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School for Danger

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Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) provides trained agents, arms and other assistance to the European resistance groups fighting against Hitler. British agents, Captain Harry Rée DSO, OBE, Croix De Guerre, Médaille de la Résistance, aka "Felix", and Jacqueline Nearne, MBE, aka "Cat", recreate some of their adventures in France.

Status: Released

Released Date: 1947-06-02

Runtime: 69 mins

Director: Teddy Baird

Writer: Teddy Baird

Spoken language: English

Genres: War, Documentary

Original title: School for Danger

Production Companies: COI

Production Countries: United Kingdom

Cast

Henry Pickard

Teddy Baird

Felix

Harry Rée

Cat

Jacqueline Nearme

Reviews

Geronimo1967

This is an intriguing watch featuring some genuine French resistance workers that gives a real authenticity to their courageous efforts in conjunction with considerable co-operation and co-ordination from the Royal Air Force. In inflicting maximum damage to the Nazi war machine during WWII, they proved daring and innovative. It's based around two characters - "Felix" (Harry Rée) and "Cat" (Jacqueline Nearne) who provide us with an interesting narrative around how they are selected, trained and utilised in this most secretive - and dangerous - of tasks: causing as much mayhem and mischief to the enemy by sabotaging lines of communications in remarkably simple, but extremely effective ways. It's more of a documentary, there is not really much acting, as such - but that gives it much greater credibility as the crucial nature of their work is writ large. At just over the hour, it's well worth a gander.

2022-07-07

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