Joan of Paris (1942)

Directed by

Robert Stevenson

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Five Royal Air Force pilots are shot down over Nazi-occupied France and try to escape to England. A French woman helps them while risking her own life.

wartimetensemelancholicslow-burnsuspensefuldramaticsomberheroic

What happens

Joan of Paris is a 1942 war film about five Royal Air Force pilots shot down over Nazi-occupied France during World War II and their attempt to escape to England. It stars Michèle Morgan and Paul Henreid, with Thomas Mitchell, Laird Cregar and May Robson in her last role. Joan of Paris marked the U.S. screen debuts of Austrian Henreid and Frenchwoman Morgan. Henreid had previously appeared in some British-American co-productions made in England and had starred on Broadway in the play Flight to the West as Paul von Hernreid. When he was signed with RKO in 1942, the studio changed his surname, dropping the "von" and changing his last name to "Henreid", the name he used for the rest of his film career. Cregar was borrowed from 20th-Century Fox. Alan Ladd, who played one of the downed airmen, was about to become a star. After his breakthrough starring role in This Gun for Hire (1942), Joan of Paris was re-released with Ladd more prominently featured. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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