Reunion in France (1942)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.0/10   

Director:

Jules Dassin

Escritores:

Leslie Bush-Fekete (story)
Jan Lustig (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

25 diciembre 1942 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Romance | Guerra

Frase comercial:

WHAT A THRILL! Startling drama of a stranded Yankee flyer and a Parisian beauty!

Plot:

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer...

Plot Keywords:

Nazi | Paris | Hotel | Train | Gestapo

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Getting The Duke Out Of France

Reparto

Joan Crawford	...	Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque
John Wayne	...	Pat Talbot
Philip Dorn	...	Robert Cortot
Reginald Owen	...	Schultz, Gestapo agent. assumed name of Pinkum
Albert Bassermann	...	General Hugo Schroeder
John Carradine	...	Ulrich Windler, head of Gestapo in Paris
Anne Ayars	...	Juliette Pinot (as Ann Ayars)
J. Edward Bromberg	...	Durand, a French policeman
Moroni Olsen	...	Paul Grebeau
Henry Daniell	...	Emile Fleuron
Howard Da Silva	...	Anton Stregel, Gestapo agent
Charles Arnt	...	Honore, Robert's butler
Morris Ankrum	...	Martin
Edith Evanson	...	Genevieve
Ernst Deutsch	...	Captain occupying Michelle's house (as Ernest Dorian)

También conocida como:

Mademoiselle France (UK)
Reunion
Reunión en Francia (Venezuela) [es]

Duración:

104 min | USA:99 min (Turner library print)

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Alemán

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Clasificación:

Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #8877) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Compañía:

Loew's

Trivialidades:

Keenan Wynn was listed in an early production chart as a cast member, and Hans Conried was in a news item as a cast member, but neither were in the final release print.

Citas:

Martin: The bedroom suite is this way.
Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque: Wait. Martin, you've known me for a long time.
Martin: When you were very little, you wanted to marry me so that you could always have chocolate pudding.
Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque: At my first ball, it was you who fastened my dress when it came undone.
Martin: Such memories belong to another lifetime, mademoiselle. One which has come to an end. And which, unfortunately, some of us have outlived.
Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque: But why have our lifetimes come to an end, our private little worlds?

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Xtro (1983)

Banda de Sonido:

Concerto for Violin in D Minor

Getting The Duke Out Of France

Reunion in France finds Joan Crawford as an upper class French woman happily engaged to industrialist Philip Dorn and confident that the French army will defend the Maginot Line and the Germans will be defeated once they make a move west. Of course history and the film both tell us it didn't work out that way.

When she arrives back in Paris because she's away in the country when the surrender happens, she finds that the Germans have taken over her house to use as office space, but they've permitted her to occupy one room on the ground level with its own entrance to the street.

That's a minor inconvenience compared to when she learns that her fiancé is collaborating with the Nazis.

Around that time a young flier with the RAF Eagle Squadron, John Wayne, accosts her in the street and gets her to take him in. He's escaped from Nazi custody and looking to get back to Great Britain.

This is a minor film in the credits of both John Wayne and Joan Crawford in there one and only film together. Crawford was being slowly eased out at MGM and she knew it. Still she was a professional if nothing else and gives the role her best. The part called for her to look chic and those Adrian gowns were in play again.

John Wayne doesn't even get into the film until almost 40 minutes into the story. When he does get in, even though he makes a play for Crawford, the Duke has some real problems as Crawford in order to help him has to play up to Dorn and his Nazi friends. It's not the John Wayne we're used to because it really isn't his film.

There's been some criticism by other reviewers that Crawford doesn't sound French. Then again neither does anyone else in the film. The rest of the cast. The cast in fact has a variety of European and American accents, Frenchmen weren't in good supply at that point in Hollywood, either that or they were otherwise committed. Surely Crawford was no more French sounding than Humphrey Bogart in Passage to Marseille.

Albert Basserman is the commanding general in Paris and the fellow who Dorn cultivates. John Carradine may be the best one in the film as the Gestapo agent who knows there's something fishy with Crawford, but can't quite prove it.

Both the Duke and Joan Crawford had better days ahead of them. Still the film is a curiosity and worth a look.