But with more nudity!
I kid, I kid. There's no nudity at all in Night Train to Munich. It's not a bad little film, I guess, but the train doesn't figure as largely as the title seems to imply that it will. The original title, Gestapo, would have been better, but considering it was made in 1940 one can see how that might have been a bit touchy. Details after the jump!
As you might expect from the title there's a bit of mystery, intrigue and spying and there's a bit of Rex Harrison singing songs. The plot hinges on a scientist who has invented a militarily applicable macguffin. He has the compulsory beautiful daughter (played by Margaret Lockwood) and she's spirited out of Czechoslovakia by Paul Henreid (of Casablanca fame) as a ruse to allow the Gestapo to find and kidnap back her father. Rex Harrison feels so bad about not doing his duty in protecting them from the evil Nazi plot that he sneaks into Germany and tries to kidnap them back again.
Anyway, hijinks ensue and our hero ends up making a run for the Swiss border where they're going to try a variation on the Von Trapp escape. Fun points for Rex Harrison having hair and singing ridiculous songs of the period, the great Victor Laszlo being a Nazi stooge and everyone's revolver at the end holding at least 20 shots. Oh, and some spectacular model work. Most of it was pretty convincing, even by modern standards, though of course there was usually a detail here or there that gave it away.
If you like old films a lot or just want to see Henreid play a Nazi, it's worth getting from the library or dropping in your Netflix queue.
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