NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH
M.G.
M.
[tz would have been easier to praise "Night Train to Munich" if the producers had not invited a direct comparison with "The Lady Vanishes." For it is
a spy thriller, dished up with Margaret Lockwood and Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne (the two English sporting "asses’’), and a considerable part of the action takes place on a train. The point is that "The Lady Vanishes" was done by Hitchcock. But it is uncharitable to make too close a survey of parellels. "Night Train to Munich" is a bright, exciting show, with Mr. Radford and Mr. Wayne supplying a good quota of comic relief. The picture opens with a Nazi pamphlet raid over Prague and the escape to England of a Czech armament inventor and his pretty daughter. They are kid-
napped back to Germany, there to be helped by a British intelligence officer (Rex Harrison) who has disguised himself as a German major. Foiling the German Navy, Army, and Herr Himmler’s S.S. men by turns, they escape to Munich and the Swiss Frontier. Good performance from Rex Harrison. We could have done with some more of the sporting asses, the aforesaid Messrs. Radford and Wayne. An interesting point is that "The Lady Vanishes," which. was made before the outbreak of war, did not actually name the nationality of the villainous plotters, "Night Train to Munich" makes no bones about it. The hand of Hitler pounding a map, high officers of the German Admiralty, S.S. men, and all the sinister trappings of Nazidom are there in full force.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 16
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263NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 16
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