Don't bother Michele de la Becque with talk of war. War is for men who enjoy playing with tanks and planes all day. But the spoiled, high-society Parisian soon encounters a fugitive RAF pilot on the run from the Gestapo. And when she does, she'll discover something else: her own patriotism as she helps the airman escape his Nazi pursuers.

John Wayne is straight-up heroic mode as the pilot, and Joan Crawford (in haute couture despite the war) is Michele in this glossy, briskly-paced thriller. Philip Dorn plays Michele's fiancé, an industrialist she suspects of collaborating with the Germans - and, on that matter, another discovery awaits Michele.