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Paris Underground
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1hr 37min
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1945
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Image Entertainment
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 ... Full Synopsis
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Paris Underground is a moderately entertaining World War II resistance film, provided that one is willing to suspend one's disbelief to a substantial degree. For example, Underground would ask one to believe that the likes of Constance Bennett and Gracie Fields, appealing and likable though they may be, would be able to set up an entire underground network and smuggle out more than 250 people -- sometimes ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Emmyline Quayle
Capt. Kurt von Weber
Mme. Bangler
Father Dominique
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