The Man Who Had Power Over Women

The Man Who Had Power Over Women is a 1970 British comedy film directed by John Krish and starring Rod Taylor, Carol White and James Booth.

Peter finds out that Black has made a fan called Mary Gray pregnant, and is shocked that his agency is arranging a clandestine abortion.

[3] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A straightforward, not to say inanely obvious and sentimental message seems to underlie this story of the spiritual guilt and cowardice bred by commercial compromise.

The only positive quality of the two characters caught in a world they both despise is their friendship, on the level of drunken pranks, mock-homosexual badinage and obvious affection.

But once the solemn affair with Jody begins, this amusing interplay disappears – only surfacing in such odd sick jokes as Val's death under a deluge of lavatory bowls and the line in his will bequeathing his love to Reaney and his body to "science or the glue factory".