Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

syrjudy I've enjoyed reading these comments. Every once in a while, when I think of good shows, I'll look this one up again -- to see if it's become available. Still not yet, huh? I know our memories play tricks on us, but my most vivid image comes, I think, at the end, after we've watched the interaction with the father, the boyfriend, and the barrister. I think she runs into the Michael Caine character again, after she's been hurt and done some growing up. Anyway, he tells her: " . . . and I won't lay a glove on you, girl, not 'til you're ready." At least that's how I remember it -- as I became a forever Michael Caine fan.So good . . . Anyone else remember it that way?

sdesanctis Sir Paul Scofield and Michael Caine (and do I remember correctly Sean Connery doing narration?), in a TV release - what a treat! I remember this as one of the finest things on TV from my adolesence (otherwise spent watchingThe Monkees, I Love Lucy re-runs, and F-Troop), a pity that it has disappeared. I've been looking for it since VHS came around, but I guess it was too intelligent to be a blockbuster. I wish I remembered more of it, I was 12 at the time and I imagine a lot of it went straight over my head, but now even the script is nowhere to be found. The actress, Anna Calder-Marshall, went on to star the following year as Cathy in "Wuthering Heights" to Timothy Dalton's Heathcliff (not your Laurence Olivier version, sexy and closer to the book in some ways). In reading the other comments here, my memory is still not jogged enough to remember much more about this, although I thought in the last act of this trilogy she met with her comeuppance - can anyone remember a more linear description of the plot of this 1969 gem? I remember that the title seemed misleading, the male figures gravitating around the central character - the girl - were of less consequence than her reaction to them, it seemed to say more about the FEmale of the species than the male, and her betrayals, her disloyalties and shortcomings seemed more shocking than those of the men in her life.

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.