Night Train to Munich

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Matthew D @OceanSage Mar 30 Fascinating to see the English perspective right as WWII broke out. Carol Reed’s romantic comedy spy thriller Night Train to Munich (1940) is a blast with cheeky British humor making fun of stuffy and cruel Nazis, while depicting the harsh changing world at the start of World War II as Germany had invaded Poland and occupied Czechoslovakia. Reed’s direction demonstrates how far reaching Adolf Hitler’s violent and hateful policies and beliefs had spread through Germany as well as how his invasions fundamentally changed the countries around him. Carol Reed accomplishes much with real footage of soldiers marching, neat mini models, heavy atmosphere, tense suspense, and a good sense of humor as he spoofs The Third Reich and espionage thrillers. Reed brings an English dry wit to his perilous film noir. Margaret Lockwood is lovely and fun as Anna Bomasch, the daughter of a Czech scientist working on new armor plating that would change the tides of the war for either side. See more Steve D @RT35616104 03/19/2024 Fine story clunky script See more acsdoug D @acsdoug 11/09/2023 A decent wartime thriller that does generate a decent amount of suspense. I'm not rating it higher because of the appearance of a couple of Englishmen that seemed rather contrived. See more 09/08/2021 The movie was made in Britain in 1940 and takes place in 1939, when Hitler's forces moved into Czechoslovakia. In Prague, there is an industrial scientist with a possible revolutionary method of armor plate whom the Nazis want to work for them, and British agents smuggle him out, but leave his daughter behind. She is taken to a concentration camp (when they were still prisons rather than centers of genocide) and escapes with another inmate and gets to Britain to reunite with her father. Unfortunately German agents are at work in Britain, and they are forced back to Germany. A British agent poses as a German army officer to try to get them back out. The movie is effective in showing the harshness and danger of the Nazi regime with relative subtlety (shown by the scenes of people in trouble for saying the wrong things), but it shows the Gestapo as being a little too careless and inept, and the scene with the mountain tram cars being rather unconvincing. Still entertaining as a period piece. See more 05/06/2019 A very light film, not unenjoyable but not great See more 11/08/2018 Lot's of plot holes by todays standards, but still retains some entertainment value See more Read all reviews

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