"Night Train to Munich was originally filmed under the more topical-sounding title of Gestapo, and presumably changed when it was thought that such a heavy title might hurt a film that was so much in Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes tradition, and indeed was scripted by the same two writers, Launder and Gilliat... In the main, the Nazis are presented as simpletons, and there is a kind of grudging respect, or at least amiability, for the older generation German who represents military tradition rather than ideology.... Director Carol Reed was then in the middle of a brief Hitchcock period, turning out a brace of thrillers which would undoubtedly have been handed to Hitchcock had he not left for America... Even though Night Train to Munich is both funny and witty...it uses its comedy to move the plot forward. Every time that comedy threatens to take over on its own-as in the farcical scenes of Rex Harrison and Margaret Lockwood being forced to share a bedroom together-Reed backs off, and gets back to the plot... And for all its lightness of touch, it contains some quite stark concentration camp scenes." -William K. Everson