country house with several halls, plenty of space and some luxury rooms. Three RAF pilots find their way into the camp and the women must hide them before these 3 heroic chaps can make their escape. Will things work out as planned....? There are definitely not 2,000 women in this place. There are, however, a group of irritating women who deserve to be incarcerated. Phyllis Calvert as "Freda" speaks in a ghastly posh accent for the whole film and is quite annoying. Jean Kent as "Bridie" is the funniest to watch while Renee Houston as "Maude" is far better as a cabaret singer/performer than as a wise-cracking street-girl. Betty Jardine does well as section supervisor "Teresa" but there are no great performances in this story. Patricia Roc as "Rosemary" comes off as the best character but she shouldn't be in the film in the first place. She is caught by the French signalling to German airplanes to blow up an ammunition hold. She's in the wrong goddam prison! An attempt is made at sentimentalism by having somebody sing "There's no place like home" whilst we pan across several of the women's faces. It's rubbish. Another moment that doesn't work happens when Muriel (Flora Robson) and Clairen (Muriel Aked) are taken away to a German prison camp. I'm afraid that we just don't care! There is no drama. The men have absolutely no presence and come across as slightly wimpish.The ending is laughably bad. I'm not referring to the plot but to the rendition of "There'll always be an England". However, the film is lightweight fluff that passes the time and it's OK as that.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** The movie "2,000 Women" has to do with ex British showgirl and Paris night club singer Rosemary Brown who ends up becoming a nun after she broke up her cheating, on his wife, boyfriend's marriage. Now arrested by the French police as the German Army advances into France in the late spring of 1940 Rosemary is thrown into prison as a suspected German spy! It's later in the movie when Rosemary, after being freed from a French prison cell by the Germans, is sent to the German womens internment camp in Marneville France that things start to turn around for Rosemary as her, and her fellow 2,000 women internee's, live the kind of life that one can only dream about.Having all the convenience of living under stressful wartime conditions Rosemary and her fellow British women prisoners need only one thing to keep them from going crazy from boredom and that's a handsome and willing young man! And a British one at that! Not that the Nordic and Aryan looking German soldiers at the Marneville detention camp are not attractive! For the patriotic English girls to have any kind of relationships with their German captors, as the British lads are on the front lines getting shot at, was considered by them to be an act of treason against the British Crown!It's no too long when, like manna from heaven, three RAF bomber pilots and gunners parachute into Marneville to the delight of the man hungry women living there. Despite wanting to be with a man, a British man, more then anything else in the world the love starves British woman do everything possible to get the boys, who'd rather be there at Marneville then anywhere else, out safe and back to England even at the cost of their, and the fly-boys, lives!More of a comedy then a war propaganda movie "2,000 Women" has the hapless German soldiers at the womens detention camp get screwed at every turn in the film. These fearless and indestructible Nazi Supermen are so incompetent in keeping the women, looking like they just stepped out of Cosmopolitan Magazine, in line that you wonder how they at one time, in late 1942, were very seriously on the brink of winning WWII!Things almost backfire on the women's plan to get the fliers out safely to England when woman detainee, and Rita Hayworth look-alike, Birdie Johnson is caught by her fugitive, from the German Gestapo, RAF Canadian boyfriend Davy Kennedy alone in her room with German Army Sergeant Hentzner. Not knowing that Birdie was only using the love sick Sgt. Hentzner to get her tea bags and nothing else Davy blew a fuse and ended up strangling him to death!As you would expect in movies like these, made to lift wartime moral, Sgt. Hentzner in fighting for his very life not only failed to use his gun to defend himself from the disarmed Davy, who gave him every chance to discharge it, but also failed to open his mouth and scream for help with hundreds of fellow German soldiers within yards of coming to his rescue!**SPOILER ALERT** In the end the boys, the RAF men, are snuck out of Maneville by car as the girls, or women, distract the entire German Army stationed there with a song and dance as well as strip tease act. This has the Germans more interested in what's going on the stage then what going on, with the RAF men escaping, right under their noses!I kept wondering as the film so abruptly ended where exactly were the three RAF men going with the Germans controlling all the roads and highways leading to the English Channel which is their only avenue of escape? Wouldn't it have been far better for them just to stay at Marneville, with the 2,000 gorgeous and man hungry women, for the remainder of the war! With the Germans there so incompetent in doing their jobs there's no way they would have noticed them being there in the first place!