Paris After Dark is a 1943 American war drama film directed by Léonide Moguy and starring George Sanders, Philip Dorn and Brenda Marshall.

[1] The portrayal of the resistance was modeled on the Communist-led Front National, possibly due to the influence of screenwriter Harold Buchman who was known for his left-wing views.

His girlfriend Colette runs a restaurant and has to pretend not to care when two of her German customers tell her about the murder.

Yvonne’s husband, Jean Blanchard, a former French soldier, is released from a German prison camp.

The German commander who is in charge of the factory decides to send the machines and most of the workers to Germany to cut down on the sabotage.

Later that night at home, George declares he’s going to leave France and go fight with De Gaulle.

He says he has talked to some friends and “they know people who will help us.” She is skeptical about the plan and says not to trust it if they are from the real Underground.

He watches from the window as a Gestapo agent leaves Luigi’s barbershop and follows George and his friends.

George and his friends are apprehended on the road and taken back to the factory where the workers have learned the Allies have landed in northern Africa and commenced a work stoppage.

George makes an inflammatory speech and is shot and killed by the Colonel Pirosh who has massed his soldiers to quell the protest at the factory.

Nurse Yvonne assists but, at one point, hands the doctor the wrong instrument, hoping to kill the patient.

Jean follows him there and has a fight with him, knocks him through the false door at the back of the closet, down the basement steps.

It belongs to everybody.” The Nazi colonel survives and demands all 50 of the workers should be killed unless they turn over the man who shot him.

The doctor says there is a British plane coming to take the leaders of the Underground to safety that night and Yvonne will be on it.