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Bookmark this pageCarve Her Name with Pride (1958)
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Gilbert and co-writer Vernon Harris had already sanctified Douglas Bader on film in Reach for the Sky when they turned here to the biography of allied spy Violette Szabo for more inspirational wartime heroism, greyly mapping her martyrdom in France as an illustration that the stiff upper lip can be inculcated even in a foreign woman if the training's true Brit.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Producer: Daniel M Angel
Cast: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Maurice Ronet, Denise Grey, Billie Whitelaw, Sydney Tafler full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 119 mins
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