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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1945 DVD Release: 04/26/2005 Format: DVD - Black and White Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 37 mins Studio: Image Entertainment Members Wishing: 1 Genres: War, War Spy Film, Resistance Film

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 she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Gracie Fields - Emmyline Quayle
Kurt Kreuger - Capt. Kurt von Weber
Eily Malyon - Mme. Bangler
Charles Andre - Father Dominique