Odette

So glad I own this DVD telling the story of an everyday person, of the title, who joined the SOE's . Played by the excellent Anna Neagle, it tells the story of her bravery after going to France & passing messages, documents etc to & from the resistance. Her superior officer was ably played by Trevor Howard, who falls in love with her. Another stalwart actor was Peter Ustinov. Odette eventually gets captured & passed on to the ruthless Gestapo. She pretends to be the brains & the Trevor Howard character was a playboy relative of Winston Churchill, & he was her husband. This is a truly horrific story of the worst of mankind .& at times the best. It is all the more poignant because It's a true story. Directed by Herbert Willcox who was Anna Neagle's husband. This is rivetting viewing, a must for anyone who wants to know of the sacrifices made to win WW2 .

I have always liked this film so I was looking forward to watching this on Blu-ray & not for the first time I was disapointed in the transfer to Blu-ray it's covered in grain ? Yes it's an old film but so is I was Montys Double and both from Studiocanal Montys Double is near perfect so why not Odette? The only thing i can come up with is it's the only best copy they could find? So again Great Film Shame About The Transfer.

Why not simply use a truth drug, supposing such a useful commodity actually existed? But that wouldn't be half as much fun as seeing Anna Neagle with her blouse torn down the back and the Gestapo thugs leering over her. Evidently Mel Brooks and the creators of 'Wish Me Luck' were heavily inspired by this turkey! I seem to remember 'Carve Her Name With Pride' being a good deal better.Peter Ustinov is bloody awful (not that he was ever much good); even Trevor Howard can't save it.

a great film she was so brave

'Odette' is the most moving of films.It also seems incredibly real. You can imagine yourself there.The cast are uniformly excellent.The triumphs and tragedies of SOE Agents in the field are painted brilliantly.The story goes into overdrive when Lise is taken prisoner.As with the films 'Carve Her Name With Pride' and 'Now It Can Be Told' you are leftin no doubt that these women are the bravest of the brave and the men also.Lise is steely in her fortitude, adept at spying and is an indomitable spiritual force even in Ravensbruck.One of the most telling movies ever made about the war.

what women had to go true when they entered the war and came to europe we have to give our best to odette and all her fellows who mede the destruction of Hitler might possible we can't say no thank you enough for what these women did my thanks to not only odette but all the women wowent missing during the war

I was unaware of the existence of this film and only came accross the title whilst reseaching Col. Buckmaster. My stepfather was one of the Colonel's drivers during WW2 and, although I have a number of photos of his time in France, after D-day, I had none of the Colonel, so it was nice to put a face to the man, as he appears in the film.The film is typically '50s format and tends brush lightly over much of the work Odette did. It also left me puzzled by her transformation from Mrs. Samsom - at the beginning - to Mrs. Peter Churchill towards the end. Nonetheless it does a fairly good job of hightlighting the peril these men and women faced in France.

Anna Neagle flutters through this bio as a French agent working for the Brits. A competent performance, although she does not have to do much apart fromfalling in love wth Trevor Howard.