Night Train to Munich

Night Train to Munich is a 1940 British thriller film. It was directed by Carol Reed, with writing credits by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. It is liberally adapted from the Gordon Wellesley novel Report on a Fugitive. When the Germans march into Prague, a scientist who is working on a new process for armour-plating, Dr. Bomasch, escapes to England. His daughter, Anna, who is also about to flee, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Th... more

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Carol Reed

Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director, most famous for directing The Third Man, The Agony and the Ecstasy and Oliver!. He won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for Oliver!. The son of actor-producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress, May...

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