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Reunion in France

  • 19421942
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 44m
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Reunion in France (1942)
In German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers.
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In German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers.In German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers.In German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers.
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1.8K
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    • Jules Dassin
  • Writers
    • Jan Lustig(screen play)
    • Marvin Borowsky(screen play)
    • Marc Connelly(screen play)
  • Stars
    • Joan Crawford
    • John Wayne
    • Philip Dorn
    • Jules Dassin
  • Writers
    • Jan Lustig(screen play)
    • Marvin Borowsky(screen play)
    • Marc Connelly(screen play)
  • Stars
    • Joan Crawford
    • John Wayne
    • Philip Dorn
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 36User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
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    John Wayne and Joan Crawford in Reunion in France (1942)
    John Wayne, Frederic Brunn, Bobby Dillon, and Carl Ekberg in Reunion in France (1942)
    John Wayne, Joan Crawford, and Henry Daniell in Reunion in France (1942)
    John Wayne, Joan Crawford, Henry Daniell, and Bobby Dillon in Reunion in France (1942)
    John Wayne and Joan Crawford in Reunion in France (1942)
    John Wayne and Joan Crawford in Reunion in France (1942)
    Albert Bassermann in Reunion in France (1942)
    Ernst Deutsch in Reunion in France (1942)
    Joan Crawford and Philip Dorn in Reunion in France (1942)
    Joan Crawford in Reunion in France (1942)
    Joan Crawford in Reunion in France (1942)
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    Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford
    • Michele de la Becque
    John Wayne
    John Wayne
    • Pat Talbot
    Philip Dorn
    Philip Dorn
    • Robert Cortot
    Reginald Owen
    Reginald Owen
    • Schultz
    Albert Bassermann
    Albert Bassermann
    • General Hugo Schroeder
    John Carradine
    John Carradine
    • Ulrich Windler
    Ann Ayars
    Ann Ayars
    • Juliette
    J. Edward Bromberg
    J. Edward Bromberg
    • Durand
    Moroni Olsen
    Moroni Olsen
    • Paul Grebeau
    Henry Daniell
    Henry Daniell
    • Emile Fleuron
    Howard Da Silva
    Howard Da Silva
    • Anton Stregel
    • (as Howard da Silva)
    Charles Arnt
    Charles Arnt
    • Honoré
    Morris Ankrum
    Morris Ankrum
    • Martin
    Edith Evanson
    Edith Evanson
    • Genevieve
    Ernst Deutsch
    Ernst Deutsch
    • Captain
    • (as Ernest Dorian)
    Margaret Laurence
    • Clothilde
    Odette Myrtil
    Odette Myrtil
    • Mme. Montanot
    Peter Whitney
    Peter Whitney
    • Soldier
      • Jules Dassin
    • Writers
      • Jan Lustig(screen play)
      • Marvin Borowsky(screen play)
      • Marc Connelly(screen play)
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      Look quickly for Ava Gardner's one-line bit as a fashion salon assistant.
    • Quotes

      Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque: This is very pretty.

      Martin: There's an exceptional view of the city.

      Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque: I've seen Paris before.

      Martin: Not this Paris, mademoiselle.

      [Walking towards the door]

      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?

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      Featured in The John Wayne Anthology (1991)
    • Soundtracks
      La Marseillaise
      (uncredited)

      Composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

      [Variations played in the score throughout]

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    6/10
    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.
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      • December 25, 1942 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
      • German
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
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      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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