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Paris Calling

- 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...

Release Date : 1941-12-04

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Charles K. Feldman GroupUniversal Pictures

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Marianne Jannetier

Original Name : Elisabeth Bergner

Gender : Female

Character Name : Lt. Nicholas "Nick" Jordan

Original Name : Randolph Scott

Gender : Male

Character Name : Andre Benoit

Original Name : Basil Rathbone

Gender : Male

Character Name : Colette

Original Name : Gale Sondergaard

Gender : Female

Character Name : Captain Schwabe

Original Name : Lee J. Cobb

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lt. Lantz

Original Name : Charles Arnt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mouche

Original Name : Eduardo Ciannelli

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sgt. Bruce McAvoy

Original Name : J. Pat O'Malley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Madame Jennetier

Original Name : Elisabeth Risdon

Gender : Female

Character Name : Butler

Original Name : Georges Renavent

Gender : Male

Character Name : Prof. Marceau

Original Name : William Edmunds

Gender : Male

Character Name : Waiter

Original Name : Georges Metaxa

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chief of Underground

Original Name : Paul Leyssac

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wolfgang Schmidt

Original Name : Gene Garrick

Gender : Male

Character Name : Paul

Original Name : Paul Bryar

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gruber

Original Name : Otto Reichow

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gestapo Agent

Original Name : Adolph Milar

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cherie

Original Name : Marion Murray

Gender : Male

Character Name : Marie

Original Name : Grace Lenard

Gender : Female

Character Name : Simone

Original Name : Yvette Bentley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Renee

Original Name : Marcia Ralston

Gender : Female

Character Name : German Guard (uncredited)

Original Name : Richard Alexander

Gender : Male

Character Name : Secretary (uncredited)

Original Name : Jeff Corey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Waiter (uncredited)

Original Name : Gino Corrado

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gendarme (uncredited)

Original Name : Lester Dorr

Gender : Male

Character Name : Thick Workman (uncredited)

Original Name : Philip Van Zandt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gestapo Officer (uncredited)

Original Name : William Yetter Sr.

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2025-01-05

"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.