Saturday, June 8, 2013
Night Train To Munich (1940)
NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH (1940) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Carol Reed
Rex Harrison, Margaret Lockwood, Paul von Henreid,
Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Felix Aylmer
On the eve of World War Two, a British agent slips into Germany, where he poses as a Nazi officer to help a scientist and his daughter escape across the border to Switzerland. A polished, smartly crafted thriller, with the future Henry Higgins affecting his usual easy-going arrogance as the spy. Wayne and Radford as Caldicott and Charters, the comic-relief cricket fanatics from "The Lady Vanishes", play a much more significant role in the outcome here.