Night Train to Munich

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1940 British thriller about Nazis, spys, and a Nazi spy.

This film contains examples the following tropes:

• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Even in a concentration camp, Anna's appearance suffers nothing except a little tousled hair
• Bottomless Magazines
• Cannot Convey Sarcasm: Invoked. When Schwab says, "This is a fine country to live in!" he gets in trouble for treason. He weasels out by saying that he actually said, "This is a fine country to live in!" He is advised against making statements that could be construed two ways in the future.
• Comically Missing the Point: When a British man visiting Germany is informed that the news stand doesn't sell British magazines, he says, "Sold out, I suppose?"
• Dressing As the Enemy
• Follow That Car!
• Ghostapo: Parodied. John Fredericks: Occultist and Ophthalmic Surgeon.
• Herr Doktor
• High-Class Glass: Invoked. Randall wears a monocle when he disguises himself as a Nazi.
• I Have Many Names: Dick Randall has at least two aliases
• La Résistance
• Mugged for Disguise
• Only a Flesh Wound: Of the shot in the shoulder variety
• The Mole
• Reverse Mole: One of the guards in the camp helps them escape, but this is a subversion. The escape was planned.
  • Gus Bennett/Dick Randall goes undercover as a German officer
• Take That: Gone With the Wind is shown being sold on a shelf right next to Mein Kampf. Also serves as a Historical In-Joke, because the book was very popular in Nazi Germany for all the wrong reasons.
• Translation Convention: Czechs and Germans all speek English to each other
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: In the camp, Karl gives one of these to some of the guards. This is later subverted by the fact that it was only done to make Anna trust him.
• Those Two British Guys
• Those Wacky Nazis