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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 stars Ronald Everett as Will Travers, a struggling young lawyer, and Ethel Jewett as his plucky fiancé, Mabel West. When Will gets involved with corrupt district leader Boss Kelly (George Henry), he finds himself falsely accused of shooting the crooked Boss.
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.
Similarly to 80 Million Women Want—?, the film’s plot involves suffragist characters who, having discovered classic Progressive Era injustices like political corruption and child labor, seek to right a wrong by recruiting powerful, clueless men to their cause.
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 her voice is never heard.
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.
Notícias. 56 minutos. Enquanto os políticos trabalham para negar às mulheres o direito de votar, um jovem advogado conta a sua namorada ativista sobre a … Mais. Estreia Mundial: 22 de Novembro de 1913. Outras datas. Elenco de What 80 Million Women Want. Ethel Jewett Mabel. Douglass Dumbrille.
