Academy Awards, USA 1946
| Nominated Oscar | Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Alexander Tansman |
Adelphi Films (UK)
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Image Entertainment)
American Constance Bennett and British Emmeline Quayle are living in Paris as the Germans march on the city. They join the mass exodus but get stuck in a traffic jam, so take a side road where they end up at a friendly country inn. The innkeeper is harboring a downed British pilot, and the two ladies decide to sneak him back to Paris. They arrange to smuggle him out of the country, an experience they find so gratifying they decide to stay behind and help more escape. This goes on for a couple of years, until the Germans finally trap and arrest them. Luckily the Americans arrive just in time to liberate the city and the prisoners. Despite the subject matter it's a leisurely paced, almost comic, story of two of the more unlikely members of the Paris underground.
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