Night Train to Munich, written by the same team that was responsible for Hitcocks The Lady Vanishes (Frank Launder en Sidney Gilliat), is an exciting spy/action thriller.
The story is set at the beginning of the second world war. The nazis are interested in a scientist who is developing special armor plating and they decide to track him down.
The manage to locate him, but are just too late as he escapes to England. His daughter isn’t as lucky and ends up in a concentration camp.
You’d expect that for a big part of the movie she would be in the camp, but I was surprised how quickly she manages to escape and get on the way to her father. Despite the escape the German do not give up and the father and daughter end up in some unexpected situations.
I really liked seeing scale models being used (for example one of the concentration camp or of the train). It gave the movie some charming quality. The film isn’t very realistic in some respect as there is a fire fight where a pistol is shot tens of times without any reloading. Another example are two British citizens who travel through Germany freely.
It’s a good movie, especially because of the unexpected twists. Especially during the first part of the movie there are a lot of surprises and the second part heightens the suspense. I didn’t have high expectations of this film, but was pleasantly surprised.
Score: 9
[“Another example are two British citizens who travel through Germany freely.”]
The movie ends on the very day World War II starts. This is not that surprising.
Good point!