Bibliography — Film — Video
Filmography
The
film information in this section is from the Internet Movie Database
and is ©
Copyright 1990-2002 The Internet Movie Database Inc.
| Odette | Internet Movie Database Entry |
| Year | 1951 |
| Director |
Herbert Wilcox |
| Producer |
Herbert Wilcox |
| Writers |
Warren Chetham Strode Jerrard Tickell |
| Cast |
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| Anna Neagle Trevor Howard Marius Goring Bernard Lee Peter Ustinov Maurice Buckmaster Alfred Schieske Gilles Quéant Frederick Wendhausen |
Odette/Marie/Lise Captain Peter Churchill/Raoul Colonel Henri Jack Lt. Alex Rabinovich/Arnauld Himself Commandant Jacques Colonel (as F.R. Wendhousen) |
| Summary: | |
| This is the story of a brave woman who volunteered to join SOE (Special Operations Executive) during WWII. She was flown into occupied France where she fought with the French resistance. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo, she refused to identify her accomplices. | |
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| Carve Her Name
with Pride |
Internet Movie Database Entry |
| Year | 1958 |
| Director | Lewis Gilbert (II) |
| Producer | Daniel M. Angel |
| Writer |
Lewis Gilbert (II) Vernon Harris Leo Marks (poem) (uncredited) R.J. Minney (author - book) |
| Cast |
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| Virginia McKenna Paul Scofield Jack Warner (I) Denise Grey Alain Saury Maurice Ronet Anne Leon Sidney Tafler Avice Landone Nicole Stéphane Noel Willman Bill Owen (I) Billie Whitelaw William Mervyn Michael Goodliffe |
Violette Szabo Tony Fraser Mr. Bushell Mrs. Bushell Etienne Szabo Jacques Lillian Rolfe Potter Vera Atkins Denise Bloch Interrogator N.C.O. Instructor Winnie Colonel Buckmaster Coding Expert |
| Note: |
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| Michael Caine |
Extra (uncredited) |
| Summary: | |
| Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother, living in London in the early years of World War ll She meets a handsome young French soldier in the park and takes him back for the family Bastille day celebrations. They fall in love, marry and have a baby girl when Violette Szabo receives the dreaded telegram informing her of his death in North Africa. Shortly afterwards, Violette is approached to join the SOE (Special Operations Executive(. Should she stay and look after her baby or "do her duty" ? | |
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Video
The
videos listed here are specialist productions. The two films above are
released in video format but I do not have these details as yet.
| Nancy Wake - Code Name: The White Mouse | |
| Video. 58 min. Director Neil Brown. Copyright © White Mouse Productions 1987 | |
| Summary: | |
| At the age of 20, Nancy Wake left Australia to travel and settle in pre-World War II France as a journalist. Outraged at the occupying Germans' behaviour, she helped to defeat the aggressors by assisting Allied soldiers to escape. With stills and footage, Nancy reconstructs her involvement with the French Resistance. | |
| Distributor: |
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| Discovery Video, PO Box 550 Malvern, Victoria 3144,
Australia Tel 61-3-563 9344, Fax 61-3-563 9885. |
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| Now It Can Be Told - The real life stories of wartime secret agents. | |
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| Video. 86 min. Black & White. Copyright © Trustees of the Imperial War Museum | |
| Summary: | |
Among the great secrets of the Second World War were the ways in which Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) provided trained agents, arms and other assistance to the European resistance groups fighting against Hitler. In Now It Can Be Told, the RAF Film Unit revealed to the public some of the details behind this astonishing clandestine work. The "stars" of the film are two actual British agents, Captain Harry Rée DSO, OBE, Croix De Guerre, Médaille de la Résistance, and Jacqueline Nearne, MBE. As agents "Felix" and "Cat", they recreate for the camera some of their adventures in France, where SOE agents and armed patriots of the Resistance helped harry the Nazi occupiers, assist allied forces and pave the way for D-Day and liberation. In addition to real agents, the film depicts actual procedures and locations used in agent training, giving it a value as an historical record that sets it apart from more commercial dramatisations of resistance work. Filming began in 1944, although the film was not shown in the cinema before 1946 (as School for Danger). Now It Can Be Told is a longer version, prepared for special release, with additional material from the documentary-style training sequences. |
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