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www.timeout.com - : 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. more...
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www.channel4.com - : Keep your eyes peeled for a glimpse of the young Michael Caine as an uncredited extra in this stirring, if sometimes predictable account of gung-ho wartime exploits. McKenna is very appealing in a stiff-upper-lippy kind of way as Violette Szabo, an English girl who turned secret agent during the Second World War, with solid support from Scofield, Warner and Whitelaw. Based on R J Minney's book, this is territory already charted in films such as Reach for the Sky, but is notable for a stirring poem by Leo Marks ('The Life That I Have') and for the chance to see McKenna at her finest. more...
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