Paris Calling

Paris Calling (1941)

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...

Date of release
1941-12-04
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Romance, War, Thriller, Drama
Director
Edwin L. Marin

Casting

Interesting facts

Paris Calling is a 1941 American war film noir directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring Randolph Scott, Elisabeth Bergner and Basil Rathbone. It was produced by Universal Pictures before America's entry into World War II and released just after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Production notes

Production dates: July 22 to Mid-September 1941

This was the first film made in America by noted European stage and screen actress Elisabeth Bergner, whose name is spelled "Elizabeth" in the onscreen credits.

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