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Paris Calling

Paris Calling

ADVENTURE pounding to the beat of your heart!

19415.41h 35mNR

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...

Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Written by Hans Székely, Benjamin Glazer, Charles Kaufman
Produced by Benjamin Glazer
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Top Cast

Elisabeth Bergner

Elisabeth Bergner

Marianne Jannetier

Randolph Scott

Randolph Scott

Flight Lt. Nicholas "Nick" Jordan

Basil Rathbone

Basil Rathbone

Andre Benoit

Eduardo Ciannelli

Eduardo Ciannelli

Mouche, the bartender

Gale Sondergaard

Gale Sondergaard

Madame Colette

Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb

Captain Schwabe

Charles Arnt

Charles Arnt

Nazi Lt. Lantz

William Edmunds

William Edmunds

'Professor', the bar owner

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Paul Leyssac

Chief of Underground

J. Pat O'Malley

J. Pat O'Malley

Sgt. 'Mack' McAvoy

Themes & Keywords

paris, francenazipatriotismsuspicionsabotagegestapoinnoccupied france (1940-44)secret codecollaboratorstolen documentsunderground movementbarhotel suitefrench nobilitystorm troopers

About Paris Calling

Paris Calling is a action, adventure, romance, war, thriller, drama film released in 1941 exploring themes of paris, france, nazi, patriotism, suspicion, sabotage, gestapo. Directed by Edwin L. Marin, it stars Elisabeth Bergner, Randolph Scott, Basil Rathbone. 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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