One of the best things in Daniel Craig’s second outing as James Bond, Quantum of Solace, was a cameo in the film’s coda, Stana Katic playing a Canadian Intelligence officer.

In A CALL TO SPY she gets a much more substantial role as Vera Atkins, one of the pioneers of the Special Operations Executive, the most secret agency ordered by Churchill at the beginning of World War II.

A mandate of her position was to recruit and train women as spies, send them across the English Channel, conduct sabotage and build resistance against the Nazis.

In A CALL TO SPY, Atkins recruits two unusual candidates for the clandestine: Virginia Hall played by Sarah Megan Thomas, an ambitious American with a wooden leg, and NoorInayat Khan portrayed by Radhika Atpe, a Sufi pacifist.

With limited funding and fast tracked training, these women are sent across the English Channel to undermine the Nazi regime in France, leaving an indelible legacy in their wake.

Sarah Megan Thomas’ screenplay is inspired by true stories about the personal sacrifice of courageous individuals who put their lives on the line to fight for freedom.

A CALL TO SPY is a character study in courage, both individually and collaboratively, where publicly minded participants with conviction and confidence can face overwhelming danger and evil, making gender, physical disability, and race no impediment to resilience and resistance.

These women were wonder women, not amazon but amazing, and director Lydia Dean Pilcher has made a rather old fashioned film that shows up the inanity of most of the untalented exhibitionists making movies today.

Much of the success of A CALL TO SPY to entertain is its engagement with the verisimilitude of its era, putting fierce heat on an oppressive regime, and giving fresh heart to a country in need.