History Film / NightTrainToMunich

* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Charters and Caldicott do this and, surprisingly, don't mess things up. Charters overhears Karl's telephone call where he finds out Randall isn't a Wehrmacht engineering officer and plans to ambush him when they get to Munich. Charters then assumes that Randall must be who Caldicott thinks he is (old Dickie Randall!) and they plan to make sure by sending a note to him.

* TakeThat: ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'' is shown being sold on a shelf right next to ''Literature/MeinKampf.'' Also serves as a HistoricalInJoke, because the book was very popular in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany for [[MisaimedFandom all the wrong reasons]].
* ThoseTwoGuys: Caldicott and Charters, who'd appeared in ''Film/TheLadyVanishes'' a couple years earlier. They still love cricket. Actors Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne appeared in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charters_and_Caldicott several films together]], either explicitly as Caldicott and Charters or {{Expy}} versions.

* TranslationConvention: Czechs and Germans all speak English to each other.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In the camp, Karl gives one of these to some of the guards. [[spoiler: This is later subverted by the fact that it was only done to make Anna trust him.]]

* ThoseWackyNazis: They're so gullible!

A 1940 British UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo thriller directed by Creator/CarolReed, starring Creator/RexHarrison, Creator/MargaretLockwood, and Paul Henreid. It's about [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Nazis, spies, and a Nazi spy.]]

* ReverseMole: One of the guards in the camp helps them escape, but this is a subversion. The escape was planned.

And so, they are both tricked and forced to return to the Continent. Gus, in the meanwhile, feels responsible for their kidnapping, so he devises a covert plan to disguise himself as a Gestapo man to try to free Anna and her father from the Nazi grip and Karl's unflinching coldness.

* DressingAsTheEnemy: Randall dresses in the black Gestapo uniform because it's part of his covert mission.

* ImpersonationGambit: Randall has to pretend to be a Gestapo man in order to save Anna and her father. Since he's already a bit of snoot, he's able to pull off the haughty attitude of the Gestapo.

* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Charters and Caldicott do this and, surprisingly, don't mess things up. Charters overhears Karl's telephone call where he finds out Randall isn't a Gestapo man and plans to ambush him when they get to Munich. Charters then assumes that Randall must be who Caldicott thinks he is (old Dickie Randall!) and they plan to make sure by sending a note to him.

* CableCarActionSequence: The group have to cross into neutral Switzerland using cable cars. Randall has to commandeer it to get Anna, her father, and the Brits over, while he has to fight off the Nazis from coming in.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Caldicott and Charters, two British citizens, traveling around freely on a German train after the September 3, 1939 declaration of war. This is not a thing that happened; enemy aliens in Germany were interned. (It happened to Creator/PGWodehouse in RealLife after the Nazis overran France.)

Anna Bomasch (Lockwood) and her father, Axel, (James Harcourt) need to escape Czechoslovakia: Axel is the inventor and manufacturer of an armour-plating the Nazis will find very useful as they slowly roll into their annexation of the country. Axel escapes, but Anna isn't so lucky and is thrown into a concentration camp. Happily for her, she finds a friend among the prisoners, Karl Marsen (Henreid). They both escape to London, England, where Anna knows her father must be. She contacts him through songster and British agent, Gus Bennett a.k.a. Dickie Randall (Harrison). But it turns out that Karl is not what he seems: he was planted in the concentration camp to escape and have Anna lead him to her father.

See ''Film/TheLadyVanishes'' for a similar setting of pre-war conditions and intrigue.

* OnlyAFleshWound: Of the "shot in the shoulder" variety.

* ReverseMole: [[spoiler: One of the guards in the camp helps them escape, but this is a subversion. The escape was planned.]]

* [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two British Guys]]: Caldicott and Charters, who'd appeared in ''Film/TheLadyVanishes'' a couple years earlier.