NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH (CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1940
• Genre: Suspense/Thriller, War
• Plot: Carol Reed’s Night Train to Munich is a twisting, turning, cloak-and-dagger delight, combining comedy, romance, and thrills with the greatest of ease. Paced like an out-of-control locomotive, Night Train takes viewers on a World War II–era journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps, as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter (Margaret Lockwood), who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent, played by Rex Harrison. This captivating, long-overlooked adventure—which also features Paul Henreid and a clever screenplay by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, best known for writing Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes—is a deftly concocted spy game that could give the master of suspense a run for his money.
• Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, James Harcourt, Felix Aylmer, Wyndham Goldie, Roland Culver, Eliot Makeham, Raymond Huntley, Austin Trevor, Kenneth Kent, C.V. France, Frederick Valk, Morland Graham, Edward Baxter, Jane Cobb, Arthur Denton, Ian Fleming, Irene Handl, Bryan Herbert, Adolf Hitler, David Horne, Allan Jeayes, Albert Lieven, Howard Marion-Crawford, G.H. Mulcaster, Charles Oliver, Winifred Oughton, Wally Patch, J.H. Roberts, Billy Russell, Torin Thatcher, Wilfred Walter, John Wengraf, Ben Williams, Pat Williams, Pardoe Woodman, Carol Reed, Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder, Gordon Wellesley, Otto Kanturek
• Director: Carol Reed
• Runtime: 1:35
• Company: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (20th Century Fox Film Corporation), The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie