My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Monday, November 12, 2012

Night Train to Munich (1940)

Rex Harrison really was a great actor.   He is so much more than Professor Higgins from My Fair Lady.  Here he's a British spy named Dickie Randall who goes behind enemy lines just as WWII is starting up to rescue the young woman he fell in love with and her scientist father the Nazis want to force into working for them.  Carol Reed directs what is his best film (yes, I've seen The Third Man but this one really has suspense all the way through).  Two civilian Englishmen traveling through Germany almost steal the show as they become involved in the spy games.  Grade: A-
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