The Golan-Globus answer to Carve Her Name with Pride. That hit film, though, was made in 1958 and 30 years on the stories of such war heroines as Violette Szabo and, here, the young Hungarian writer Hanna Senesh seem, especially when told at such length, more appropriate to the format of a TV mini-series. Golan's film gets off to a pretty sticky start and only succeeds in spasms. Detmers is quite good as Hanna; but, like the film, it's a variable performance that's not always totally convincing. Even more up and down is Anthony Andrews as her RAF instructor, with a Scottish accent that mostly stays, but occasionally goes altogether. Warner and Pleasence, mournfully and myopically respectively, parade their familiar baddies. Burstyn is adequate as Hanna's mother and Ingrid Pitt registers briefly as a fierce Yugoslav partisan. Action scenes are okay, but too few and far between.

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