Review – Night Train to Munich

Carol Reed’s presence in the director’s chair helps put this a cut above the average World War Two propaganda picture. A young woman (Margaret Lockwood) is rescued from a concentration camp and reunited with her scientist father in England only to discover that she’s been used by an evil Gestapo agent (Paul Henreid) as bait in a trap to kidnap the good doctor and cart him off to Germany. Fortunately a British agent (played by a disturbingly young Rex Harrison) comes to their rescue, steering through a number of clever twists and cliffhanging turns while trying to save the day. Though this is a far cry from The Third Man, it’s still one of the better spy pictures of its day. Worth seeing