Paris Underground
 
   

Director: Gregory Ratoff
Year:  1945
Rating: 6.0


AKA - Madame Pimpernel

This is at times a bit flat and slow but the rousing ending makes it overall an enjoyable little film. Produced by and starring Constance Bennett, it was released a month after the war with Germany had ended in 1945. Bennett (sister of Joan Bennett) and Gracie Field (who at one time was the highest paid entertainer in England) are stuck in Paris after the Germans take the city. Rather than leaving they decide to stay behind and smuggle out Allied flyers who have been shot down. Until the end it is fairly tension free but the ladies have great chemistry and are a pleasure to watch. Kurt Kreuger who over his acting career played loads of German officers or Nazi's gets the role of the swine Gestapo agent. Interesting in that Kreuger was in fact German but had moved to the USA not for political reasons but for acting ambitions.