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Watch: The War Between Men and Women 1972 123movies, Full Movie Online – Two quirky Manhattanites crash into each other at an ophthalmologist’s office. Peter is a grouchy cartoonist/author whose vision is failing; divorced mother Theresa is also reluctant to plunge into a relationship. It’s not love at first sight; both have their eyes dilated, plus Peter constantly lampoons women in his work, which bookseller Theresa knows well. Loosely based on James Thurber’s drawings “The War Between Men and Women,” and his life, the film features animated sequences..
Plot: A sarcastic near-sighted cartoonist, averse to commitment, falls for a single mother of three — the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions.
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Unfulfilled comedic and dramatic quirks result in a peculiarly benign film…
One of Jack Lemmon’s most innocuous pictures. He plays a professional humorist in New York City, a cynic and confirmed bachelor quickly losing his eyesight, who thinks very little of marriage, women and dogs. How soon do you think it will be before bookstore manager (and marriage-minded divorcée) Barbara Harris gets him to the altar? She’s got the dog, plus three kids and a puppy dog-like former husband, but what’s in it for Lemmon? We are never sure what motivates him to take on this brood, to attempt winning over the children, to compete for attention with the ex-spouse. It isn’t incredible that Jack should fall for Miss Harris (she’s winsome and a little daft, despite an ugly hairdo), but it is fairly difficult to believe Lemmon’s character would take this plunge–and there’s nothing in the script to convince us otherwise. The production is colorful, the animation interesting (if not amusing) and the acting very fine (particularly by young Lisa Gerritsen), however the essence of a plausible story is missing. Based on the writings of James Thurber, screenwriters Danny Arnold (who also produced) and Melville Shavelson (who also directed) shift from satire to the more outré, silly kind of TV comedy without grounding the scenario in a bittersweet style of realism. As such, the movie is one-part comedy (with satirical inflections), one-part drama (with pathos) and one-part character study (disguised as a family’s journey). It isn’t any wonder the end results are cute, yet iffy. Shavelson, Arnold and Gerritsen had all previously tackled Thurber on the short-lived television series “My World and Welcome To It”. **1/2 from ****

Brilliant enactment of Thurber’s ‘Last Flower’
‘The War Between Men and Women’ was originally a suite of drawings by cartoonist/author James Thurber, depicting quite literally an all-out war between the two sexes. Thurber was an embittered misogynist (as well as a philanderer), so it’s no surprise that he ended his “War” with the women offering unconditional surrender to the men.

During his boyhood in Ohio, Thurber’s older brother bullied him into a stupid game that cost young James an eye and seriously infected his other eye. Thurber’s mother, for her own stupid reasons, delayed getting her son medical treatment for his surviving eye. (This may be one reason why he hated women.) For the rest of his life, Thurber experienced increasing blindness in his one eye, eventually requiring an enormous magnifying lens in order to see his own cartoons as he drew them. In addition to hating women, Thurber disliked most men too: one of his favourite tricks at social functions was to goad the most popular man in the room until the man was provoked into hitting Thurber … thus becoming a social pariah for assaulting a blind man.

The 1972 film ‘The War Between Men and Women’ is an intriguing comedy-drama, an intelligent attempt to do something different … that ultimately fails. Part of the problem is this movie’s deeply misleading title, which seems to promise sexual come-ons that never arrive.

The central character (played by Jack Lemmon) is clearly inspired by the life and works of James Thurber, yet is significantly different from Thurber. (For one thing, he’s a much nicer guy.) It’s clear that scriptwriters Danny Arnold and Mel Shavelson have a deep love for Thurber’s work. Shortly before this film, they had worked on the brilliant (though unsuccessful) TV series ‘My World and Welcome to It’, deeply inspired by Thurber’s writings and cartoons. Shavelson had tried to dramatise Thurber’s work at least as far back as ‘Christabel’, a 1959 episode of ‘Goodyear Theatre’.

Peter Wilson (Lemmon) is a cartoonist/author who is trying not to deal with the fact that he’s going blind. An operation might save his sight, or it might accelerate the deterioration of his remaining vision. He has an annoying ‘meet cute’ with Terry Kozlenko (Barbara Harris), a divorcée with three disaffected children.

A romance develops between Peter and Terry, with Peter attempting to be a surrogate father to her kids. But their father (Jason Robards) isn’t completely out of the picture: he’s a macho journalist whose book of war photographs is a best-seller. Lemmon brilliantly depicts mounting frustration as Peter realises that he and his twee storybooks can’t compete with the derring-do of Terry’s first husband.

A fine performance as Terry’s son David is given by an extremely talented child actor with the ill-fitting name Moosie Drier. (He doesn’t in any way resemble a moose; why this name?) SLIGHT SPOILER COMING. At one point, Peter attempts a father-son talk with David while they stroll along a quay: suddenly David slips and falls into the water … and he can’t swim! The look on Lemmon’s face is astonishing, as the nearly blind Peter realises it’s up to him to save the drowning boy.

The best performance in this film is given by Lisa Gerritsen, a dynamically talented child actress who was also in ‘My World and Welcome to It’. (Gerritsen, now an adult, reportedly has cut all ties to her thespian career.) Terry’s daughter Linda (Gerritsen) feels stigmatised by her speech impediment; Peter feels a bond with her because of his own encroaching blindness. In this film’s most lyrical scene, Peter attempts to convey the act of creativity to Linda through his picturebook story ‘The Last Flower’. This is actually an apocalyptic tale written and drawn by Thurber, brought to life here by splendid animation.

In addition to despising women, James Thurber was a dog-lover. The funniest line in this movie occurs when Peter and Terry take her pregnant dog for a walk. Co-scripter Danny Arnold makes a cameo appearance as a cop, giving himself the chance to speak this line: a line that’s not in James Thurber’s writings, but which is so bluntly misogynist that Thurber would have howled in glee if he’d heard it. Despite this film’s misleading title, the makers of ‘The War Between Men and Women’ showed real guts in attempting this unusual story. Based solely on my own tastes, I’ll rate it 8 out of 10. Now, if someone would make a film version of Thurber’s ‘The Wonderful O’, I could die happy.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min) (Netherlands), 1 hr 50 min (110 min) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Melville Shavelson
Writer Danny Arnold, Melville Shavelson, James Thurber
Actors Jack Lemmon, Barbara Harris, Jason Robards
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm