Gregory Ratoff — Director (5)
Paris Underground (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Paris Underground
other title: Paris--Underground / A Parigi nell'ombra
Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory. The screenplay was based on the true wartime activities of Etta Shiber, who engineered the escape of nearly 300 Allied pilots. British fans of comedienne Gracie Fields were put off by the scenes in which she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period.
Day-time Wife (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Day-time Wife
director: Gregory Ratoff actor: Tyrone Power / Linda Darnell
other title: Moglie di giorno / Dîner d'affaires
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
Moss Rose (1947) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Moss Rose
director: Gregory Ratoff actor: Peggy Cummins / Victor Mature
other title: Rose tragiche / La Rose du crime
When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a lady.
Song of Russia (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Song of Russia
director: Gregory Ratoff actor: Robert Taylor / Susan Peters
American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city tour. Along the way, they see happy, healthy, smiling, free Soviet citizens, blissfully living the Communist dream. This bliss is destroyed by the German invasion.