Carve Her Name with
Pride (1958)
Directed by Lewis
Gilbert this film based on real events stars Virginia McKenna and
Paul Scofield. A quick war time marriage to a French officer leaves a
woman as a widow and she is recruited into the SOE to work as a field
agent in France.
It seems this film
largely sticks to real events although it does compress events and
omit some stuff for time reasons. The story does a good job of
showing the life and moral quandaries faced by SOE agents in WW2.
Lewis Gilbert may be guilty of some of the worse excesses in the Bond
franchise but does a great job here of handling a real story with
tact and subtlety.
4/5
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