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Paris Underground

Name: Paris Underground
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1945-10-18
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 6.167

★ 6,2 /10 (6 Votes)

1945 EN 96 min

Overview

Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory. The screenplay was based on the true wartime activities of Etta Shiber, who engineered the escape of nearly 300 Allied pilots. British fans of comedienne Gracie Fields were put off by the scenes in which she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period.

Release date

18/10/1945

Votes

Popularity

0.6

SENSATIONAL! REVEALING! Amazing story that tears the veil of secrecy from terrors of occupied Paris!

Genres

Drama War

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

96 min

Constance Bennett

Kitty de Mornay

Gracie Fields

Emmeline Quayle

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George Rigaud

Andre de Mornay

Kurt Kreuger

Capt. Kurt von Weber

Eily Malyon

Madame Martin

Vladimir Sokoloff

Undertaker

Gregory Gaye

Tissier

Leslie Vincent

Lt. William Gray

Charles Andre

Father Dominique

Richard Ryen

Mons. Renard

Maurice Cass

Patriot

Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Margot

Andrew V. McLaglen

Sgt. McNair

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This is quite a quirky and entertaining story of two unlikely ladies who decide to help smuggle allied airmen out of France during WWII. "Kitty de Mornay" (Constance Bennett) a determined American and her British friend "Emmy Quayle" (Gracie Fields) devise some quite enterprising methods to enable their charges to avoid the pursuing Nazis - a cunning wheeze involving funeral cortèges being a successful example. The frustrated Bosch are not going to give up, though, and soon the net tightens around the courageous pair as "Capt. von Weber" (Kurt Kreuger) begins to smell a rat. The dialogue is a …

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