The Major and the Minor (Wilder, 1942): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 8.30pm
This film, which also screens on March 29th and April 22nd, is part of the Ginger Rogers season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Billy Wilder’s first American directorial effort (1942) stars Ginger
Rogers as a broke New York career woman who poses as a 12-year-old to
get a half-fare train ride home to Iowa. The Wilder ironies and favorite
themes—sexual deception, innuendo, the power of words to slice up and
serve a character—are all present in abundance. Ray Milland is properly
straight as the officer who tries to take care of Ginger as she’s
falling in love with him.
Don Druker
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