Odette

1950
1h 45m

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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.

Director
- Herbert Wilcox
Writers
- Jerrard Tickell
- Warren Chetham Strode
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6.8/10

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Director
- Herbert Wilcox
Writers
- Jerrard Tickell
- Warren Chetham Strode
Stars

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Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination

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Anna Neagle

Odette Sansom…

Trevor Howard

Captain Peter Churchill…

Marius Goring

Colonel Henri

Peter Ustinov

Lt. Alex Rabinovich…

Bernard Lee

Jack

Maurice Buckmaster

Self

Alfred Schieske

Camp Commandant

Gilles Quéant

Jacques
(as Gilles Queant)

Marianne Walla

S.S. Wardress

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
- Herbert Wilcox
Writers
- Jerrard Tickell
- Warren Chetham Strode
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Trivia
Anna 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."

Goofs
When 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?

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Epilogue, 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

Connections
Featured in Al Murray's Great British Spy Movies (2014)

Soundtracks
Saga of Odette
(uncredited)
Composed by Anthony Collins

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6/10

A tribute and historical testimony

This movie is a tribute to all the women and men that risk their lives in resisting in France. It tells the story of Odette, a French-born woman that decided to enlist in a British section working under cover in France to help resistance and gather intelligence.

The movie is inspired by real events and tries to give a good overview on what was that kind of life. It can only be commended for that. However in itself, the movie is so so, not to say disappointing. It lacks a few film to grasp the audience and make us feel the bravery shown by all this women and men!

I also did not understand the language management in this movie: We switch from English to French in France only to distinguish the British spys from the rest - at first - and then every French in relation with them speak English as well. It should have be either all in English or in French: to speak English in France under cover would be really amateurish... (I'll not mention the bad French spoken with an evident English accent). On top of it, same happens with German (with the secretary being told bad with English to the next scene fluently talking in that language...).