Review of Night Train to Munich (1940) by Dan B — 19 Mar 2009

*Slight spoiler warning*. Wartime thriller in the Lady Vanishes vein (same writers), but not up to the same standard. Perhaps the (inevitable) propaganda squeezes out some of the charm, but besides that, it's a bit slow to get started, wildly implausible and after a thrilling cable car climax seems (like the main villain) to just give up.

That being said, Harrison is on fine form and it's great to see Radford & Wayne reprise their Lady Vanishes roles of Charters & Calidicott (though curiously, Margaret Lockwood who was the star of that film appears as a completely different character here - you'd think that Radford or Wayne would say 'Gosh, you look awfully like that woman we helped on another train a couple of years ago!") Worth a look, but probably only if you're already a fan of the cast or director.