Joan of Paris

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 starred Michèle Morgan, Paul Henreid, Thomas Mitchell and Laird Cregar. The film also contains a performance from Alan Ladd soon before he hit superstardom later that year. Roy Webb was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score. In German-occupied Paris, an announcer reports during a blackout that the Second Front has begun, with British forces invading the Continent, and that five Royal Air Force fighters... have been shot down. The downed pilots split up and make their way to Paris to try to arrange their escape back to England. On the way, they break into a tavern in search of civilian clothes. When a German soldier shows up for a drink, Squadron Leader Paul Lavallier , a member of the Free French, knocks him out and takes his money. In Paris, Paul contacts an old teacher of his, Father Antoine , who agrees to hide the reunited men in the sewers underneath his cathedral. "Baby" , one of the others, has been shot in the shoulder along the way.
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