Night Train to Munich

Night Train to Munich
Theatrical release poster
Directed byCarol Reed
Screenplay by
Based onReport on a Fugitive
1939 short story
by Gordon Wellesley
Produced byEdward Black
Starring
CinematographyOtto Kanturek
Edited byR. E. Dearing
Music byLouis Levy
Production
company
20th Century Productions
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dates
  • 26 July 1940 (1940-07-26) (UK)
  • 29 December 1940 (1940-12-29) (USA)
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Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Night Train to Munich is a 1940 British thriller film directed by Carol Reed and starring Margaret Lockwood and Rex Harrison. 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.[2]

  1. ^ "Basil Radford & Naunton Wayne". Art & Hue.
  2. ^ Hal Erickson (2010). "Night Train to Munich (1940)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 1 July 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2013.