Film · 1958 · Films · 1950s
Carve Her Name with Pride
Scored from 33 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 peers).
Summary
Violette Bushell, a London shop assistant with a French mother, marries Étienne Szabo, a Free French officer, and is left a widow with an infant daughter when he is killed in North Africa. Her fluent French brings her to the notice of the Special Operations Executive, and after parachute, weapons and codes training she is dropped into occupied France to contact the Resistance and report on a damaged sabotage network. Lewis Gilbert's British war drama, adapted from R. J. Minney's biography, stars Virginia McKenna as Szabo and Paul Scofield as Tony Fraser, the agent she works with in the field, and cuts between her missions and the child she leaves in England.
Carve Her Name with Pride is a 1958 biography, drama and war film. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. It runs 1h 59m.
Only 33 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 35 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 560 other films from the 1950s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 30 of whom clear the calibration test.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Carve Her Name with Pride lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1950s (561 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 33.
Cohort: Films · 1950s
