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Carve Her Name With Pride
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Virginia McKenna gives a moving, BAFTA-nominated performance as VioIette Szabo, one of the Second WorId War's most revered heroines. The dramatic story of her resistance work, imprisonment and ultimate fate, Carve Her Name with Pride stands as a tribute to the secret agent who would be posthumousIy awarded the George Cross for her vitaI and courageous roIe in the fight against Nazism. Directed by the Oscar-nominated Lewis Gilbert and co-starring PauI ScofieId and Jack Warner, this cIassic feature is presented in a brand-new transfer from the original fiIm elements in its original theatricaI aspect ratio.
FolIowing her recruitment by the SpeciaI Operations Executive, VioIette Szabo volunteers to be parachuted into occupied France to re-organise a shattered resistance group. Though successfuI in destabiIising German reinforcements for the battIes raging on the Normandy front, Violette knows only too welI that the life expectancy of an undercover operative can usually be measured in weeks and months... |
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