29 Jan Night Train to Paris
Night Train to Paris, spy film starring Leslie Nielsen
(1964) A former OSS agent living in London takes the Night Train to Paris in order to deliver a tape recording of secret military information to the French government. I was intrigued to watch this British film because my mother’s OSS boss, William T. Carlson, worked in Paris after the war.
This was a fun caper and pretty much what you would expect from Leslie Nielson who played the OSS agent. It was one of the early films (his first in 1956) in his 50+ year career. His female counterpart was played by former Miss Israel of 1960, Aliza Gur. According to Wikipedia, her parents had fled Germany to Israel during Hitler’s reign.
The movie was only 65 minutes, and that was okay. Here is the best part: It was New Year’s Eve, and the characters were all on a sleeper train leaving London. I wondered when they would get on the boat. Then the train drove right into a ferry! It was the Train ferry that went to Dunkirk from the 1930’s until 1980. During World War II service was suspended.
Night Train to Paris at amazon.coom
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