Shortly before the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, Axel Bomasch, a weapons engineer working on an improved form of armour plating, discovers that he is on the Nazis' hit list for capture so that his invention can be used on German tanks. He prepares to leave the country with his daughter Anna but his timing of critically off to the point that he just barely escapes just when the Nazis manage to invade. Anna, unfortunately, is arrested before she even leaves the house. Anna languishes in a concentration camp until she meets another prisoner, a former teacher named Karl Morsen who decides to help her escape & flee to England where her father has set up shop. But what Anna doesn't know is that Morsen is actually a Nazi spy tasked with capturing Axel, using Anna as bait. Once the pair reach England, he puts his plan into action & succeeds in abducting Anna & her father, taking them to Germany by submarine. The British, determined to rectify this, send their best man, Gus Bennett, a British secret agent who has been undercover as a war songs musician. Bennett arrives in Germany, pretending to be a German army colonel, & makes it onto the train that is carrying the Bomasch family to Munich. Meeting up with Anna & her father, Bennett fools the Germans into thinking that he was Anna's former lover & that he will convince them to stay & help the Nazis. But Morsen, also on the train, suspects otherwise. It is only through the help of two of Bennett's old friends, a pair of British tourists, who overhear Morsen's plans that Bennett is able to achieve his objective.
This World War II-era spy thriller is an interesting film for film buffs. Despite its datedness & slow pace, the film is a reasonable spy thriller with dashes of comedy & even an exciting climax where Rex Harrison & his friends make a daring escape from the Nazis.
Night Train to Munich was made shortly after the War began & takes place on the night it eventuated. Of course, there is no mention to the most infamous brutality of the Nazi regime, probably because at this point in time the Nazis' program of genocide was still being formulated, although the state of fear that they created in their territory was common knowledge. The film also shows some elements of Nazi brutality in their state, such as prisoners being beaten & teachers jailed for not forcing their students to teach German, as well as a worker being interrogated for accidentally making an off-hand remark about the Nazi regime.
For acting, Rex Harrison makes an excellent prototype James Bond, the My Fair Lady star proving to be a remarkably good secret agent who is able to fool the Nazis & achieve his objectives, rescuing the victims from their Nazi oppressors.
This World War II-era spy thriller is an interesting film for film buffs. Despite its datedness & slow pace, the film is a reasonable spy thriller with dashes of comedy & even an exciting climax where Rex Harrison & his friends make a daring escape from the Nazis.
Night Train to Munich was made shortly after the War began & takes place on the night it eventuated. Of course, there is no mention to the most infamous brutality of the Nazi regime, probably because at this point in time the Nazis' program of genocide was still being formulated, although the state of fear that they created in their territory was common knowledge. The film also shows some elements of Nazi brutality in their state, such as prisoners being beaten & teachers jailed for not forcing their students to teach German, as well as a worker being interrogated for accidentally making an off-hand remark about the Nazi regime.
For acting, Rex Harrison makes an excellent prototype James Bond, the My Fair Lady star proving to be a remarkably good secret agent who is able to fool the Nazis & achieve his objectives, rescuing the victims from their Nazi oppressors.