Paris Calling

Paris Calling

ADVENTURE pounding to the beat of your heart!

1941 · 95 min · ★ 6.0 · Action, Adventure, Romance, War, Thriller, Drama

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

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Cast

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
Paul Leyssac Chief of Underground
J. Pat O'Malley Sgt. 'Mack' McAvoy
Gene Garrick The Panicked German Co-Pilot [script name: Wolfgang Schmidt]
Pedro de Cordoba Fiery Speaker at Jannetier House

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