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Paris Calling

Paris Calling

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 4, 1941

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Action, Adventure, Romance, War, Thriller

User Score

52%

Original Title

Paris Calling

Production Companies

Charles K. Feldman Group, Universal Pictures

Director

Edwin L. Marin

Description

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...