Paris Calling

1941

1h 35m

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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

Writers

Hans Székely(story by)

Benjamin Glazer(screenplay by)

Charles Kaufman(screenplay by)

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Elisabeth Bergner

Randolph Scott

Basil Rathbone

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Elisabeth Bergner

Marianne Jannetier

Randolph Scott

Lt. Nicholas "Nick" Jordan

Andre Benoit

Colette

Captain Schwabe

Lt. Lantz

Mouche

Sgt. Bruce McAvoy

Madame Jennetier

Butler

Prof. Marceau

Waiter

Chief of Underground

Wolfgang Schmidt

Paul

Gruber

Gestapo Agent

Cherie

Directors

Edwin L. Marin

Writers

Hans Székely(story by)

Benjamin Glazer(screenplay by)

Charles Kaufman(screenplay by)

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"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.

Geronimo196705 Jan, 2025