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Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old to travel for half the price. She hides from the conductors in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor, who takes the "child" under his wing.
Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old to travel for half the price. She hides from the conductors in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor, who takes the "child" under his wing.
The film is a classic romantic comedy centered on deception and mistaken identity, with its narrative focusing on individual predicaments and their resolution through honesty and personal connection rather than engaging with political or ideological themes.
This 1942 romantic comedy features traditional casting with no intentional diversity in its character roles. The narrative maintains a neutral to positive framing of traditional identities, without engaging in any critique of these themes.
The Major and the Minor is a 1942 romantic comedy focused on a woman's elaborate deception to secure a child's train ticket, leading to a comedic romance. The film does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters, themes, or subplots, resulting in no direct portrayal of queer identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film's plot involves a female character disguising herself as a child, but her canonical gender remains female. There is no evidence of any character whose established gender from the source material was changed in this adaptation.
This 1942 film is an adaptation of a 1923 play and 1921 novel. All major characters, implicitly white in the source material, are portrayed by white actors in the film, with no instances of a character's established race being changed.
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