Reunion in France is a 1942 American war film distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Joan Crawford, John Wayne, and Philip Dorn in a story about a woman in occupied France who, learning her well-heeled lover has German connections, aids a downed American flyer.

Michele de la Becque (Joan Crawford) is a career woman in love with industrial designer Robert Cortot (Philip Dorn).

After the Battle of France and subsequent German occupation, Michele discovers her fiancé is socializing with Nazi officers, including General Schroeder, the military commandant of Paris; and the SS Gruppenführer in charge of the Gestapo in the Greater Paris region.

She aids a downed American in the Eagle Squadron of the Royal Air Force, pilot Pat Talbot (John Wayne) from Pennsylvania.

"[2] Under the cover of a weekend trip to Fontainebleau, with Talbot disguised as her chauffeur, Michele brings him to a field in the country where a Lockheed Hudson patrol bomber will take him and two members of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) back to England.

The Germans drive away, Schroeder feeling vindicated that his friend is loyal to Germany, the SS officer disgusted because he has been made to look foolish.

Robert and Michele watch as the airplane, flying at the altitude of the con level, uses its contrail to write the word "COURAGE" in the sky over Paris for all to see.

"[citation needed] Years after making the movie, Joan Crawford was quoted as saying: "Oh God.