Odette
- 1950
- 1h 45m
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6.8/10
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During WW2, a French woman living in England volunteers to work for British Intelligence in Nazi-occupied France.During WW2, a French woman living in England volunteers to work for British Intelligence in Nazi-occupied France.During WW2, a French woman living in England volunteers to work for British Intelligence in Nazi-occupied France.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination total
Gilles Quéant
- Jacques
- (as Gilles Queant)
Fritz Wendhausen
- Colonel
- (as F.R. Wendhousen)
Eddie Boyce
- Man in Fingerprint Queue
- (uncredited)
Marie Burke
- Mme. Gliere
- (uncredited)
Wolf Frees
- Major
- (uncredited)
Liselotte Goettinger
- German POW Camp Officer
- (uncredited)
Campbell Gray
- Paul
- (uncredited)
George Hilsdon
- Guard
- (uncredited)
John Hunter
- American Officer
- (uncredited)
Hugh Morton
- Italian Officer
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaAnna Neagle spent a year with Odette Hallowes visiting the various prisons and camps where she was held and being introduced to other surviving S.O.E. Agents. Odette said of her, "She was absolutely into it. In fact, it took one year after the end of the film to get back to normal. She was more upset by doing that film than I was reliving the experience."
- GoofsWhen Neagle & Ustinov are scrambling up a snow bank in order to light the beacon for the aircraft, they scramble up the SAME bank twice.
- Quotes
Odette Sanson: [Odette has been tortured] Would it be possible to say a Mass?
German priest: I would gladly do so my child. But my duties here are to comfort the dying and to bury the dead.
German priest: I will ask... but I am sure the Gestao will not permit me.
Odette Sanson: Why... Are they so afraid of God?
- Crazy creditsEpilogue, scrolls up the screen ... "It is with a sense of deep humility that I allow my personal story to be told. I am a very ordinary woman to whom a chance was given to see human beings at their best and at their worst. I knew kindness as well as cruelty, understanding as well as brutality. My comrades, who did far more than I and suffered far more profoundly, are not here to speak. It is to their memory that this film has been made and I would like it to be a window through which may be seen those very gallant women with whom I had the honour to serve." Odette Churchill
- ConnectionsFeatured in Al Murray's Great British Spy Movies (2014)
Featured review
This film, made in 1950 was one of many made around that time to record and pay tribute to the hero(ines) of World War Two. It is amazingly unsentimental, and all the more powerful for that reason. Anna Neagle shows more emotion in the few scenes where she contacts her children than she does later when spying for the British in France.
Neagle is surrounded by a galaxy of fine British actors including Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee (ironically playing the same kind of role as in his many outings in the Bond movies) and Marius Goring. I don't doubt the veracity of her exploits and she was very lucky to have survived the ordeal of her imprisonment at Ravensbruck. Neagle made many films with her husband Herbert Wilcox, this is probably one of the best, and though it is clearly a low budget film, it is none the worse for that.
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- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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