2020 · history · crime · drama
A Call to Spy
Directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher2h 4m2020
The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.
Our read: A Call to Spy (2020) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded history · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured history / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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