May 20th, 2012 12:45 PM |
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Night Train to Munich is a 1940 British thriller film. It was directed by Carol Reed, with writing credits by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. It is liberally adapted from the Gordon Wellesley novel Report on a Fugitive. When the Germans march into Prague, a scientist who is working on a new process for armour-plating, Dr. Bomasch (James Harcourt), is flown to England. His daughter Anna (Margaret Lockwood), however, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. There, she is befriended by a fellow Czech prisoner named Karl Marsen (Paul Henreid). Together, they escape to England, and Anna finds her father by placing a cryptic advertisement in a newspaper at Marsen’s suggestion. Dr. Bomasch is working for the Royal Navy at the Dartford naval base. He is guarded by Dickie Randall (Rex Harrison), a naval officer working undercover as an entertainer called ‘Gus Bennett’. Marsen, who is actually an undercover SS agent, has followed Anna; he and his agents soon capture her and her father from Randall, and return them to Germany on a U-boat. Randall volunteers to try to rescue them while they are still in transit in Germany. Posing as a German army engineer major named Herzog, he gains access to Anna, telling the Germans that they were lovers in Prague four years ago, and that this could help him persuade her to get her father to cooperate. He contrives to accompany them on a train trip to Munich with Marsen and two guards. On the train, they meet two Englishmen, Charters and <b>…</b>
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