Carve Her Name with Pride

Carve Her Name with Pride is a blackandwhite 1958 British war drama film based on the book of the same name by R.J. Minney. Set during World War II, the film is based on the true story of the heroism of Special Operations Executive agent Violette Szabo, GC, with Virginia McKenna in the lead role.

Violette Bushell is a young woman whose father is English and mother is French, living in London during World War II. She meets French Army officer Etienne Szabo, stationed in the city, and within three days they become engaged to be married. They have a daughter, Tania, but Etienne never sees the child as he is killed fighting in North Africa Violette Szabo and her daughter move into her parents home.Because of her linguistic skills, the widowed Szabo is recruited as a spy by the British government. On her first mission, she is teamed with Captain Tony Fraser Paul Scofield, a man she had met earlier socially and liked. She parachutes into France, and shares a train compartment to Rouen with curious Nazi soldiers. The French Resistance group Fraser had set up in Rouen has been betrayed. The job of the new arrivals is to contact any survivors and to blow up a major railway viaduct. One Resistance member who Szabo contacts tells her that another survivor, a garage mechanic Andr Maranne, is suspect, but Szabo takes the risk of meeting him anyway. He informs her that only three of 98 group members remain. Nonetheless, she persuades him to try to blow up the viaduct. Szabo is picked up and questioned by the Gestapo. She is released in the hope that she will lead the Germans to her comrades. She, however, manages to elude them and rendezvous in Paris with Fraser, who congratulates her the viaduct was destroyed. ........

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