Why put actors in quotations 😂

P.S. Does anyone know of a movie like this for the Norwegian Resistance? I found out not to long ago that my GrandFather's brother was apart of it, while my Grandfather served in the American Army. and I'd like to learn more about it.

The Void - I don't know of a movie, but there are some videos on YT about the Norwegian Resistance. The Norwegian citizens, and 40,000 armed Resistance members made daily life hell for the Germans. Hitler needed to keep up to 400,000 troops in Norway just to keep order and control things. And defend against a very possible Allied invasion.

Yes even as a schoolchild in the 60s I was never in any doubt that they were all heroes.

@@logancaine9616 Try the 1943 movie Edge Of Darkness.

​@@logancaine9616 Congratulations. That's amazing news to learn.

May their work never be forgotten who ever they were. Only known to their employers and the Special Forces Club in Hans Place London. !

S.O.E what a huge help for the french resistance (my grand father was part of it and help hiding parachutiste and receive packages. We do not forget them and remain extremely grateful. When some people try to minimise their immense and heroic help by saying "but it was useful to them, to their country so...", we despise them. They do not understand that these men (and women) felt like members of a sort of chivalry above countries and who, together, linked by the sense of history, fought evil.

That is really cool to hear. I wish that I knew when I was in high school what I know now because I lost out on the opportunity to talk to my principal, who had a very prominent scar from where a German soldier cut his throat on D-day, and my social studies teacher who was a POW of the Germans in WWII. I did have the privilege of talking to Col Rex Applegate several times, over several years, and learned a lot from our conversations. He was very helpful and very generous with his time in answering my questions. Sometimes, our phone conversations lasted over an hour (not cheap in those days of long-distance calling lol), but they were worth every penny.

She died a horrible death on the direct orders of Hitler.

I have named my daughter Violet after "Violette Szabo" the SOE were the best of the best. say their names with pride

I was lucky enough to meet one in or around 1997 when I was working at a bakery in Fetcham, Surrey. She was a customer and I was working behind the counter. She told me that she was parachuted into France. I regret not knowing what to ask her, being just a teenager, but I knew enough to show my gratitude. She was incredibly gracious and merely said, ''we had a hell of a war''.

agreed

Too bad that she worked for the U.N.

@@jeanhodgson8623 Yeah.. the United Nations where full of spies since day one..

motorcop505 Todays males need "safe spaces" because todays Feminist just have to make ONE false claim that she was "touched". Then it is all over for that Man. The Police, wouldn't you know. Show up at his door step like the Nazis and take him away.... Please think twice before you write... Pity I'am a little late in responding....

@@ENIGMAXII2112 I've never seen this movie before. My 1st wifes grandfather was SOE and was dropped into France to collect intel regarding the beaches at Normandy. A friend of father had been a double agent working for the allies in Poland throughout the war .When he was demobbed at the end of the war,he was interviewed by a couple of men who he thought were less than Patriotic. He had given the officer a lot of intel regarding the Kaytyn Massacre. They dismissed this as oure fiction and the story of the Massacre was buried until the 1980's when Dads friend published his biography,complete with pics of him in Gestapo and SS uniforms.(!!) The men responsible for the coverup were Kim Philby and company. Spies were effeminately everywhere.

He was a wonderful, wonderful cat.

More than mere words can possibly express. God bless them for eternity, amen. (Please let's also not forget the many children that did likewise.)

I wonder what they would think of state things are in now?

.. and in 1943 would you know what a portable X-ray machine looked like?? This is what actually happened (but not necessarily to Jacquline Nearne.

reddevilparatrooper - True. It's like dropping a New Yorker into Alabama, or Texas. If your regional accent isn't perfect, you are caught.

Ja I learnt German when I was in Nord Rhein Westphalan and spoke what is considered high German the equivalent of Oxford English. The Berliners have an accent akin to Cockney and Bavarians, Scottish. The Swiss and the Austians are a bit similar but the Friselanders speak old German mixed with Danish and Dutch I think because they almost have Irish accents.

Most of the documentaries I watch say 1 in 3 or 1 in 4 were killed, but I am with you- I bet it was more like 2/3 or 3/4 were killed or captured, just from the numbers they give on how many complete underground groups were wiped out by the gestapo. Very brave people indeed. I can't think of a much worse end than torture or slow death in a concentration camp.

In Holland particularly all the agents were captured - operated by the Germans - and the department responsible were ignorant of the fact - if an agent's message forgot to include the required security check the reply from SOE N section reminded them that they had left it out! Other country sections were not so incompetent. Leo Mrks - Between Silk and Cyanide MRD Foot - SOE 1940 - 1946

Churchill was a great leader--and a man truly dedicated to to his country.

@@WJack97224 - Yes, many cells were betrayed or found out. But overall, the Resistance or SOE members in Europe were fairly successful, despite the losses, in many objectives. That was one reason why cells were kept small in numbers, so that if one person was caught, not many people would be rounded up.

@@WJack97224 - Well, I guess the best agents, Allied or Axis, were never caught or suspected at all. Unfortunately I agree the British messed up a number of things. Because of that, SOE and Resistance operations were not quite as successful as they could have been. And the British messed it up in Holland. The Dutch Resistance therefore was not generally trusted at all.

Perhaps you might consider visiting the Capital sometime.

@@grazzer1673 been there great museums LONDON UK? MUCH NICER.

One day i hope to take my wife and children to France and show them around and teach them the history of the place to. Im a big massive lover of all things to do with ww2. Its fascinating that people like this did what they did for their country. Im from England and they isn't really much over here regarding museums ect. They is a few but they are 300 miles down south and im right up north lol. Is there many museums in France at all

Having worked in the transport industry for 35 years, I call b.s. China. Lol

Great film I agree but the Westlander Lysander with the huge advantages of short landing and take-off had room for 1 person and not too big a chap either or about 60kg of supplies. We made efforts through to end 1944 to omprove this bit could never get 2 + pilot in a Lysander. Expect story is true but was really two Lysander sorties.

Pilots notes for the Lysander in MRD Foot's official history SOE in France - Appendix D *_11 Loading of Aircraft_* _Three passengers are normally the maximum but four have been carried without incident in the past. As you may well imagine that means a squash. With either three or four it is thought impracticable for them to put on parachutes or bail out. If four passengers are carried one goes on the floor two on the seat and one on the shelf. This is not recommended with heavy people_

arr...at last a voice of reason... the BRITS had very little competence in this area.... the USA were not too fond of sharing information about THE MANHATTEN PROJECT because of the leaks in the British intelligence service..stay well

A whole intake of SOE were carefully vetted, trained and dropped in early '44.. they were betrayed on purpose, they all broke under interrogation and told all they knew about the D Day landings, and the Germans acted accordingly. They had all been given false information, knowing they would break under torture..

The German intelligence had turned a small number of agents of agents under torture to transmits all clear codes to the UK with out the secret warning God's included. The directors were not to blame. The person behind it was a extreme deep cover German agent who worked for the British during World War one. So was fully trusted but had fascist leanings. In France it was the resistance groups them self that betrayed British S.O.E. agents due to petty jealousies and political infighting over who was going to control France after the war. Once again the directors such as Colonel Buckmaster would not have any knowledge till after the war what had been going on. Easy to blame the higher levels of the new boys of the intelligence scene the S.O.E. especially as Military intelligence had closed ranks to try to freeze out the new upstarts. It was long after the war the S.I.S. Reluctantly took a small number of the S.O.E. In to their ranks. No ignorisng as claimed of intelligence from France. The blame of betrayal can be laid fully at the door of the French. This started at the start of the war by all levels of the French intelligence services and worst of all the French police who part from small numbers happily worked hand in hand with the Germans. Example if this was the medical records of French citizens which the French intelligence and police had full access to. These records had the religion of citizens on the cards along with employment details and home and work or business addresses. This enabled the Germans to quickly round up the Jewish population and any body who could work against the Germans .

I believe the idiot that ordered the "compromised prefix" of their agent to be ignored was that Buckmaster, SOE boss. How may unnecessary and hideous deaths was his arrogance responsible for.

You’re welcome ! “School for Danger” is one of my personal favorites.👍

+frustratednomad We are not Toff old bean just better by far than you plebs!

Lord Eden if you say so .

... spoken like a real toff.

I like people of all ethnic groups, but the E.U. is satanic. Its building is modeled on the tower of Babel.

I can actually tell what they're saying.

This posh English accent is an old form of RP Accent

There are hundreds of people who speak with that accent.

+David Norcross Yes!! The scene where they parachute into France, that's called "Day for Night" and also "le nuit americaine"; not uncommon in period noire films, and also used to great effect in Hollywood for any night-time scenes Easy to spot it, because the Moon rarely leaves shadows with that much contrast, compared to the Sun.

You are welcome !

There are no “actors” in this film. All the parts are played by “real” people who performed the actual service in WW2, including the SOE agents and French resistance. The plot is a an amalgamation of actual events stitched together into one scenario. It was filmed in France right after the liberation.

@@ZenosWarbirds I had no idea. The two leads were effective as any professional.

The knitting methods have a clear difference, the exaggeration is funny, and picks up on it, but the underlying difference is real, the French method is more efficient and faster.

six of one - I believe usually a resistance member on the ground would shine a flashlight device upwards in a large field. This is illustrated at 53:00 of the movie: ' The Longest Day ' . A low flying plane pilot in the right area could easily see it in the darkness. The parachutist would jump, aim for the light, and hope they landed in the field. Most often, they did. Two agent jumps at the same time were very rare. The plane would almost always circle and make a second pass, if necessary. Usually, a first or second drop would be made by a pushed out supply canister.

They only dropped by moonlight. Mission windows were only a few days either side of full moon. Look out the book 'We landed by moonlight' by Hugh Verity. And 'Maquis' by George Millar.

France is a very large country and there were few Germans to monitor goings on. Those two books will explain.

That’s the U.K version. This one was for U.S. distribution. I think an American production company may have been involved in post production. No difference in the content. In any case, there were different titles.

This film was made in 1944.

They weren't actors. Agent Felix is Harry Ree (later Professor Harry Ree, OBE, DSO) whose tactical expertise for the Special Operations Executive (eg. sabotage of the Peugeot arms factory in occupied France) made him a target for the Nazis. He evaded capture by biting off a nose, swimming a river and crawling through a forest. He also took four bullets in the line of duty. Later he became Headmaster of my old secondary school (before my time - but he was my primary head teacher's headmaster) and then Professor of Education at York, before returning to inner city classrooms in the last years of his career. He died the month our year took our A-levels. I think we can excuse him his "wooden acting".

paul cheney It was torture and then death.

You sound pedantic.

I thought he had brought the SS with him.