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Worst World War II Movies Ever, Part Two: Is Paris Burning?Perhaps one of the most disappointing war epics of the 1960s is French director Rene Clement's 1966 adaptation of Is Paris Burning?, a book about the liberation of the French capital in August of 1944.
As often happens when one movie's success inspires filmmakers to get on the genre gravy train, the results ranged from the sublime (The Great Escape) to the ridiculously inept (Midway, Battle of the Bulge), with fair-to-middling pictures such as Battle of Britain and Tora! Tora! Tora! dominating the middle ground.
Perhaps one of the most disappointing war epics of the 1960s is French director Rene Clement's 1966 adaptation of Is Paris Burning?, Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre's non-fiction book about the liberation of the French capital in August of 1944.
Like Darryl F. Zanuck's TheLongest Day, Clement's movie seeks to be historically factual while getting the various narrative strands to weave a cohesive tapestry centering on the French resistance's attempt to get the advancing Allies to liberate Paris before the German garrison's commander, Gen. Von Choltitz (Gerd Frobe) razes the city in accordance to Adolf Hitler's insane and inhumane wishes.
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The French, particularly Free French leader Gen. Charles De Gaulle, are obviously keen to wrest the City of Lights from the grip of the hated boche after more than four years of occupation, but the Allies, which have just broken out of the Normandy beachhead and into the French interior, have no intention of diverting large numbers of troops, vehicles, and supplies to capture Paris.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, is concerned because not only would a major battle for Paris destroy much of the city, but badly needed supplies - fuel, food, water, and medicine - would be needed for the millions who live in the city.
But when the French Resistance informs the Allies that the Germans are planning to blow up the city, Eisenhower realizes that a sound military decision to bypass Paris will be seen as a blunder if he doesn't act quickly, so in late August he agrees to send a corps that includes the French Second Armored Division to grab the city before the Germans set off the thousands of explosives they have planted under every bridge, government building, monument, and even the Louvre Museum.
All of this makes for good drama, of course, and if Darryl F. Zanuck had bought the Collins-Lapierre book and filmed Is Paris Burning? a la The Longest Day - with a good script, three directors and each nationality speaking in its own language, Clement's movie might have worked.
Instead, Is Paris Burning? is a prime example of a rambling narrative that makes the viewer strain his or her brain; one is never really sure of where events are taking place unless it's in the city itself, and even then things are horribly muddled.
The movie also has a tendency to appease the three major countries involved in the film's production, starting with the Americans, who hired a French director but were catering to a huge domestic audience in the U.S. Unwisely believing that having the Germans speak in German and the French in...well, French and use subtitles, the producers decided to dub Is Paris Burning? in an all-English dialog track. Bad move. Not only can one tell that the lip movements don't match the sounds, but the sense of 'you are there' vanishes completely.
The Germans, too, had to be catered to, because by 1966 the West Germans were a NATO ally and therefore films had to differentiate between 'good' Germans like von Choltitz and 'bad' Germans like Hitler (who was, of course, really Austrian).
The French, naturally, got the lion's share of the kid-glove treatment, if for no other reason that Is Paris Burning? was made with the full collaboration of the French government, then headed by Charles De Gaulle. That meant whitewashing French history to erase any hint of collaboration or passive acceptance of German occupation among the populace of Paris and, by extension, the rest of France. Here, every Jean, Paul, Henri, and Marie is a dedicated anti-boche fighter willing to lay down his or her life pour labelle France, ignoring the fact that many people did collaborate with the Third Reich.
But even those flaws pale in comparison to the biggest problem that plagues most 'all-star cast' war epics - the casts themselves.
Ideally, a fact-based film should draw its audience in by focusing attention on the events taking place onscreen without viewers seeing a favorite star and thinking oh my gosh, there's Robert Stack! Movie stars, after all, seek to stand out above the crowds and often don't blend in with the setting and situation. Even when their segments on a big war film last only two minutes or so, they tend to act like 'stars,' hamming it up and often refusing to alter their appearance to resemble the historical character they are portraying.
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Glenn Ford, who at the time was a captain in the Navy Reserve, summoned his military bearing to take the role of Gen. Omar Bradley, but he doesn't look like a schoolteacher-general from Missouri; he looks like Glenn Ford, for Pete's sake. So instead of Is Paris Burning? a believable semi-documentary that blends 1966 footage with actual combat clips of the 1944 battle, it becomes a game of Spot the Big Name Actor in a Hollywood version of Where's Waldo?
Look! There's Charles Boyer! Whoa! Is that barmaid Simone Signoret? Who's driving that tank down that Paris boulevard? Why, it's Yves Montand! And the GI with that bazooka....the guy who looks like Norman Bates? Don't tell me it's Anthony Perkins! (Even more ridiculous was casting Kirk Douglas - with no baldness but with the trademark dimpled chin - as George S. Patton.)
Although Is Paris Burning? does have a few well-done action set pieces, it is too flawed and slow-paced to grab even the most ardent World War II film buff.
Jean-Paul Belmondo ... Pierrelot/Yves Morandat
Charles Boyer ... Docteur Monod Leslie Caron ... Françoise Labé Jean-Pierre Cassel ... Lieutenant Henri Karcher George Chakiris ... GI in Tank Bruno Cremer ... Colonel Rol Tanguy Claude Dauphin ... Colonel Lebel Alain Delon ... Jacques Chaban-Delmas Kirk Douglas ... Gen. George S. Patton Jr. Pierre Dux ... Cerat/Alexandre Parodi Glenn Ford ... Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley Gert Fröbe ... General Dietrich von Choltitz Daniel Gélin ... Yves Bayet Georges Géret ... Baker/Le boulanger Hannes Messemer ... General Jodl Harry Meyen ... Lieutenant von Arnim Yves Montand ... Sgt. Marcel Bizien/Sergent tankiste Anthony Perkins ... Sgt. Warren Michel Piccoli ... Edgar Pisani Wolfgang Preiss ... Ebernach Directed by
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