Paris Calling

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...

Cast

Elisabeth Bergner

Elisabeth Bergner

as Marianne Jannetier

Randolph Scott

Randolph Scott

as Flight Lt. Nicholas "Nick" Jordan

Basil Rathbone

Basil Rathbone

as Andre Benoit

Eduardo Ciannelli

Eduardo Ciannelli

as Mouche, the bartender

Gale Sondergaard

Gale Sondergaard

as Madame Colette

Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb

as Captain Schwabe

Charles Arnt

Charles Arnt

as Nazi Lt. Lantz

William Edmunds

William Edmunds

as 'Professor', the bar owner

Paul Leyssac

Paul Leyssac

as Chief of Underground

J. Pat O'Malley

J. Pat O'Malley

as Sgt. 'Mack' McAvoy

Reviews

CinemaSerf

"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 c...

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