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Rating: 6.5 stars

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Berlin Express (1948)

Directed by Jacques Tourneur

Film Noir | Thriller

Overview

In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.

Length 87 minutes

Actors

Merle Oberon | Robert Ryan | Charles Korvin | Paul Lukas | Robert Coote | Reinhold Schünzel | Roman Toporow | Peter von Zerneck | Otto Waldis | Fritz Kortner | Michael Harvey | Tom Keene | Charles McGraw | Gene Evans | Fernanda Eliscu | Norbert Schiller | Paul Stewart | Lisl Valetti | James Craven | Robert Dalban | James Nolan | Robert Shaw | Leonid Snegoff | William Stelling | Hermine Sterler | Willy Wickerhauser | Robert Boon

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

A post-WW2 Hitchcockian thriller, fascinating mostly for the location filming in bombed out Frankfurt and Berlin. I believe this was the first theatrical film shot in Berlin after the war. Germany was occupied by forces from the US, Russia, France, and England, and the conflicts from this play a big role in the plot.

Trivia: Merle Oberon was married to Lucien Ballard at the time and insisted on him being DP for the film. Ballard had put together a camera light that obscured scars on Oberon’s face.

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