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Carve Her Name with Pride is a 1958 British war drama film based on the book of the same name by R. J. Minney. The film, directed by Lewis Gilbert, is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive agent Violette Szabo, GC, who was captured and executed while serving in Nazi-occupied France. Szabo was played by Virginia McKenna.
Carve Her Name with Pride: Directed by Lewis Gilbert. With Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Denise Grey. During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.
This is a short but powerful biography of a British spy in World War II, a woman, whom not many people know about but who was instrumental in aiding the French resistance in Nazi occupied France, outwitting the Gestapo and doing so usually alone against overwhelming odds.
During World War II, Violette Szabo (Virginia McKenna) embarks on espionage missions in occupied France.
- History, Drama, Biography
During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France. Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother, living in London in the early years of World War II.
Carve Her Name with Pride written by R J Minney tells the story of Violette Szabo an agent of the SOE who on her second mission behind enemy lines was caught, interrogated and eventually executed by the Gestapo in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp.
Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo who was born in Paris Iin 1921 to an English motor-car dealer, and a French Mother. She met and married Etienne Szabo, a Captain in the French Foreign Legion in 1940.
- R. J. Minney
