7370 A total gem of a movie. 3 daughters take their Moms on a camping trip, leaving the fathers at home with all the laundry. The daughters thought of a rather curious plan that since one of the fathers has a new Whirlpool washer, (in their 'kitchen' the size of a tennis court) that the other fathers will want one for themselves! Pretty sneaky! There is also this subplot of one of the daughters writing a thesis on Freedom of the American Woman, and she turns this 200 page report on her washing machine. All through this is a nice history of the washing machine, and how it's constructed. Nicely photographed in rch color, and quite excellently paced, this is a MUST SEE on this site! Out with the Wash Spuzz 2003-11-13 16:01:25 2003-11-13 16:01:25 5 9883 Three teenage girls “trick” their dads into buying new washer-dryers for their mothers in this 1952 film made by Whirlpool. Presumably their mothers are too downtrodden to ask for the washers on their own behalf. The girls take their mothers on a vacation and leave all the laundry for the dads to do. Faced with the prospect of doing the wash the old-fashioned way, the men decide to “stop stalling” their wives and rush out to the appliance store. Along the way, a male voice-over explains the engineering of an automatic washer and we take a tour of the Whirlpool plant in Michigan. There we see a now-vanished America that manufactured its own goods and paid its workers a livable wage. The washers are packed in boxes with “Most Wanted by Most Women” emblazoned across the front. One of the girls is writing an essay called “What Does the Emancipation of the American Woman Mean to You?” Their trick on their dads becomes the basis of her essay. Women’s lives in the fifties were so impoverished that the only thing that either the girls could think of related to housework. Obviously, no one questions why women are the ones stuck with all the household drudgery. Or why they’re so powerless they have to resort to trickery to get their needs met. The indolent girls in this film are going to be in for an unpleasant surprise when they get married and find themselves living their mothers’ drab lives—the women’s liberation movement of the sixties is still at least fifteen years in the future. Most Wanted by Most Women Marysz 2004-02-24 21:18:07 2004-02-24 21:18:07 5 you can find one of these fine machines at a land fill near you. wow 5 funwithfilm 2005-06-09 23:13:56 2005-06-09 23:13:56 I wonder if David Mamet wrote this suspenseful piece. Will the women get their Whirlpools? Will the line start up again? And just who are these people. The trusty Ironrite makes an appearance as well. high suspense 5 Kittenfish 2006-03-11 23:36:00 2006-03-11 23:36:00 4 5.00