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Odette Directed by Herbert Wilcox Written by Warren Chetham-Strode
Jerrard Tickell (book)Starring Anna Neagle
Trevor Howard
Marius Goring
Bernard Lee
Peter UstinovRelease date(s) 1950 Running time 124 minutes Country United Kingdom Language English, French, German Box office ₤269,463 (UK)[1] Odette is a 1950 film that was directed by Herbert Wilcox and used a screenplay by Warren Chetham-Strode. The film starred Anna Neagle as Odette Sansom, an Allied French-born heroine of World War II who joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and was sent to France to work with the resistance. Trevor Howard played the part of Peter Churchill, the British agent she mainly worked with. Peter Ustinov played their radio operator.
Churchill and Odette were both captured by the Nazis after having operated successfully for some time. Odette was badly tortured but didn't reveal anything. She was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp, survived and was awarded the George Cross (The highest British award for bravery not directly in the face of the enemy).
Colonel Maurice Buckmaster, who was head of the SOE's French Section, played himself in the film, as did Paddy Sproule a FANY female SOE agent.[2]
Notes
- ^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/8033300/Paddy-Sproule.html
External links
- Odette at the Internet Movie Database
The films of Herbert Wilcox 1920s Chu-Chin-Chow (1923) • Southern Love (1924) • Decameron Nights (1924) • Nell Gwyn (1926) • London (1926) • Mumsie (1927) • Tip Toes (1927) • Madame Pompadour (1927) • The Only Way (1927) • Dawn (1928) • The Bondman (1929) • The Woman in White (1929)1930s The Loves of Robert Burns (1930) • The Chance of a Night Time (1931) • Carnival (1931) • The Blue Danube (1932) • Goodnight, Vienna (1932) • Money Means Nothing (1932) • The King's Cup (1933) • The Little Damozel (1933) • Bitter Sweet (1933) • Yes, Mr. Brown (1933) • The Queen's Affair (1934) • Nell Gwyn (1934) • Peg of Old Drury (1935) • Three Maxims (1936) • London Melody (1937) • Limelight (1937) • Victoria the Great (1937) • Sixty Glorious Years (1938) • This'll Make You Whistle (1938) • Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)1940s Irene (1940) • No, No, Nanette (1940) • Sunny (1941) • They Flew Alone (1942) • Forever and a Day (1943) • Yellow Canary (1943) • I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945) • Piccadilly Incident (1946) • The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947) • Spring in Park Lane (1948) • Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948) • Maytime in Mayfair (1949)1950s Odette (1950) • Into the Blue (1950) • The Lady with the Lamp (1951) • Derby Day (1952) • Trent's Last Case (1952) • Laughing Anne (1953) • Trouble in the Glen (1954) • Lilacs in the Spring (1954) • King's Rhapsody (1955) • My Teenage Daughter (1956) • These Dangerous Years (1957) • The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958) Wonderful Things! (1958) • The Lady Is a Square (1959) • The Heart of a Man (1959)Categories:- World War II films
- Spy films
- 1950 films
- British films
- British Lion Films films
- Black-and-white films
- English-language films
- Films directed by Herbert Wilcox
- War film stubs
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