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Paris Calling

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5.4/10 • 5

1941-12-041h 35m

ActionAdventureRomanceWarThriller

ADVENTURE pounding to the beat of your heart!

Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancée, a pro-Nazi informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee over a French seaport...

Directors
Edwin L. Marin

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  1. Elisabeth Bergner

    Elisabeth Bergner

    Marianne Jannetier

  2. Randolph Scott

    Randolph Scott

    Lt. Nicholas "Nick" Jordan

  3. Basil Rathbone

    Basil Rathbone

    Andre Benoit

  4. Gale Sondergaard

    Gale Sondergaard

    Colette

  5. Lee J. Cobb

    Lee J. Cobb

    Captain Schwabe

  6. Charles Arnt

    Charles Arnt

    Lt. Lantz

  7. Eduardo Ciannelli

    Eduardo Ciannelli

    Mouche

  8. J. Pat O'Malley

    J. Pat O'Malley

    Sgt. Bruce McAvoy

  9. Elisabeth Risdon

    Elisabeth Risdon

    Madame Jennetier

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CinemaSerf

Jan 5, 2025

6/10

"The Germans bombed her mother... There wasn't even enough left for a good ragout... She was a fine cow!" That's the kind of sentiment that the wealthy "Marianne" (Elisabeth Bergner) encounters as she and her mother attempt to flee Paris ahead of the encroaching Nazis. Thing is, isn't not just the cow that gets killed - her mother, too, and so she vows to return and do what she can for the resistance. Initially, she helps stranded American pilot "Nick" (Randolph Scott) with whom she soon falls in love, but somehow she also manages to arouse suspicions amongst her own camp that only a special mission can assuage. That involves her becoming the mistress of a Vichy French government minister "Benoit" (Basil Rathbone) whom everyone suspects is about to cave into the invaders. Things quickly turn distinctly perilous for the young woman, and she and her beau must try to escape the country for the safety of Britain before the net of the menacing "Schwabe" (Lee J. Cobb) closes in on them. It's all pretty standard fayre this, with Bergner rather a fish out of water but not so much as the oddly cast Cobb and there isn't enough of Rathbone to make much difference. Scott actually acquits himself ok, but then again he really only has to smile and play the handsome hero. It does raise the interesting issue of collaboration and the relative merits of those who wanted to fight on against those who wanted to stop further bloodshed, but that theme is rather more waved at us than explored fully. In the end, it's a perfectly watchable wartime morale booster that passes the time fine.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Keywords
paris, francenazioccupied france (1940-44)underground movement