Rating: - An hour goes by in this film before we even see this train
Having watched---and been quite enamored with Margaret Lockwood in "The Lady Vanishes" (3/4 of which takes place over rails), and having been impressed by that film's plot, dialogue, and direction I decided to board "The Night Train to Munich" so to speak, so as to continue the journey. Contrary to others herein, I cannot say that such was a wise decision on my part: First of all the quality of this film's recording is rather poor which doesn't help matters. Margaret Lockwood's role pales in comparison herein too; as this film is really one without a leading lady's role, notwithstanding Ms. Lockwood's talents. She was wonderful in Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes," but here has just not been given enough material to work with. (It's interesting to think that while "The Lady Vanishes" title is not at all suggestive of being set aboard a train, "The Night Train to Munich" declaratively promotes this notion---notwithstanding ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful WWII Thriller By Carol Reed
While this is one of Carol Reed's first-class movies, it also owes a lot to Alfred Hitchcock and The Lady Vanishes. It was written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, who also wrote Lady, and the co-star is Margaret Lockwood, who also starred in The Lady Vanishes. The movie is a wonderful WWII chase film, with excellent performances by Lockwood, Paul Henreid and, especially, Rex Harrision.
Professor Bomasch, a Czech scientist who has discovered a new kind of armor, and his daughter, Anna (Lockwood), flee their country for Britain one step ahead of Nazi agents. The professor makes it but his daughter is captured and sent to a concentration camp. A fellow inmate, Karl Marsen (Henreid), befriends her and they manage to escape and make their way across the channel. Anna searches for her father and is directed to a seedy boardwalk song man, Gus Bennett (Harrision), who is in fact a British agent charged with protecting ... Read More
Rating: - An enjoyable, antiquated spy thriller from WWII
An enjoyable, antiquated spy thriller from the early days of World War Two. England was already at war with Germany when this came out 1940, although the action is set on the very day that England and France declared war, following the German invasion of Poland, in 1939. Carol Reed directs and Rex Harrison stars as a devil-may-care English agent who slips into Germany to rescue a Czech scientist and his attractive daughter from a jackbooted, ruthless Gestapo agent, played by Paul Henreid (of course!). The film mixes offbeat comedy with suspense, buoying British spirits by poking fun at German officiousness and rigidity. One notable feature of this film is the second appearance of the team of Basil Radford and Naughton Wayne as the plucky, train-riding upper-class twits, Charters & Caldicott -- the same roles they played in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes." The Charters & Caldicott duo appeared in several films, ... Read More
Rating: - Terrible video of a great film
The framing of the film is completely off. There is a black bar across the top of the screen indicating that when they transferred it to VHS, they didn't have it just right. It's extremely distracting.
The film itself is wonderful. Tense, exciting, interesting... I highly recommend you finding a different release and enjoying it.
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