Paris After Dark

1943

1h 25m

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5.6/10

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Andre Marbel is the upper-class doctor who is able to continue his practice above suspicion even though he is a leader in the French Resistance. His nurse supports his activities, but her Nazi-brainwashed husband provides the tension.

Directors

Léonide Moguy

Writers

Harold Buchman(screenplay by)

Stars

George Sanders

Philip Dorn

Brenda Marshall

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Dr. Andre Marbel

Jean Blanchard

Yvonne Blanchard

Collette

Michel

Col. Pirosh

Capt. Franch

George Benoit

Victor Durand

Lucien Benoit

Max

Madame Benoit

Directors

Léonide Moguy

Writers

Harold Buchman(screenplay by)

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6/10

Set amidst the Nazi occupation of Paris, this film follows the perilous lives of those trying to balance their routine "public" lives with organising the resistance. Leading their efforts is "Dr. Marbel" (George Sanders) who manages to stay on decent enough terms with the brutish "Col. Pirosh" (Robert Lewis) by helping treat his soldiers. Not everyone knows of his more patriotic role, though, and he frequently earns the enmity of his compatriots. "Blanchard" (Philip Dorn), meantime, has just returned from a period of incarceration and is pretty shell-shocked, his spirit broken and his nerves on edge. He tries to encourage a policy of co-operation - to stay alive. This causes ructions with the hot-headed "Georges" (Raymond Roe) whose tragic murder galvanises the locals just as the Allies land in Algiers. It's a bit wordy this, but Léonide Moguy does create a sense of the constant state of fear in which the population lived at the hands of their malevolent new masters. It's not a particularly notable effort from Sanders, but Dorn and firebrand Roe contrast well as people have to make almost impossible choices to keep themselves, and their families, from a potential firing squad. It's not really got an ending, more a work in progress and though perfectly watchable, isn't really very memorable.

Geronimo196703 Dec, 2023