Paris Calling

ADVENTURE pounding to the beat of your heart!

5.4
19411h 35m

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...

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Cast

Photo of Elisabeth Bergner

Elisabeth Bergner

Marianne Jannetier

Photo of Randolph Scott

Randolph Scott

Flight Lt. Nicholas "Nick" Jordan

Photo of Basil Rathbone

Basil Rathbone

Andre Benoit

Photo of Eduardo Ciannelli

Eduardo Ciannelli

Mouche, the bartender

Photo of Gale Sondergaard

Gale Sondergaard

Madame Colette

Photo of Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb

Captain Schwabe

Photo of Charles Arnt

Charles Arnt

Nazi Lt. Lantz

Photo of William Edmunds

William Edmunds

'Professor', the bar owner

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J. Pat O'Malley

Sgt. 'Mack' McAvoy

Photo of Gene Garrick

Gene Garrick

The Panicked German Co-Pilot [script name: Wolfgang Schmidt]

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Pedro de Cordoba

Fiery Speaker at Jannetier House

Photo of Otto Reichow

Otto Reichow

Gruber, Nazi raid parties lead officer

Photo of Georges Renavent

Georges Renavent

The Jennatier Butler

Photo of Elisabeth Risdon

Elisabeth Risdon

Madame Jennetier

Photo of Rosalind Ivan

Rosalind Ivan

French Inn Proprietress

Photo of Harlan Briggs

Harlan Briggs

French Inn Proprietor

Photo of Ian Wolfe

Ian Wolfe

The Careless Underground Agent

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Georges Metaxa

Room Service Waiter, at Benoit's hotel room

Photo of Adolph Milar

Adolph Milar

Gestapo Agent Watching Outside the Bar, et seq.

Photo of Jeff Corey

Jeff Corey

Benoit's Male Secretary

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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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