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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1958 DVD Release: 05/13/2008 Format: DVD - Black and White,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 59 mins Studio: United Artists Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Spy Film, War, War Drama, War Spy Film, Resistance Film

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. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide

Virginia McKenna - Violette Szabo
Paul Scofield - Tony Fraser
Jack Warner - Mr. Bushell
Denise Grey - Mrs. Bushell
Alain Saury - Etienne Szabo

Lewis Gilbert's Carve Her Name With Pride (1958) never even made it to VHS tape in the United States, so this DVD issue is welcome, even if it comes with no frills. The black-and-white image is mastered with reasonable sharpness and contrast in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.66-to-1, the standard non-anamorphic widescreen aspect ratio. The audio is mastered cleanly as well, but at a very low volume level, which has to be boosted a fair amount for proper viewing. There are no bonus features, but the movie has been broken down well, in terms of having over two-dozen well-selected chapters. And it opens automatically to an easy-to-use menu. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide