- Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
- Directors: Carol Reed
- Writers: Frank Launder, Gordon Wellesley, Sidney Gilliat
- Producers: Edward Black
- Language French
- Classification: Exempt
- VHS Release Date: 14 April 2003
- Run Time: 90 minutes
- ASIN: B00009PBJR
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 26,757 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Superb WW II espionage thriller
16 Oct 2002
First, the bad news. I have seen two VHS versions of this superb film circulating, but both are of exceedingly low quality. I could be wrong, but I believe that at the moment there is not a first rate version of this film available in any format. We stand in great need of a fully restored DVD version of this film. The available VHS version looks scratched and poorly focused. It is still enjoyable, but one has the illusion of watching a bad print in the wee hours of the morning.
On one level, this film is a sort of remake of Hitchcock's THE LADY VANISHES. The parallels to the latter are especially strong, and not at all accidental. The screenplays for both THE LADY VANISHES and NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH were written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. Furthermore, Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford recreated their delightful characters Charters and Caldicott, two British twits who nearly stole the show in THE LADY VANISHES. Although they don't make quite the impact in this film that they did in THE LADY VANISHES, their presence nonetheless adds considerably to the film. The female protagonist is portrayed by Margaret Lockwood, who was also in the Hitchcock film. New to the Carol Reed film are an utterly delightful (as usual) Rex Harrison and Paul Henreid. Like THE LADY VANISHES, much of the film takes place on the European continent on a train, and the male hero in each film has a career that involves to some degree music.
NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH is not, however, as good as THE LADY VANISHES. The difference isn't in the cast and the script but in the directors. In a suspense film of this kind, Hitchcock would shame any competitor, and both his touch with suspense and with comedy (elements dominant in both films) exceeds that of the otherwise quite gifted Carol Reed. If the two films did not resemble each other so sharply, one would not feel compelled to compare the two.
Nonetheless, taken on its own terms, NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH is a first rate film, and anyone watching it will have a thoroughly good time. While Hitchcock makes THE LADY VANISHES a better film, Rex Harrison brings a degree of charm and elegance that is unique. This film, in fact, affords Harrison with one of the better roles of his career. All in all, it is hard to imagine someone not having a great time watching this movie. This will be ever truer when someone provides a good, fresh, restored copy of the film on DVD.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
British WW2 Espionage
9 Nov 2002
Night Train to Munich is a hopelessly outdated yet watchable British 1940 flick made at the precipice of the commencement of World War 2. Rex Harrison plays a somewhat miscast British agent posing as a German major in an attempt to rescue Margaret Lockwood and her father a Czech industrialist from the clutches of the Nazis. The father played by James Harcourt is the inventor of a revolutionary form of armor plating that the Nazis are desperate to procure. Paul Henreid of Casablanca fame gives a notable performance as a treacherous Gestapo captain scheming to coerce the military secrets from the inventor.
The film possesses that hokey quality of those of that era, however Carol Reed was a talented director and tells the story well with a minimum of wartime propaganda.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Terrible video of a great film
9 Feb 2003
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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