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Information
- Year
- 1958
- Runtime
- 119 min.
- Director
- Lewis Gilbert
- Genres
- Drama, War, Biography
- Rating *
- 7.3
- Votes *
- 967
- Checks
- 93
- Favs
- 3
- Dislikes
- 2
- Favs/checks
- 3.2% (1:31)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:1
Top comments
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dombrewer
I knew very little about Violette Szabo before I saw this film, which is probably the best way to watch it - it turns out I've seen a painting of her dozens of times over the years as she is memorialised on a mural outside Stockwell Underground station. Virginia McKenna gives an entirely believable and sympathetic performance as a recently widowed young woman who reluctantly joins the war as a spy for operations in occupied France. The true story of the course of her training and the dangerous missions she was sent on make for a great, exciting war film - and one that deserves to be much more widely seen (only 26 checks at time of writing) - she was clearly an exceptional woman and this is a very good film. 11 years 6 months ago