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Paris Underground

Paris Underground

SENSATIONAL! REVEALING! Amazing story that tears the veil of secrecy from terrors of occupied Paris!
Oct 18, 1945 1h 36m
5.4
5 votes

Synopsis

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.

Title Paris Underground
Companies United Artists, Constance Bennett Productions
Countries United States of America
Keywords estrangement
Constance Bennett

Constance Bennett

Kitty de Mornay
Gracie Fields

Gracie Fields

Emmeline Quayle
George Rigaud

George Rigaud

Andre de Mornay
Kurt Kreuger

Kurt Kreuger

Capt. Kurt von Weber
Eily Malyon

Eily Malyon

Madame Martin
Leslie Vincent

Leslie Vincent

Lt. William Gray
Charles Andre

Charles Andre

Father Dominique
Richard Ryen

Richard Ryen

Mons. Renard