Elisabeth Bergner is a rich member of Parisian high society. Minister Basil Rathbone, who loves her, comes to her party to tell her that the Nazis will be in Paris that evening. Pack her stuff and head to her villa in the south of France. She starts out, but her mother is killed on the road, and she returns to Paris to join the Underground, and incidentally help downed RAF flier Randolph Scott.
This is the first movie I have seen Miss Bergner in that was not directed by her husband, Paul Czinner, and she gives half a good performance; as a society featherbrain she is fine, but her way of playing a serious woman is to be frozen-faced and speak her lines without emotion. Released three days before Pearl Harbor was attacked, the producers were joining the rest of Hollywood in offering propagandistic entertainment that supported the British and Free French, with an orchestral version of the Marseillaise to cap off the effort. However, despite some good actors in supporting roles, including Lee J. Cobb as a Nazi, Gale Sondergaard, and Elisabeth Risdon, this never exceeds programmer levels.
This is the first movie I have seen Miss Bergner in that was not directed by her husband, Paul Czinner, and she gives half a good performance; as a society featherbrain she is fine, but her way of playing a serious woman is to be frozen-faced and speak her lines without emotion. Released three days before Pearl Harbor was attacked, the producers were joining the rest of Hollywood in offering propagandistic entertainment that supported the British and Free French, with an orchestral version of the Marseillaise to cap off the effort. However, despite some good actors in supporting roles, including Lee J. Cobb as a Nazi, Gale Sondergaard, and Elisabeth Risdon, this never exceeds programmer levels.