Odette

During the Second World War, French-born Odette Sansom, working for Britain's Special Operations Executive, is sent into occupied France. She is captured in 1943, interrogated, sentenced to death and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Against everything anyone expected, she comes out of the war alive. Herbert Wilcox made the film only five years after the war, while the events were still close; Maurice Buckmaster, her superior at the organisation, appears in it playing himself. The telling never slides into spy-thriller excitement, and the weight falls on holding out, not talking, and staying alive. Anna Neagle plays Odette and Trevor Howard her contact. After the war Sansom became the first woman awarded the George Cross.