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Night Train to Munich (1940)

Night Train to Munich poster
Directed by
Carol Reed
Genre
drama film, war film, spy film
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 93 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A British spy poses as a German officer to rescue an inventor and his daughter from the Gestapo during World War Two. He pretends to court the daughter to get close to the Nazis.

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What happens

Night Train to Munich is a 1940 British thriller film directed by Carol Reed and starring Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, and Naunton Wayne. Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, based on the 1939 short story “Report on a Fugitive” by Gordon Wellesley. The film is about an inventor and his daughter who are kidnapped by the Gestapo after the Nazis march into Prague in the prelude to the Second World War. A British secret service agent follows them, disguised as a senior German army officer pretending to woo the daughter over to the Nazi cause. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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