Action · Adventure
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...
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Elisabeth Bergner
Marianne Jannetier
Randolph Scott
Flight Lt. Nicholas "Nick" Jordan
Basil Rathbone
Andre Benoit
Eduardo Ciannelli
Mouche, the bartender
Gale Sondergaard
Madame Colette
Lee J. Cobb
Captain Schwabe
Charles Arnt
Nazi Lt. Lantz
William Edmunds
'Professor', the bar owner
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Universal PicturesReviews
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6/101/5/2025
"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 tu
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