Would pair greatly with Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. It's also a very good WW2 thriller.

Would pair greatly with Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. It's also a very good WW2 thriller.

Perhaps a bit reductive to say this felt quite reminiscent of Hitchcock around this period (though there is a direct connection between this and The Lady Vanishes in the reappearance of Charters and Caldicott and Margaret Lockwood) but this has more than enough suspense, dry wit, and political intrigue to make the comparison apt. Released nine months after Britain declared war on Germany, Night Train to Munich is a solid, by-the-books spy thriller about double crossing and a MacGuffin that both the Nazis and England desperately want to keep. There's plenty of wartime snipes about freedom and the Nazi party and even a surprising inclusion of a concentration camp. Carol Reed would eventually direct some of the most visually stunning film noirs of the decade though here everything feels a bit more like wartime propaganda than anything else. But I will admit that I was invested the entire time, thanks especially to Rex Harrison's charming performance as our heroic British agent and Paul Henreid as his dastardly counterpart. Absolutely flies by and each scene is injected with enough intrigue to keep you hooked.

Perhaps a bit reductive to say this felt quite reminiscent of Hitchcock around this period (though there is a direct connection between this and The Lady Vanishes in the reappearance of Charters and Caldicott and Margaret Lockwood) but this has more than enough suspense, dry wit, and political intrigue to make the comparison apt. Released nine months after Britain declared war on Germany, Night Train to Munich is a solid, by-the-books spy thriller about double crossing and a MacGuffin that both the Nazis and England desperately want to keep. There's plenty of wartime snipes about freedom and the Nazi party and even a surprising inclusion of a concentration camp. Carol Reed would eventually direct some of the most visually stunning film noirs of the decade though here everything feels a bit more like wartime propaganda than anything else. But I will admit that I was invested the entire time, thanks especially to Rex Harrison's charming performance as our heroic British agent and Paul Henreid as his dastardly counterpart. Absolutely flies by and each scene is injected with enough intrigue to keep you hooked.

The Caldicott & Charters Cinematic Universe doesn't fail to entertain again!

The Caldicott & Charters Cinematic Universe doesn't fail to entertain again!

This is a comedy apparently. Is it a comedy? The IMDb genre states comedy but nothing funny really seemed to happen. Tege btire film has a more serious time but when two comic relief characters are introduced it makes the entire thing very awkward and very uninteresting to watch. The beginning is well structured and there are great sequences but the tone was lost in translation.

This is a comedy apparently. Is it a comedy? The IMDb genre states comedy but nothing funny really seemed to happen. Tege btire film has a more serious time but when two comic relief characters are introduced it makes the entire thing very awkward and very uninteresting to watch. The beginning is well structured and there are great sequences but the tone was lost in translation.

this movie doesn't age well. it's understandable why it's been forgotten though. The concentration camps and nazi presence had dangerously evolved into what we now know. so the lightly written romance in a concentration camp seems out of touch and insensitive.

however the pacing is insanely well done. the scope of the story is immense and the pace helps it a lot to achieve what it needs to be.

a dark and witty crime thriller with sometimes tongue and cheek sexual innuendos.

this movie doesn't age well. it's understandable why it's been forgotten though. The concentration camps and nazi presence had dangerously evolved into what we now know. so the lightly written romance in a concentration camp seems out of touch and insensitive.

however the pacing is insanely well done. the scope of the story is immense and the pace helps it a lot to achieve what it needs to be.

a dark and witty crime thriller with sometimes tongue and cheek sexual innuendos.