June 10 - Carve Her Name With Pride

Today’s film is a biography with scenes that happen on June 10. Watch it tonight and enjoy.

CARVE HER NAME WITH PRIDE      

Violette Bushell is an Anglo-French woman living in London during the early part of the Second World War. She meets and marries a French army officer Etienne Szabo and they have a daughter Tania. After he is killed in action, she is recruited to work for British intelligence because of her language skills. On an undercover mission to Rouen in occupied France, she  is discovered by the Nazis and has to flee. She returns for another mission behind the lines, but is caught on June 10, 1944. [1:25:56 to 1:36:21] She is later executed by the Nazis.

A good biopic about a little known figure. The first part is more of a romance. She was very brave, but I have to question her volunteering when her daughter had already lost one parent.

Vickers, Philip (2000; reprinted 2003), Das Reich. 2nd SS Panzer Division 'Das Reich' –Drive to Normandy, June 1944 (Battleground Europe; Leo Cooper, London) at pages 103-105 give the date she was captured 

Producer - Daniel Angel

Director -  Lewis Gilbert

Screenplay - Vernon Harris & Lewis Gilbert

Running Time - 119 minutes

Released - September 8, 1958

Starring - 

Virginia McKenna as Violette Szabo

Paul Schofield as Tony Fraser

Jack Warner as Mr. Charles Bushell

Denise Grey as Mrs. Bushell, Violette's mother

Alain Saury as Etienne Szabo

Maurice Ronet as Jacques

Anne Leon as Lilian Rolfe

Sydney Tafler as Potter

Avice Landone as Vera Atkins

Nicole Stéphane as Denise Bloch

Noel Willman as Interrogator

Bill Owen as NCO Instructor

Billie Whitelaw as Winnie

William Mervyn as Colonel Maurice Buckmaster

Michael Goodliffe as Coding expert

André Maranne as Garage Man

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015.