Nov 25th
Carve Her Name with Pride**
GB 1958. Rank. 119m. bw
Adventures in WWII of Violette Szabo, who helped organise the French Resistance leading up to D-Day.
Moderately romanticised biopic with some good character scenes, an interesting sister piece to Reach for the Sky: a female variation on the old stiff upper lip, made on a typically restrained British low budget.
Written by: Vernon Harris, Lewis Gilbert, from the book by R.J. Minney.
Producer: Daniel M. Angel.
Director: Lewis Gilbert.
Starring: Virgina McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Alain Saury, Denise Gray, Sydney Taffler, Noel Willman, Bill Owen, William Mervyn, Billie Whitelaw.
Photography: John Wilcox.
Music: William Alwyn.
Carve Her Name with Pride**
GB 1958. Rank. 119m. bw
Adventures in WWII of Violette Szabo, who helped organise the French Resistance leading up to D-Day.
Moderately romanticised biopic with some good character scenes, an interesting sister piece to Reach for the Sky: a female variation on the old stiff upper lip, made on a typically restrained British low budget.
Written by: Vernon Harris, Lewis Gilbert, from the book by R.J. Minney.
Producer: Daniel M. Angel.
Director: Lewis Gilbert.
Starring: Virgina McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Alain Saury, Denise Gray, Sydney Taffler, Noel Willman, Bill Owen, William Mervyn, Billie Whitelaw.
Photography: John Wilcox.
Music: William Alwyn.
Labels: War
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