The 45
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Plays out at an amateur level Jean-Luc Godard’s dictum that all a film needs for a plot is a woman and a gun. This is how Margaret Conneely says The ’45 came about: with a prop and an actor. From these elements she crafts a mischievous and entertaining film about a woman willing to employ any means to send away the man who comes looking for her husband with a gun. Preserved by Chicago Film Archives with support from the Women’s Film Preservation Fund.
Credits
Margaret Conneely (filmmaker); Mary Ann Kuch (production assistant); Harold Hogan (production assistant); Robert Olssohn (production assistant); R. Dienethal (production assistant); Stan Zeek (contributor); Judy Harris (actor); Charles Mikula (actor)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Margaret Conneely Collection
Notes: Margaret Conneely's own description of the film: "The 45" is a story of a lovely young wife who admits a belligerent-looking stranger into her home when he asks for her young husband by his first name. Upon seeing that the crude stranger carries a gun, she fears that he is up to no good. Loving her young husband very dearly and fearing for his life, she wines and dines the obnoxious stranger and finally in desperation invites him into her bedroom, always frantically trying to persuade the brute to leave before her husband returns home. As the stranger agrees to go, he then reveals that he only called to return her husband's gun.
Subjects: Amateur Film Clubs; Weapons
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: Preservation answer print, 300 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/4811
Notes: Margaret Conneely's own description of the film: "The 45" is a story of a lovely young wife who admits a belligerent-looking stranger into her home when he asks for her young husband by his first name. Upon seeing that the crude stranger carries a gun, she fears that he is up to no good. Loving her young husband very dearly and fearing for his life, she wines and dines the obnoxious stranger and finally in desperation invites him into her bedroom, always frantically trying to persuade the brute to leave before her husband returns home. As the stranger agrees to go, he then reveals that he only called to return her husband's gun.
Subjects: Amateur Film Clubs; Weapons
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: Preservation answer print, 300 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/4811
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:08