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04/12/1941 Action, Adventure, Romance, War, Thriller, Drama 1h 35m
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ADVENTURE pounding to the beat of your heart!

Overview

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...

  1. Edwin L. Marin

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Elisabeth Bergner

    Marianne Jannetier

  2. Randolph Scott

    Flight Lt. Nicholas "Nick" Jordan

  3. Basil Rathbone

    Andre Benoit

  4. Eduardo Ciannelli

    Mouche, the bartender

  5. Gale Sondergaard

    Madame Colette

  6. Lee J. Cobb

    Captain Schwabe

  7. Charles Arnt

    Nazi Lt. Lantz

  8. William Edmunds

    'Professor', the bar owner

  9. Paul Leyssac

    Chief of Underground

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-01-05
"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 helps stranded American pilot "Nick" (Randolph Scott) with whom she soon falls in love, but somehow she also manages to arouse suspicions amongst her own camp that only a special m...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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