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Berlin Express (Warner Archive) (1948)
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| Starring: | Robert Ryan, Merle Oberon, Paul Lukas, Charles Korvin, Robert Coote, Reinhold Schunzel, Roman Toporow, Peter von Berg, Otto Waldis, Fritz Kortner, Michael Harvey, Tom Keene |
| Director: | Jacques Tourneur |
| Genre: | Drama, Film Noir, Mystery/Thriller, Thrillers/Suspense |
| Year: | 1948 |
| Studio: | Warner Home Video |
| Length: | 86 minutes |
| Released: | September 2, 2009 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | NTSC, Full Screen, Black & White |
| Language: | English(Original Language) |
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SYNOPSIS:Board the Berlin Express and speed into danger, mystery and intrigue! Four postwar heroes – a veritable United Nations from Britain, France, Russia and the U.S. – battle a cadre of diehard Nazis to rescue an anti-fascist German statesman in this tense espionage thriller starring Robert Ryan, Merle Oberon and Paul Lukas.
The setting is as riveting as the action: Berlin Express was the first American movie filmed in post-World War II Germany. Director Jacques Tourneur (Cat People, Out of the Past) and cinematographer Lucien Ballard (The Wild Bunch) capture the ruin of a bombed and devastated nation that just a few years earlier threatened to rule the world.
NO BONUS FEATURES
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There are 1 reviews for this movie |
  | M Robert | | The only real reason to watch this film is for the location work in Frankfurt and Berlin which really shows the results of the allied bombing in WW2. There's some good black and white cinematography, and an interesting sequence in an old brewery, but for a movie that promises suspense and intrigue on a train, there's very little suspense, incomprehensible intrigue and not much on trains. Maybe the concept made sense in 1948, but the plot left my wife and me scratching our heads. Dr. Bernhardt is a German diplomat/professor who apparently has some sort of vision of a unified postwar Germany and is enroute to a conference in Berlin to present it to the allies at a conference. There's another faction of Germans who oppose him, for reasons unknown. Exactly why we're supposed to care one way or the other is unclear, but the 2nd faction wants to prevent him from making his presentation. There's also some propaganda about postwar cooperation, particularly regarding the Soviets. There's no chemistry between Robert Ryan and Merle Oberon who is unconvincing as a French woman, and none of the characters are particularly interesting. If you want suspense and intrigue on a train, I highly recommend "The Narrow Margin" (the 1952 original, not the remake). But Berlin Express film is pretty underwhelming. |
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