Town Bloody Hall
★ 5.8 · 1979 · 88m · Documentary
Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling — debate the issue of Women's Liberation.
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