ODETTE - Anna Neagle

[JohnB_Toronto]

Coming to DVD on March 30, 2008

[batman]

Originally Posted by JohnB_Toronto Coming to DVD on March 30, 2008

R1 or R2?

Bats.

[JohnB_Toronto]

Originally Posted by batman R1 or R2? Bats.

.... Region 2, PAL from Optimum

[batman]

Originally Posted by JohnB_Toronto .... Region 2, PAL from Optimum

Great news .... bye bye knackered old VHS copy!

Bats.

[JohnB_Toronto]

Originally Posted by batman Great news .... bye bye knackered old VHS copy! Bats.

You can thank me for that - every time I transfer a beat-up old VHS copy to DVD they announce the release of a nice clean DVD! It's just like I can make it rain by getting my car washed.

[Harleybloke]

This is the story of Odette Hallows?????

[Nick Dando]

No, Odette Sanson. And a very good film it is too.

Odette (1950)

Nick

[Steve Crook]

Originally Posted by Harleybloke This is the story of Odette Hallows?????

Originally Posted by Nick Dando No, Odette Sanson. And a very good film it is too. Odette (1950) Nick

That's the same person
She married a few times and was known by various names.
Born Odette Marie Celine Brailly in Amiens, 1912
She married the Englishman Roy Sansom in 1931, moving with him to England.
Sansom had died during her imprisonment and she married Peter Churchill (no relation to Winston) in 1947, a fellow SOE operative. They were divorced in 1956.
She married Geoffrey Hallowes in 1956

It is a great film and tells quite accurately the story of a very brave lady.
I think that the most remarkable thing about her was that she genuinely bore no hatred towards those that had tortured her. She realised that hating them would do them no harm and would only damage her. She also said that they gave her the George Cross because they needed a body to pin one on and she was one of the few to survive.

There are a few "filmic shortcuts" like merging a few of the people she served with or fought against into a single character. But apart from that it's quite accurate.

There is a nice introduction by Maurice Buckmaster, the head of F Section, SOE, a great portrayal of their wireless operator by Peter Ustinov and Marius Goring plays a sinister baddie.

The book by Jerrard Tickell gives a lot more of Odette's background and how she was able to survive the torture and imprisonment (months in the dark).

Odette gave a filmed interview for the War Museum archive before she died in 1995.

Steve

[Lady Lois]

Anna Neagle gives a tremendous performance...

[Harleybloke]

We were in The Wheatsheaf pub in Tempsford village on Saturday. Tempsford airfield being where a lot of the agents flew from.

Lots of pics on the walls about Odette and Violette Zarbo.

...............nice sausage sarnie too and the Broadside bitter is superb! Good job the management was driving...........

[Steve Crook]

Originally Posted by Harleybloke We were in The Wheatsheaf pub in Tempsford village on Saturday. Tempsford airfield being where a lot of the agents flew from. Lots of pics on the walls about Odette and Violette Zarbo. ...............nice sausage sarnie too and the Broadside bitter is superb! Good job the management was driving...........

There are memorials in the church and at the airfield

Steve

[Rob Compton]

Originally Posted by Harleybloke ...............nice sausage sarnie too and the Broadside bitter is superb! Good job the management was driving...........

Sorry, Harley, I do realise this is off topic, but I assume you mean Adnams Broadside! Between Christmas and New Year I was in Southwold where it's brewed and it's a great beer! Nice place, too (shades of Michael Palin's "East of Ipswich") and a fantastic pier - the "Under the Pier Show" is so funny - those who have visited will know what I mean....

And just to finish on a vaguely cinematic note, the town has an Electric Picture Palace showing films and opened by the said Mr Palin!

rgds
Rob

[Harleybloke]

Yep! The Adnams stuff and def very Yum-Yum..........!!

[stevie boy]

Originally Posted by Steve Crook That's the same person She married a few times and was known by various names. Born Odette Marie Celine Brailly in Amiens, 1912 She married the Englishman Roy Sansom in 1931, moving with him to England. Sansom had died during her imprisonment and she married Peter Churchill (no relation to Winston) in 1947, a fellow SOE operative. They were divorced in 1956. She married Geoffrey Hallowes in 1956 It is a great film and tells quite accurately the story of a very brave lady. I think that the most remarkable thing about her was that she genuinely bore no hatred towards those that had tortured her. She realised that hating them would do them no harm and would only damage her. She also said that they gave her the George Cross because they needed a body to pin one on and she was one of the few to survive. There are a few "filmic shortcuts" like merging a few of the people she served with or fought against into a single character. But apart from that it's quite accurate. There is a nice introduction by Maurice Buckmaster, the head of F Section, SOE, a great portrayal of their wireless operator by Peter Ustinov and Marius Goring plays a sinister baddie. The book by Jerrard Tickell gives a lot more of Odette's background and how she was able to survive the torture and imprisonment (months in the dark). Odette gave a filmed interview for the War Museum archive before she died in 1995. Steve

Maurice Buckmaster lived to be a 100!! good going also I wonder if that was his house that he made the intro from?? He was pretty good in the film, all in all a very good film.