Subway in the Sky – 1959 | 87 mins | Crime | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Post-war thriller set in West Germany and based on a successful play. The film is directed the talented Muriel Box, though here she struggles to keep the stage origins of the material concealed as the majority of the film takes place in a Berlin flat. Wilkie Cooper’s stark black-and-white photography is excellent.

Awol from the US Army Medical Corps, American soldier Maj. Baxter Grant (Van Johnson) is suspected of drug trafficking and murder. He hides out in his estranged wife’s Berlin apartment, now rented by cabaret singer Lilli Hoffman (Hildegard Knef). She shelters the deserter from probing visits by the German police and American military police and sets out to prove that he is innocent.