ID

FBW001270      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1945

Original Title

Paris Underground

Other Title(s)

Madame Pimpernel [VT,GB]

Directed by

Gregory Ratoff

Produced by

United Artists Corp., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Script: Boris Ingster, Gertrude Purcell; Script contributor: Nina Borget; Based on: Etta Shiber (Novel); Camera: Lee Garmes; Editing: James E. Newcom; Art direction: Victor Greene; Production design: Nicolai Remisoff; Set decoration: Sydney Moore; Costumes: Travis Banton; Musical direction: Alexander Tansman; Musical arrangements: Alexander Tansman

Cast

Constance Bennett (Kitty de Mornay); Dame Gracie Fields (Emmyline Quayle); Georges Rigaud (Andre de Mornay); Kurt Kreuger (Capt. Kurt von Weber); Charles Andre (Father Dominique); Leslie Vincent (Lt. William Gray); Eily Malyon (Mme. Bengler); Gregory Gaye (Tissier); Dick Ryan (M. Renard); Adrienne d'Ambricourt (Margot); Vladimir Sokoloff (Undertaker); Roland Varno (Lt. Cmdr. Stowe); Andrew V. McLaglen (Sgt. McNair); Andre Charlot; Harry Hayes Morgan; Dina Smyrnova; Otto Reichow; Fred Giermann; Erich von Morhardt; Art Miles; Marcel de la Brosse; Anthony Warde; Georgette Rhodes; Peter Kooy; Loulette Sablon; Reska Law; Reni Revel; Ray de Ravenne; Rene Mimieux

Length

97'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

The film focuses on the lives of two women in France during the Nazi occupation. Their lives appear to be very sedate on the outside, but both are actually heavily involved with the French underground. The women are captured and on the brink of being killed, then all of a sudden they're being rescued by American forces.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US); Occupation zone; France; Women; Rescue; USA; Resistance fighters

Bibliography

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