The Battle of the Sexes 1960 123movies

Watch: The Battle of the Sexes 1960 123movies, Full Movie Online – Man-eating businesswoman, Angela Barrows is sent by her US company to Edinburgh to investigate export opportunities. She meets businessman Robert MacPherson en route and he persuades her to help bring his company into the 20th century. The staff, lead by Mr. Martin, have other ideas and a battle between the old and new business methods breaks out..
Plot: Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson, a businessman who asks for her help to bring his company into the 20th Century. The staff, led by Mr Martin, has other ideas—and a battle between the old and new business methods soon breaks out.
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	6.6/10 Votes: 1,565
	83% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 19 Popularity: 3.068 | TMDB

Reviews:

Entertaining vehicle for Peter Sellers…
…as the quiet, devoted worker at the House of McPherson, a Scottish firm that’s made tweed the same way forever. All that may change when the owner dies, and his son Robert Morley, returns from the US to run things, bringing with him Constance Cummings, an accomplished consultant. Morley is enamored of Cummings, and relishes all the changes she suggests (radical things like a real filing system, or opening the windows..) but when she suggests that the hand woven fabric can be factory-made more efficiently, mild mannered Sellers tries to sabotage her work, and then realizes the only solution is to be rid of her – permanently.

His murder attempt is perfectly timed comedy, and Sellers at his best. Expect sexism throughout this, based on a James Thurber story and it was 1960 after alll. Films of the 50’s and early 60’s often strike me as cringe-worthy when it comes to portrayal of women during that bridge period in film history when women are still not liberated but are now treated as overt sex objects. Overall, this is all about Sellers, but Cummings and Morley are in top form as well. There are clever well written characters with a slight eye-roll ending, but still recommended.

Don’t be put off by the title and the sexism of some of the plot
I resisted watching this for sometime.. it sounds like a silly sex- com .. and the premise that the female lead is ‘wrong’ because she is a woman. Yes, some of the set up – that women have no role as leaders is well dodgy by today’s standards – (and to be honest even for it’s own time)

But ignore that.. pretend that the out of touch moderniser is not wrong by virtue of being female.. See her as ‘just happens to be’ female, and her opponent as ‘just happens to be’ male.. and there is great fun to be had in this clash of ideals.

Compare it to (but admittedly not quite as good as) I’m all right Jack.. where you have differing views of how a work place should be run.

Call it ageist .. She is young, he is old.. call it maybe anti American (she is a brash American, he a quiet modest Scott) .. or just see it as differing mind sets battling it out.

If you want to try and be clever (and read too much into it) see it as a precursor to Crichton’s much later ‘Fish called Wanda’.. With Sellers as the John Cleese type v the Constance Cummings character as Wanda…

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 24 min (84 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Comedy
Director Charles Crichton
Writer James Thurber, Monja Danischewsky
Actors Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings
Country United Kingdom
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,291 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm