Paris Underground (1945)
SENSATIONAL! REVEALING! Amazing story that tears the veil of secrecy from terrors of occupied Paris!
97 min
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
- October 18, 1945
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Constance Bennett as Kitty de Mornay
- Gracie Fields as Emmeline Quayle
- Jorge Rigaud as Andre de Mornay
- Kurt Kreuger as Capt. Kurt von Weber
- Leslie Vincent as Lt. William Gray
- Charles Andre as Father Dominique
- Eily Malyon as Madame Martin
- Vladimir Sokoloff as Undertaker
- Richard Ryen as Mons. Renard
- Gregory Gaye as Tissier
Crew
- Gregory Ratoff · Director
- Etta Shiber · Writer
- Boris Ingster · Writer
- Gertrude Purcell · Writer
- Ann Dupre · Writer
- Constance Bennett · Producer
- Alexander Tansman · Composer
- Lee Garmes · Cinematographer
- Hanson T. Fritch · Editor
- James E. Newcom · Editor
- Nicolai Remisoff · Production designer