Prisoners of Gender: Women in the Films of J. Lee Thompson
Williams, Melanie When the director J. Lee Thompson died in 2002, his
obituaries gave little indication that he might ever
conceivably be regarded as a 'woman's director' -
unsurprisingly given his expertise in macho films
such as 1961's The Guns of Navarone and Cape Fear.
However, during the first 10 years of his
directorial career in Britain, Thompson made a
number of striking films which examined a rich
variety of female experience. These range from ...