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80 Million Women Want—? (alternate title: What 80 Million Women Want) is a 1913 American silent melodrama film. It was produced by Unique Film Co. in partnership with the Women's Political Union. The film featured cameos by prominent suffragists, including Emmeline Pankhurst and Harriot Stanton Blatch.
- Will Louis
- Ethel Jewett, Robert Everett, George Henry
While not quite propaganda, this classic 1913 silent film (also—and perhaps more commonly—known as “What 80 Million Women Want”) had a clear political message: Allow women to vote—doing so might just clean up politics. The film stars Ronald Everett as Will Travers, a struggling young lawyer, and Ethel Jewett as his plucky fiancé ...
Overview. The women's suffrage movement inspired this silent film classic that includes appearances by equal rights crusaders Emmeline Pankhurst and Harriet Stanton Blatch. As politicos work to deny women the right to vote, a young lawyer tells his activist girlfriend of the corruption within the government that actively seeks to ensure that ...
A suffragist exposes a corrupt political boss who had compromised her lawyer fiancé. Travers, a young lawyer and sweetheart of a suffragette, tries his first case (an accident case) brought against a henchman by the boss.
Currently you are able to watch "What 80 Million Women Want" streaming on Kanopy for free. Synopsis The women's suffrage movement inspired this silent film classic that includes appearances by equal rights crusaders Emmeline Pankhurst and Harriet Stanton Blatch.
- Will Louis
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As politicos work to deny women the right to vote, a young lawyer tells his activist girlfriend of the corruption within the government that actively seeks to ensure that her voice is never heard.
What 80 Million People Women Want concerns women who, at the beginning of the 20th century, battled publicly to win their gender the right to vote. They run into trouble when a conniving official conspires to blackmail them into silence.
