Brigitte Bardot became famous as a sex bomb but some of her most popular movies used her simply as a cutie. This one such flick - a big hit in France at the time, it casts her as a girl who feels France in 1940 and joins the Free French Forces - no Vichy for her.
They get her cleaning floors and working on the phones but Bardot is keen to help out behind enemy lines.She dated a German officer so she's parachuted back into France to help to try and stop the German invasion of England.
That's a fantastic idea and Bardot is immensely appealing with her pout and cuteness as she wears tin helmets, does pratfalls, tries on wigs. The second half of the movie makes the mistake of veering away from her and spending too much time on a chubby German comic. Apparently Roger Vadim was meant to direct this and was put on another project and I think he would've used Bardot better.
It's cheerful enough - Jacques Charrier the male lead later married Bardot. Leslie Howard's son Ronald is a British officer - I assume he was cast in part because of his ability to speak French.
Gorgeous colour, and the budget is decent. I just wish the second half was tighter. It needed another female in there, a bigger role for the French officer, or something. There was too much poking around.
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