Joan of Paris

Joan of Paris is a 1942 war film about five Royal Air Force pilots shot down over Nazioccupied France during World War II and their attempt to escape to England. It stars Michle Morgan, Paul Henreid, Thomas Mitchell and Laird Cregar.

In Paris, Paul contacts an old teacher of his, Father Antoine Thomas Mitchell, who agrees to hide the reunited men in the sewers underneath his cathedral. Baby Alan Ladd has been shot in the shoulder along the way. When he slumps over in the church, it attracts the attention of a Gestapo agent Alexander Granach. Paul manages to distract him, allowing Baby to slip away, but then the German starts following Paul. Paul tries to hide in a caf, where he is served by Joan Michle Morgan, but the agent finds him. In his haste to get away, the airman tears the sleeve of Joans dress. He then enters the first unlocked room he finds in a nearby building. By chance, it is Joans. She discovers him hiding in her closet when she goes to change. To allay her fears, he tells her that Father Antoine sent him to give her enough money to buy a new dress. He persuades her to deliver a message to Father Antoine, describing his predicament. As they begin working together, they fall in love.Later, Paul gets Father Antoine to visit a British spy John Abbott who has been caught and is to be executed. The priest is able to overcome the doomed mans suspicions and obtains the name of a contact, schoolteacher Mademoiselle Rosay May Robson. Because the church is being watched by the persistent Gestapo agent, Father Antoine asks the unsuspected Joan to meet Rosay. However, on the way there, she passes the shop where she bought her new garment. A second Gestapo man an uncredited Hans Conreid has traced the bank note she used as payment to the robbed soldier and follows her. She and Mademoiselle Rosay barely escape capture. Rosay arranges for a seaplane to land at night on the Seine River to pick up the men. ........

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