Night Train to Munich (1940)
Directed by Carol Reed
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
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The references are multitudinous, and come from everywhere (one of my favorites is a cable car sequence nodding to Carol Reed's 1940 thriller "Night Train To Munich").
His favorite is a reference to Night Train To Munich .
The scenes set aboard the funicular railway resemble the climax of Carol Reed's "Night Train to Munich."
The action sequences recall everything from Carol Reed 's "Night Train to Munich," in scenes involving derring-do in the Alps, to Alfred Hitchcock 's "Foreign Correspondent," as in the climactic air battle pitting America Himself against the Red Skull high over the Atlantic.
Si bien es cierto que los hechos históricos son convincentes, de manera intencional, Spielberg recurre a algunas cuantas pinceladas del thriller de la vieja escuela –principalmente la influencia de The Third Man (1949) y Night Train to Munich (1940), ambos de Carol Reed– para desplegar un relato eficaz y absorbente.