ID

FBW000113      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1942

Original Title

Reunion in France / Reunion

Other Title(s)

Reunion Mademoiselle France [VT-GB]

Directed by

Jules Dassin

Produced by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) (Loew's, Inc.), Culver City, CA (New York, NY)

Staff

Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; Script: Jan Lustig, Marvin Borowsky, Charles Hoffman, Marc Connelly; Original story: Ladislas Bus-Fekete; Camera: Robert H. Planck; Special optical effects: Warren Newcombe; Editing: Elmo Vernon; Sound: Douglas Shearer; Art direction: Cedric Gibbons; Costumes: Irene (=Vorname); Music: Frank Waxman

Cast

Joan Crawford (Michèle de la Becque); John Wayne (Pat Talbot); Philip Dorn (Robert Cortot); Reginald Owen (Schultz); Albert Bassermann (Gen. Hugo Schroeder); John Carradine (Ulrich Windler); Ann Ayars (Juliette); J. Edward Bromberg (Durand); Moroni Olson (Paul Grebeau); Henry Daniell (Emile Fleuron); Arthur Space (Henker); Howard da Silva (Anton Stregel); Charles E. Arnt (Honore); Morris Ankrum (Martin); Edith Evanson (Genevieve); Ernst Deutsch (Captain); Margaret Laurence (Clothilde); Odette Myrtil (Mme. Montanot); Peter Whitney (Soldier with Candy); Ann Codee (Rosalie); Oliver Blake (Hypolite); Natlie Schaefer (als: Natalie Schafer) (Frau Schroder); George Travell (Jeannot); Michael Visaroff (Vigouroux); Felix Basch (Pawnbroker); Paul Weigel (Old Man); John W. Considine, Jr. (Little Boy); Claudia Drake (Girl); Peter Leeds (Boy); Barbara Bedford (Mme. Vigouroux); Basil Bockasta (Delivery Boy); Henry Kolker (Gen. Bartholomae); George Calliga (Mons. Bertheil); Harry Adams (Mons. Clemens); Larry Grenier (Mons. de Brun); Ed Rickard (Chauffeur); Philip Van Zandt (Customer); Louis Mercier (Conductor); Jean Del Val (Porter); Lester Sharpe (Warden); Adolph Milar (Gestapo Agent); Carl Ekberg (Soldier); Hans Fuerberg (Soldier); William Edmunds (Driver); Arno Frey (Guide); Joel Friedkin (Frenchman); Wilda Bieber (Little Girl); Rodney Bieber (Little Boy); Greta Keller (Baroness von Steinkamp); Walter O. Stahl (Baron von Steinkamp); Doris Borodin (Saleslady); Jody Gilbert (Brunhilde); Jack Zeller (Young Man); Adolf Edgar Licho (Hawker); Jacqueline White (Danielle); Bob Stevenson (Emile); Gayne Whitman (Maitre d'Hotel); George Aldwin (Pilot); Ray de Ravenne (Bartender); Eddie Lee ( Japanese); Tommy Lee (Japanese); Muriel Barr (Girl In Cafe); Norma Thelan (Girl In Cafe); Ava Gardner (Girl)

Length

104'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 02 Dec 1942: US release date

Abstract

Paris under German occupation. Michèle de la Becque is a career-minded Frenchwoman who lives in luxurious comfort with her fiance, industrial designer Robert Cortot. When the German troops march into the City of Light, de la Becque finds her mansion taken over by the Nazis and turned into a coal allotment bureau. Her suspicions are raised when she finds that Cortot has managed to keep his possessions. Believing that he is a Nazi collaborator, she confronts him. When he does not deny the charge, she leaves him and meets the desperate American RAF pilot Pat Talbot who has been shot down and is now being hunted by the Gestapo. She offers to shelter him, and they soon fall in love. After an escape attempt by Talbot fails, de la Becque turns to Cortot for help. He arranges safe passage to the South of France. After complications Talbot reaches safety. It is then that de la Becque learns that Cortot is actually working for the Resistance. Talbot returns to London and the RAF, and de la Becque heads back to Cortot to continue the fight for freedom.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US)

Bibliography

- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987