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Plot

Made just before America's entry into World War II, Paris Calling is one of the earliest French Underground adventures. When the German march into Paris, a polyglot of French patriots organize to undermine the Nazi occupation troops (represented by Lee J. Cobb, who plays his character with a surprising amount of depth). Elizabeth Bergner plays a French aristocrat who learns that her ex-fiance (Basil Rathbone) is a collaborator; she agrees to help the Underground, even unto killing her former lover. Gale Sondergaard, normally a villain, is sympathetically cast as a blowsy waterfront entertainer whose waterfront dive serves as Resistance headquarters. And how do the neutral Americans figure into all of this? Yankee-doodle-dandy Randolph Scott parachutes into view as a pilot for the RAF.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Drama,War
Run Time:
93min.
Distributor(s):
Universal
Director(s):
Edwin L. Marin
Starring:
Elisabeth Bergner , Randolph Scott , Basil Rathbone , Gale Sondergaard , Lee J. Cobb
Themes:
Life Under Occupation
Tone:
Earnest,Forceful,Gritty,Rousing,Tense
Keywords:
America,France,Germany,Nazism,assassination,barnstorming,betrayal,enemy,fighter,killing,love,lover,movement [action],resistance,socialite,underground [counterculture],war