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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303934877
ISBN: 6303934870
Label: Madacy Records
Manufacturer: Madacy Records
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Madacy Records
Release Date: September 19, 1997
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 8910
Studio: Madacy Records
Theatrical Release Date: December 29, 1940
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The unofficial sequel to The Lady Vanishes (also scripted by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat) attempts to recapture the thrills of Hitchcock's charming confection of espionage and romance with generally fine results. Margaret Lockwood reprises her role as the flighty heroine, now the daughter of a Czech scientist captured by the Nazis as her father leaves the country. She escapes from a concentration camp with the help of a defiant male prisoner (Paul Henreid) and rejoins her father, only to be kidnapped back by the Germans, and then... Well, you get the idea. Rex Harrison costars as a seaside crooner who turns out to be a resourceful British Secret Service agent, whose stiff upper lip and school wit are handled with smiling aplomb. The headlong plot tosses the characters back and forth across the continent so rapidly the actors have little room to breath life into their roles, and director Carol Reed lacks Hitchcock's deftness and light touch, but Harrison's cocky, effusive charm helps enormously. Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne re-create their roles as blasé British tourists (when Britain declares war they, deep in the heart of Germany, worry about cricket and their golf clubs left behind in Berlin: 'I'll never replace those,' Radford mourns). Reed would find his stride after the war with such accomplished thrillers as Odd Man Out and The Third Man. In light of those classics, Night Train to Munich is an inconsistent but wholly entertaining lark. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
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 ... 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), ... 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 andRex 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, ruthlessGestapo agent, played by Paul Henreid (of course!).The film ... 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.
Rating: - British WW2 Espionage
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 ... Read More
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