Is Paris Burning? Movie Review 1966

A spectacularly star-studded but far too sprawling account of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation. The script, in which seven writers had a hand, is based on Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre's best-seller.

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Available on VHS
Running time 173 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

World War II, France, Paris

Screenplay

Gore Vidal, Francis Ford Coppola

Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Jean-Pierre Cassel, George Chakiris, Claude Dauphin, Alain Delon, Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Gert Frobe, Daniel Gelin, E.G. Marshall, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins, Claude Rich, Simone Signoret, Robert Stack, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Vaneck, Orson Welles, Bruno Cremer, Suzy Delair, Michael (Michel) Lonsdale

Cinematography

Marcel Grignon

Director

Rene Clement

Music

Maurice Jarre

Producer

Transcontinental Pictures Industries, Paramount Pictures, Paul Graetz