Night Train to Munich (Gestapo) (1940)
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Cast
as Anna Bomasch
as Gus Bennett
as Karl Marsen
as Charters
as Axel Bomasch
as Caldicott
as Dr. Fredericks
as Dryton
as Roberts
as Schwab
as Kampenfeldt
as Capt. Prada
as Controller
as Controller
as Adm. Hassinger
as Attendant
as Pier Fisherman
as Concentration Camp Officer
as Czech Armament Co. Official
as Brit. Intelligence Official
as Concentration Camp Doctor
as Station Master (uncredited)
as Minor Role (uncredited)
as Minor Role (uncredited)
as Minor Role (uncredited)
as Minor Role (uncredited)
as Official at Prague Steel Works (uncredited)
as Minor Role (uncredited)
as SS Officer at Concentration Camp (uncredited)
as Minor Role (uncredited)
as Gestapo Officer
as Minor Role (uncredited)
as Minor Role (uncredited)
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Critic Reviews for Night Train to Munich (Gestapo)
All Critics (15) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (1) | DVD (3)
Yarn is not only told without a single letdown, but it actually continues to pile up suspense to a nerve-clutching pitch.
The cast and script are fine, but Reed fatally lacks Hitchcock's light, witty touch and his effortless ability to create suspense out of ordinary circumstances.
Often described as a film made in the style of Alfred Hitchcock, Carol Reed's WWII-set Night Train to Munich certainly shares common ground with the Master of Suspense's 1938 gem The Lady Vanishes.
Double-crosses and disguises, captures and escapes make up the momentum of Reed's nicely pacy adventure. [Criterion Blu-ray]
It's fast, furious and funny but, even with that master of atmosphere Carol Reed as director, it could have done with a couple of fresh tricks to keep us guessing.
Takes awhile to catch fire. It's always engaging, though, and builds by stages to a riveting climax at the Swiss border that would have done the Master of Suspense proud.
Audience Reviews for Night Train to Munich (Gestapo)
It's cross and doublecross in the days immediately preceding WW2 as a scientist and his pretty daughter become the pawns between two competing countries. Paul Henreid is smoothly excellent as the savvy and smooth rep for the Axis Powers, nearly unbeatable. And Rex Harrison is the guy for the Allies, w/o a prayer to go on. Carol Reed paces the thing like a ride down a ski slope, going faster and faster ... I actually liked this better than the ballyhooed The Lady Vanishes, to which it's often compared. And the veddy English team of Radford and Wayne veddy nearly steal the whole thing outright.
Super Reviewer
A bit methodical in its presentation but still a classic rendering of intrigue and high drama. Rex Harrison and Paul Henreid are superb!
Super Reviewer
Night Train to Munich has its moments but its generally pretty dull. Margaret Lockwood helped keep me interested but outside of the nifty miniature-based finale, the comic relief and the irony of seeing Victor Laszlo play a Nazi, I wasn't exactly enthralled. Night Train to Munich isn't exactly awful but I can't for the life of my figure out why there's a Criterion edition of this.
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