Former OSS officer Alan Holiday is visited by Catherine Carrel on New Year's Eve, Carrel says she's a close friend of Jules Lemoine, also a former OSS officer who served with Holiday during the war.
Lemoine wants Holiday to go to Paris on a secret mission: to deliver a reel of tape, containing defense information while Lemoine keeps a fake reel to deceive enemy agents. When Lemoine is killed and the fake tape stolen, Holiday goes to Paris.
He poses as an assistant to photographer Louis Vernay, and they take three models along to maintain the ruse.[3]
A review in The Film Daily 1964 vol. 125 wrote "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".
InThe New York Times, Howard Thompson 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...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".
