NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH (1940) ** There's no point hoping that Guns N' Roses is going to play "Night Train," as the musical masterpiece post-dated this cinematic effort by more than 45 years. So the best hope is gone, right out the window, and me right with it. I refused to watch. Just kidding, I really watched anyway. The British clearly understood that the Germans were on the brink of behaving very badly again, and there's a perverse humour in their presentation. Of course no one had much clue about the worst of it in 1940 (the fathers of John F. Kennedy and George H. Bush being among those urging caution and relaxation) but, you know, when you rally the troops you really do have to present them with something . So the Germans are presented as a race that not only doesn't kiss the asses of aristocrats, but on more than one occasion veer recklessly across that invisible line into actual rudeness! Well, well, anything to stop that then! Rex Harrison and Margaret Lockwood give a Swiss cheese script what they can, but the world will be forever grateful that the boys at the front took a bit more than that.
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