Paris Calling

Dec 4, 1941

1h 35m

★ 5.4

ADVENTURE pounding to the beat of your heart!

Overview

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...

Genres

Action

Adventure

Romance

War

Thriller

Drama

Production Companies

Charles K. Feldman Group

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Marianne Jannetier

Elisabeth Bergner

Flight Lt. Nicholas "Nick" Jordan

Randolph Scott

Andre Benoit

Basil Rathbone

Mouche, the bartender

Eduardo Ciannelli

Madame Colette

Gale Sondergaard

Captain Schwabe

Lee J. Cobb

Nazi Lt. Lantz

Charles Arnt

'Professor', the bar owner

William Edmunds

Chief of Underground

Paul Leyssac

Sgt. 'Mack' McAvoy

J. Pat O'Malley

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

Gene Garrick

Fiery Speaker at Jannetier House

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