Night Train to Paris
Here’s Leslie Nielsen before Airplane! changed the course of his career, in Night Train to Paris, a curio from 1964. Nielsen plays a former spy dragged back into the game over a valuable computer program. Alan Hamilton’s task: to get the tape containing the program to Paris pdq. The impediment: so far, everyone who’s handled it has died at the hands of a fat assassin. Can Alan succeed where everyone else has failed? And will exotic beauty Catherine Carrel (Aliza Gur) be able to help him? I remember making the same journey, London Victoria to Gare du Nord in Paris, and if this film does one great service, it helps explain why that … Read more