"The Lady Vanishes" vs. "Night Train to Munich"
Apr 10, 2017 18:49:20 GMT
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Post by telegonus on Apr 10, 2017 18:49:20 GMT
I've seen them both, saw The Lady Vanishes first, and have seen it many times since, while Night Train To Munich I've seen just once, and it did play like a riff on the earlier film. The earlier film is more playful feeling, as I recall, and a product of the pre-war era, while the other film has a more real life vibe, as I remember it.
I believe the war had already started by that time. One of the many things that made the Hitchcock film so great was the way it captured (to apparent perfection) the mood of pre-war England, and I suppose, more broadly Europe, in the face of the coming war.
There's even a chapter in Robert Graves' book on the interwar era, The Long Weekend, that uses the newspaper headline near the end "Rain Stops Play" that references that film, as the title of the final chapter. In this it was a film larger than itself, a sort of watershed, and as such has a place in history,--or am I "reaching" in saying this?
I believe the war had already started by that time. One of the many things that made the Hitchcock film so great was the way it captured (to apparent perfection) the mood of pre-war England, and I suppose, more broadly Europe, in the face of the coming war.
There's even a chapter in Robert Graves' book on the interwar era, The Long Weekend, that uses the newspaper headline near the end "Rain Stops Play" that references that film, as the title of the final chapter. In this it was a film larger than itself, a sort of watershed, and as such has a place in history,--or am I "reaching" in saying this?