i am impressed that hail the woman was made at all while released just one year after american women got the vote and this turgid drama makes an earnest plea against the sexual double standard which judges women sexual behaviour more harshly than men . slight spoilers ahead. a prologue and set in the plymouth colony in 1621 and shows a pilgrim girl sentenced to the ducking stool for flirting with a boy while the boy is not penalised. now we come to flint hill and new hampshire in the present (1921). oliver beresford (theodore roberts) is a bombastic bible thumper represent what we call in britain and australia a god botherer. beresford is determined that his son david (lloyd hughes) become a preacher and regardless of how david feels about it. as for beresford daughter judith . well and beresford is confident that women aren not important enough to be anything more than wives and mothers. apparently and god told him this personally. david evangelical career is compromised when he impregnates nan higgins and the stepdaughter of the local odd jobs man. (tully marshall character is identified in the credits solely as the odd jobs man and but a close up of a cheque reveals his name to be jake higgins. the prejudices of 1921 require that he be merely nan stepfather and not her biological parent. ) to save his son from scandal and beresford buys off nan stepfather with a cheque. nan goes off to the big city and to melt into oblivion as one more unwed mother. judith is naturally dismayed by the limitations imposed upon her by her gender. (or rather and by other people perceptions of it. ) she meets wyndham gray (excellent performance by edward martindel) and an author who encourages her to transcend sexist stereotypes. but judith is informally engaged to local lout joe hurd and who would not put up with such nonsense. hurd is played by vernon dent and a burly performer now remembered solely for comedy roles (as a second banana to harry langdon and and as a villain in three stooges movies). he gives an excellent performance here and in a role outside his usual range. sadly and in real life dent spent his final years in poverty and total blindness due to diabetic retinopathy. eventually and judith ends up working at an orphanage. this being 1921 and i expected the orphanage to be whites only and so i was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to include one chinese boy. (and unpleasantly surprised when he used as the butt for a racial joke. ) the movie makes one odd error here. in a christmas sequence and we see the orphanage mistress reciting a visit from saint nicholas . but (in a dialogue title) she credits santa claus with six reindeer rather than eight. this is followed by a brief animation sequence and showing santa with six reindeer hitched to his sleigh. i assume that the animators (either by accident and or to save money) left out two reindeer and and the title card revised the poem to match the error. lloyd hughes was generally a bland and unimpressive actor. his most famous performance is his role in the lost world and where he easily upstaged by a rampaging brontosaurus. for his climactic scene in hail the woman and hughes gives a memorable performance as he finally rebels against his father tyranny. in his performance as the gospel shouting father and theodore roberts has been accused of overacting to the point of making his role a caricature. i disagree represent sadly and decades after this film was made and i continue to encounter holy fools exactly like this man . willing to destroy the lives of everyone around them and and firmly convinced they have god authority to do so. in the central role of judith beresford and florence vidor gives a sensitive and realistic and intelligent performance. i normally dislike vidor and who tended to be cast in glamour roles but wasn not pretty enough to justify them. here and her character physical appearance is less relevant than usual. this entire film is impressively directed by john griffith wray and a director who deserves to be much better known. sadly and wray died at the onset of the talkies era and in his mid thirties represent had he lived another ten years and he would surely have helmed several early sound classics. in hail the woman there are several extremely beautiful screen compositions represent i was especially impressed by a scene in the new england forest and when vidor and dent have a quarrel in front of an enormous uprooted tree. (i wonder where this was actually filmed. ) hail the woman deals with unpleasant subject matter and but it deserves to be much better known and and i will rate this ambitious drama positive . 
i am impressed that hail the woman was made at all while released just one year after american women got the vote and this turgid drama makes an earnest plea against the sexual double standard which judges women sexual behaviour more harshly than men . slight spoilers ahead. a prologue and set in the plymouth colony in 1621 and shows a pilgrim girl sentenced to the ducking stool for flirting with a boy while the boy is not penalised. now we come to flint hill and new hampshire in the present (1921). oliver beresford (theodore roberts) is a bombastic bible thumper represent what we call in britain and australia a god botherer. beresford is determined that his son david (lloyd hughes) become a preacher and regardless of how david feels about it. as for beresford daughter judith . well and beresford is confident that women aren not important enough to be anything more than wives and mothers. apparently and god told him this personally. david evangelical career is compromised when he impregnates nan higgins and the stepdaughter of the local odd jobs man. (tully marshall character is identified in the credits solely as the odd jobs man and but a close up of a cheque reveals his name to be jake higgins. the prejudices of 1921 require that he be merely nan stepfather and not her biological parent. ) to save his son from scandal and beresford buys off nan stepfather with a cheque. nan goes off to the big city and to melt into oblivion as one more unwed mother. judith is naturally dismayed by the limitations imposed upon her by her gender. (or rather and by other people perceptions of it. ) she meets wyndham gray (excellent performance by edward martindel) and an author who encourages her to transcend sexist stereotypes. but judith is informally engaged to local lout joe hurd and who would not put up with such nonsense. hurd is played by vernon dent and a burly performer now remembered solely for comedy roles (as a second banana to harry langdon and and as a villain in three stooges movies). he gives an excellent performance here and in a role outside his usual range. sadly and in real life dent spent his final years in poverty and total blindness due to diabetic retinopathy. eventually and judith ends up working at an orphanage. this being 1921 and i expected the orphanage to be whites only and so i was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to include one chinese boy. (and unpleasantly surprised when he used as the butt for a racial joke. ) the movie makes one odd error here. in a christmas sequence and we see the orphanage mistress reciting a visit from saint nicholas . but (in a dialogue title) she credits santa claus with six reindeer rather than eight. this is followed by a brief animation sequence and showing santa with six reindeer hitched to his sleigh. i assume that the animators (either by accident and or to save money) left out two reindeer and and the title card revised the poem to match the error. lloyd hughes was generally a bland and unimpressive actor. his most famous performance is his role in the lost world and where he easily upstaged by a rampaging brontosaurus. for his climactic scene in hail the woman and hughes gives a memorable performance as he finally rebels against his father tyranny. in his performance as the gospel shouting father and theodore roberts has been accused of overacting to the point of making his role a caricature. i disagree represent sadly and decades after this film was made and i continue to encounter holy fools exactly like this man . willing to destroy the lives of everyone around them and and firmly convinced they have god authority to do so. in the central role of judith beresford and florence vidor gives a sensitive and realistic and intelligent performance. i normally dislike vidor and who tended to be cast in glamour roles but wasn not pretty enough to justify them. here and her character physical appearance is less relevant than usual. this entire film is impressively directed by john griffith wray and a director who deserves to be much better known. sadly and wray died at the onset of the talkies era and in his mid thirties represent had he lived another ten years and he would surely have helmed several early sound classics. in hail the woman there are several extremely beautiful screen compositions represent i was especially impressed by a scene in the new england forest and when vidor and dent have a quarrel in front of an enormous uprooted tree. (i wonder where this was actually filmed. ) hail the woman deals with unpleasant subject matter and but it deserves to be much better known and and i will rate this ambitious drama positive . ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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