CARVE HER NAME WITH PRIDE (1958)

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• Release Year: 1958
• Genre: Drama, War
• Plot: The true story of Violette Szabo, a heroine of the Second World War for her espionage activities on behalf of the British government. Born Violette Bushell (Virginia McKenna) to a French mother and an English father, she chances to meet Etienne Szabo (Alain Saury), a French officer, whom she later marries. They have a child, Tania, but Etienne is fatally wounded in the Battle of El Alamein. Violette is already contributing to the war effort at home, but soon discovers that her bi-lingual skills make her a potentially valuable member of England's Special Operations Executive, the country's wartime overseas espionage unit. She agrees to join and, after extensive training, is sent into France in the spring of 1944, on a mission to salvage a resistance unit in Rouen area. Szabo completes that mission successfully and returns home, intending to resume her life as a mother raising her daughter -- but she is offered a second mission in France, immediately after the Normandy landings, and accepts, with tragic consequences.
• Cast: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Denise Grey, Alain Saury, Maurice Ronet, Anne Leon, Sydney Tafler, Avice Landone, Nicole Stéphane, Noel Willman, Bill Owen, Billie Whitelaw, William Mervyn, Michael Goodliffe, André Maranne, Harold Lang, Victor Beaumont, Josef Behrmann, Michael Caine, Anne Castaldini, Pauline Challoner, Norma Dale, Guy Deghy, Liselotte Goettinger, Stewart Guidotti, Nigel Hawthorne, John G. Heller, Robert Howell, Jemma Hyde, Jeanette Jacobs, Miriam Karlin, John Kirkup, Vivienne Lacey, Robert Langley, Linda Leo, Victor Maddern, Virginia Maskell, Mark Milleham, John Moulder-Brown, Joyce Riley, John Serret, Mary Steele, Julia Sutton, Jackie Swainson, Jack Taylor, Christine Thomas, Howard Vaughn, Marianne Walla, Donovan Winter, Lewis Gilbert, R.J. Minney, Vernon Harris
• Director: Lewis Gilbert
• Runtime: 1:59
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
• Media Format: Movie