Paris Underground

Release Date: 1945-10-18

Overview: 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.

Rating: 5.4 / 10

Cast

Constance Bennett

as Kitty de Mornay

Gracie Fields

as Emmeline Quayle

George Rigaud

as Andre de Mornay

Kurt Kreuger

as Capt. Kurt von Weber

Eily Malyon

as Madame Martin

Crew

Gregory Ratoff - Director
Drew Tetrick - Wardrobe Coordinator
Alexander Tansman - Original Music Composer
John R. Carter - Sound
Gertrude Purcell - Screenplay

Reviews

CinemaSerf:

This is quite a quirky and entertaining story of two unlikely ladies who decide to help smuggle allied airmen out of France during WWII. "Kitty de Mornay" (Constance Bennett) a determined American and...