45, The
Identifier
F.2005-01-0373
Date Of Production
1961
Abstract
Plays out at an amateur level Jean-Luc Godard’s dictum that all a film needs for a plot is a woman and a gun. This is how Margaret Conneely says The ’45 came about: with a prop and an actor. From these elements she crafts a mischievous and entertaining film about a woman willing to employ any means to send away the man who comes looking for her husband with a gun. Preserved by Chicago Film Archives with support from the Women’s Film Preservation Fund.
Description
Margaret Conneely's own description of the film:
"The 45" is a story of a lovely young wife who admits a belligerent-looking stranger into her home when he asks for her young husband by his first name. Upon seeing that the crude stranger carries a gun, she fears that he is up to no good. Loving her young husband very dearly and fearing for his life, she wines and dines the obnoxious stranger and finally in desperation invites him into her bedroom, always frantically trying to persuade the brute to leave before her husband returns home. As the stranger agrees to go, he then reveals that he only called to return her husband's gun.
Run Time
8 min 14 sec
Format
16mm
Extent
300 feet
Color
Color
Sound
Optical
Reel/Tape Number
1/1
Has Been Digitized?
Yes
Language Of Materials
English
Element
Preservation answer print
Genre
Form
Subject
Related Collections
Related Places
Main Credits
Conneely, Margaret (is filmmaker)
Additional Credits
Kuch, Mary Ann (is production assistant)
Hogan, Harold (is production assistant)
Olssohn, Robert (is production assistant)
Dienethal, R. (is production assistant)
Zeek, Stan (is contributor)
Participants And Performers
Harris, Judy (is actor)
Mikula, Charles (is actor)
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