Carve Her Name with Pride 1958  N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Denise Grey, Alain Saury, Maurice Ronet, Anne Leon, Sydney Tafler, Avice Landone, Nicole Stephane, Noel Willman, Bill Owen, Billie Whitelaw, William Mervyn, Michael Goodliffe
This story is based on the real life of Violette Szabo (Virginia McKenna) who joined the British secret service during World War II. Her husband (Alain Saury) had just been killed in North Africa, but Violette left her baby girl behind and parachuted into enemy territory to begin work as a British agent. Violette was captured and sent to a concentration camp where she was tortured and finally executed. Her bravery in not revealing British secrets earned her (posthumously) the George Cross.
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Les Enfants Terribles 1950  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Strange Ones
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast: Nicole Stephane, Edouard Dermithe, Jacques Bernard, Renee Cosima, Melvyn Martin, Maria Cyliakus, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Marie Robain, Maurice Revel, Adeline Auroc
In this film adaptation of Jean Cocteau's novel, orphaned sister and brother–Elizabeth (Nicole Stephane) and Paul (Edouard Dermithe)–cling to each other and reject attempts of others to love them.
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| 1. Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)
2. Les Enfants Terribles (1950)
aka: The Strange Ones
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