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  • Actors: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Denise Grey, Alain Saury
  • Directors: Lewis Gilbert
  • Writers: Lewis Gilbert, Leo Marks, R.J. Minney, Vernon Harris
  • Producers: Daniel M. Angel, Earl St. John, Hugh Perceval
  • Format: Black & White, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Network
  • DVD Release Date: 22 Jan 2007
  • Run Time: 115 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000I8OP4G
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,619 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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CARVE HER NAME WITH PRIDE is based on the heroic true story of Violette Szabo. Violette, fluent in French, volunteered to parachute into France to work as a secret agent alongside the French Resistance during World War II. After being captured by the Germans she refused to reveal the identities of her comrades to the Gestapo despite being tortured.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A must for everyone, 11 May 2009
By G. D. Matthews "DVD/Bookwom" (Piraeus - Greece) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carve Her Name With Pride [DVD] [1958] (DVD)
For me this is one of the very best "True War" Stories.
It proves that the women of the Second World War did more than sit at home knitting glove.balalavas and socks as so many people thought.

BE WARNED - before viewing make sure you have a box of tissues handy.
It is a real "weepy" movie but at the same time it fills you with pride
especially if you are a British woman. I am proud just to own this DVD.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Top British war film- one for the ladies , 8 Jan 2009
By Peter Wade (Colchester England) - See all my reviews
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There were a glut of these films in the 1950s. The memoirs were coming out and they were selling well. after all we had won the war. People now wanted uplifting films depicting ordinary people doing their bit.

They could be regarded as sentimental and unrealistic with posh actresses like Virginia McKenna playing working class girls who worked in Woolworth's marrying a Frenchman then volunteering to do her bit for the war effort. She loses her husband but has a daughter to bring up.

As an aside Woolworth's failed in the last few days but int he film it is shown as flourishing and she had to be careful that the supervisor did not catch her not working. It obviously didn't work s now it has gone bust.

It is in the same vein as Town Like Alice where ordinary British girls do their best against appalling odds. Another reviewer commented that Round the Horne used to parody these films which was true. At the time it was what people wanted to show how we all pulled together and bear the enemy against appalling odds.

People who lived in ordinary streets in London risked their lives by being dripped into occupied Europe. When I was younger I used to go to the pictures to watch these films and rarely did they feature women. It was usually Douglas Bader or chaps planing to escape from prisoner of war camps.


Perhaps they should show it to people today who claim that women should not being the front line. It could be a feminist tract for the promotion of equality of women.


All films are Dirty dozen you have the training phase whereby you meet the characters so that you know them all and you can identify with them. They then go into battle and the mission succeeds but has problems and maybe a few come home. Unfortunately Violette Szabo didn't come home

She could not tell her parents what she was doing and her dad Jack Warner found her wings and realised that she was not serving tea and driving lorries. That scene could make you cry as Dad and daughter were reconciled

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Michael Caine appears briefly as one of the prisoners on the train. As Violette starts to escape he leans forwards and calls out for water.

The code-poem used in the film was the real code poem used by Violette Szabo while she was sending messages back from occupied France. The poem was written by 'Leo Marks' who was a cryptographer for SOE and often used poems like this for agents to use.

The life that I have is all that I have, The life that I have is yours.

The love that I have of the life that I have Is yours and yours and yours.

A sleep I shall have, A rest I shall have Yet death will be but a pause.

For the peace of my years In the long green grass Will be yours and yours and yours

Another reviewer said they found the film slow and boring and I can see what they mean as the story unfolds and is quite wordy. After she is captured there is a bit of action but it is mainly chat and we get to the moving sight of her daughter receiving a medal from the King.

It is worth persevering with as it is a great war film and is amongst the British top 100 war films.

A must see film.


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5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic service, 10 Dec 2008
By Mr. T. E. Symonds "Telboy" (Winchester, UK) - See all my reviews
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Fantastic service - I ordered 'Carve her name with Pride' and it arrived at my front door within 24hrs - first class. Will definitely use this again. Tel.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Carve her name with pride
Having read A life in secrets by Sarah Helm I could not wait to see carve her name with pride and it came right up to my expectations. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A very brave young woman in WW2
I had heard of the Violette Szabo and meant to read about her for years.
This year I bought both the book Carve her Name with Pride and the dvd. Read more
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