Night Train to Paris

Night Train To Paris
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Directed by	Robert Douglas
Produced by	Robert L. Lippert Jack Parsons
Written by	Henry Cross
Starring	Leslie Nielsen Aliza Gur Dorinda Stevens Eric Pohlmann
Music by	Kenny Graham
Cinematography	Arthur Lavis
Editing by	Robert Winter
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox
Release date(s)	1964
Running time	65 Min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Night Train to Paris is a 1964 British spy film starring Leslie Nielsen, Aliza Gur and Dorinda Stevens.

Plot

Former OSS officer Alan Holiday (Leslie Nielsen) is visited by Catherine Carrel (Aliza Gur) on New Year's Eve, Carrel says she's a close friend of Jules Lemoine (Hugh Latimer) also a former OSS officer who served with Holiday during the war.

Lemoine visits and wants Holiday to go to Paris on a secret mission: delivering a reel of tape which he gives him, Lemoine keeps a fake reel himself to deceive enemy agents. When Lemoine is killed and the fake tape stolen Holiday decides to go to Paris.

He poses as an assistant to photographer Louis Vernay (André Maranne), and they take three models along to further the ruse.

Reviews

A review in The Film Daily 1964 vol. 125 had this to say “Night Train to Paris is a neat little suspense film that will be a fine addition to any double bill. Its length probably automatically relegates it to second feature…”. Howard Thompson, in the New York Times for December 3, 1964, disparaged the film: “"Night Train to Paris — there's an intriguing title. But, believe us, this thumpingly mediocre little suspense melodrama that drifted into neighborhood theaters yesterday can go back to where it came from. There have been worse plots but few more familiar”… and “…starchy dialogue is neatly matched by Robert Douglas’s flat-footed direction”. “The most attractive thing about the whole picture is a nifty blonde named Dorinda Stevens. The woman can act, too, which is more than can be said for most of the others”.

Cast

• Leslie Nielsen : Alan Holiday
• Aliza Gur : Catherine Carrel
• Dorinda Stevens : Olive Davies
• Eric Pohlmann : Krogh
• Edina Ronay : Julie
• André Maranne : Louis Vernay
• Cyril Raymond : Insp. Fleming
• Stanley Morgan : Plainclothesman
• Hugh Latimer : Jules Lemoine
• Jenny White : Vernay's Model
• Jack Melford : PC inspector

Translations

Italy: Tren Nocturo A Paris^[1]

DVD details

• Release date: October 5, 2004
• Widescreen
• Region: 1
• Colour: Black and White
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
• Running time: 65 minutes
• Special Features: Theatrical Trailer, Poster Gallery

References

1. ^ "ebay.com". Night Train to Paris. http://cgi.ebay.nl/NIGHT-TRAIN-TO-PARIS-NIELSEN-ALIZIA-GUR_W0QQitemZ3817703400QQihZ004QQcategoryZ2321QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem. Retrieved unknown2007. 

External links

• Night Train to Paris at the Internet Movie Database
• Night Train To Paris at AllRovi
• Night Train to Paris at AllRovi