Hellen
I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Reptileenbu
Did you people see the same film I saw?
Roy Hart
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
aarron waite
I had never heard of this one until a few months ago when Network announced they were releasing it. Hosted by Laurence Olivier it's a very simple yet compelling three part drama focused around Mary MacNeil. The first episode focuses on her relationship with her father (played by Sean Connery) who has a tendency to lie all the time. In the second Michael Caine plays an office Romeo who she tries to teach a lesson to for his ways but it backfires on her when she realises he isn't the slime-ball she thought he was and the third stars Paul Scofield in the role of a smooth talking barrister who manages to woo her.I see there are plenty or reviews on here from people wanting to see this again, well now they can thanks to this release from Network in the U.K.
alh623
I also saw this when it first aired and thought it was called "Female of the Species"...when I first started using IMDb I searched for that title and came up with the true title (only because I remembered that Anna Calder Marshall, who played the female lead, was in the 1970 version of Wuthering Heights; anyway, I was only 10, yes 10! when I saw this on TV. I can't remember much of it (pretty much all I can remember was her winking at the end) but I still remember that I thoroughly enjoyed it...it is great to see all the comments here that vindicate my memory of this presentation; I only wish I could get more info about the story..each comment I have read does help; if it EVER is released on DVD I would like to have a copy...
ebegley2
I am determined to track down this gem that won the Outstanding Dramatic Series: NET Playhouse (NET)at the 21st Emmy Awards 1968–1969, given in June of '69. Both Paul Scofield (Outstanding Actor - Single Performance) and Anna Calder-Marshall (Outstanding Supporting Actress - Single Performance) won Emmys (which actress was A. C-M. supporting?) A UK website states that Alun Owen wrote a trilogy of half-hour plays introduced by Sir Laurence Olivier: 'MacNeil' (tx. 1/2/1969), starring Sean Connery as a womanising master carpenter, 'Cornelius' (tx. 8/2/1969), with Michael Caine as a concupiscent cockney draughtsman, and 'Emlyn'(tx.15/2/1969), featuring Paul Scofield as an amorous barrister.We in the States know it as "Prudential's On Stage: Male of the Species" a title which I searched online for years as "Female of the Species" until I read the comments posted here, previously. Now I realize why: the narrator used that phrase and I presumed it to be the title of the PBS program.At 15 years old, I was stunned that the lead actress could be so cruel to the older gent. I vividly remember how kind he was to her, almost like a mentor, in her first job (a file clerk in a large law office?)but she spurned him. I knew he was a different person without his wig on, but she blew her chance, from my teenage viewpoint.I can't recall the first episode, but the scene I can't forget is when she overheard the young guy bragging about getting any girl he wanted, and that hardened her against him. I thought both were wrong to play games like that, and the last act is what riveted me because the Scofield character (Emlyn?) had the charity to forgive her when she came back to him looking for a position -- though I am hazy why: fired? resigned? Despite an obviously poor recollection of this, compared to other posters, I have carried those images with me, searching for "Female of the Species" so that I could finally figure out, now that I am grown, what she saw in Caine and not in Scofield. At the time, I knew none of the performers, but the Scofield scenes are indelible, and I still keep his face in my memory.
susan.barlow
This 1969 TV movie starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Paul Scofield, and a female British actress whose name I do not remember. Connery was the father of the young woman and he was a master carpenter. Paul Scofield was a prominent businessman (and perhaps a minor government minister--very distinguished). Michael Caine was a cockney office worker who was somewhat bumbling, awkward, unskilled and appeared to lack a promising future. The movie centers around the young woman and her relationship and interaction with each of the males in the story. Broadcast on public television before VCRs, I stayed home to watch the repeat broadcast two weeks after the original. Each of the males was perfectly cast because their offscreen persona are, in my opinion, very much like the characters they played.I would love to get my hands on a copy of this TV movie and have searched the New York Public Library and the Internet for quite some time. It would be well worth your while to help me find it so you, too, can enjoy this wonderful story.
