MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 33, 8 February 1941, Page 7

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH” Hitler's rampaging in Europe since September, 1939, has one bright aspect —it provoked the production of “Night Train to Munich,” now showing at the Majestic Theatre. Produced by Metr®-Goldwyn-Mayer in England, this film is a masterpiece of satire without propaganda, thrilling in the extreme, yet containing plenty of British humour. Opening scenes show Czechoslovakia being flooded with pamphlets from enemy war planes—“ The Third Reich wants to protect you; you will submit to this protection or else . . .” In Czechoslovakia is a pro-British scientist, an author.ty on armour plating whom the Germans are anxious to capture. He escapes to England, but his daughter (Margaret Lockwood) is caught and bundled into a concentration camp. An “organised” escape enables the Germans to follow the daughter to England. The fattiei is caught and he and his daughter are taken to Berlin. At this stage the British Secret Service devise ways arc’, means of bringing the scientist bacn to E ngland. Rex Harr.son assumes the mantle of a mythical Captain Hertzog, and is greeted effusively by ine German staff in Berlin. He meets the s.'.entist an-i his daughter, and some laughable and painfully lense events tollow until the Fuhrer insists that all should go by train to Munich. It is then that (barters and Coldicutc (never been known to leave England before the cricket season Is over) make their hilarious entrance. They have a problem. England has just declared war—and Charters’ golf clubs are in Berlin. The picture races on tv a dramatic climax. Not once does it crag; not once does the humour falter. It is one of the most entertaining, topical films presented in years.