Underplayed Gems

Odette (1950)

Odette poster
Directed by
Herbert Wilcox
Genre
spy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
2h 04m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 27 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A British housewife is recruited as a spy for the Special Operations Executive during World War Two. She is captured by the Germans, sentenced to death, and sent to a concentration camp. Despite the extreme danger she endures, she survives the war and later testifies against her captors.

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What happens

Odette is a 1950 British war film based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French agent, Odette Sansom, living in England, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survived the war and testified against the prison guards at the Hamburg Ravensbrück trials. She was awarded the George Cross in 1946; the first woman ever to receive the award, and the only woman who has been awarded it while still alive. Anna Neagle plays Odette Sansom and Trevor Howard plays Peter Churchill, the British agent she mainly worked with and married after the war. Peter Ustinov plays their Jewish radio operator Alex Rabinovitch, Cr de Guerre, OBE, MiD. Colonel Maurice Buckmaster, who was head of the SOE's French Section, played himself in the film, as did Paddy Sproule, another FANY female SOE agent. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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