A Call to Spy : A Sobering Look at War Without Exaggeration or Dramatic Twists
While the look at the lives and work of three female spies is smart and shorn of tokenism, it lacks an overarching question, and is tepid in parts.
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A Call To Spy, set during the World War II, tells the story of three individuals who contributed to the Allies victory without being on the frontlines.
In a war spearheaded by men, three women â Vera Akins (Stana Katic), Virginia Hall (Sarah Megan Thomas), and Noor Inayat Khan (Radhika Apte) â held their own, outwitting the Nazis, inspiring a legion of followers. The war flared via bullets and bombs, guns and grenades, but it was helped to halt by stealth and code.
World War Two spy drama revealing in all the wrong ways
World War Two spy drama revealing in all the wrong ways
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Rated M, 124 minutes
There’s surely a film to be made about the exploits of Virginia Hall, whose wartime sobriquet was the limping lady”. Born in Baltimore, the well-educated Hall travelled in the 1930s to Europe where a decade later she became an Allied spy, rescuing British airmen stranded in occupied France and helping to organise the Resistance – all this despite a pre-war shooting accident that forced her to rely on a prosthetic leg (which she nicknamed “Cuthbert”).
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