"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…
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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
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
Otto Reichow
Gruber, Nazi raid parties lead officer
Georges Renavent
The Jennatier Butler
Elisabeth Risdon
Madame Jennetier
Rosalind Ivan
French Inn Proprietress
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What is Paris Calling about?
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…
When was Paris Calling released?
Paris Calling was released in 1941.
What genres does Paris Calling belong to?
Paris Calling is categorised as Action, Adventure, Romance, War, Thriller, Drama.
Who stars in Paris Calling?
The cast of Paris Calling includes Elisabeth Bergner, Randolph Scott, Basil Rathbone, Eduardo Ciannelli, Gale Sondergaard.