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Paris, August 1944. With the Allied army closing in, German commander and art fanatic Colonel von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. But when a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage von Waldheim’s scheme, Labiche (Burt Lancaster), a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost. Calling upon his vast arsenal of skills, Labiche unleashes a torrent of devastation and destruction – loosened rails, shattered tracks and head-on collisions – in an impassioned, suspense-filled quest for justice, retribution and revenge. Inspired by an actual event and highlighted by spectacular stuntwork and visual effects, The Train is a superior edge-of-your-seat, thrilling and suspenseful film!
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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best WW2 thrillers ever made,
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This review is from: Train The [DVD] [1964] (DVD)
The Train is one of those films that is really more European than American. John Frankenheimer (taking over from Arthur Penn) was always the American director who was most influenced by French cinema, with the result that this, the last major action film shot in black and white, has more of a low-key more continental feel to it than a Hollywood one - aside from Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield (who for once comes perilously close to ham without ever quite crossing the line) and La Silence de la Mer's Howard Vernon, the cast is made up almost entirely of the great and good of French cinema, from Jeanne Moreau to Michel Simon. What's more, the realistic style - more pre-war French cinema than nouvelle vague - sells the action scenes which, in other hands, could become pure comic book stuff a la Von Ryan's Express. The fact that the key action scenes are done `for real,' with a condemned railway yard blown up during the air raid sequence and real locomotives crashing into each other, only shows up the weightless artificiality of much modern CGI or of the miniature work of the day. The crash in particular, which destroyed one camera, has a sense of weight and violence to it that you just don't see in films anymore. Still impressive stuff.
Sadly, John Frankenheimer's audio commentary included on the R1 NTSC DVD is NOT included on the R2 release - a great pity, since it's particularly good and enlightening. Very highly recommended nonetheless.
36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Train,
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This review is from: Train The [DVD] [1964] (DVD)
One of the best films of resistance in Europe that it should go hand in hand with The Pianist, and Kanal. Some brilliant action sequences for it's time and some very tragic moments as war is full of it. The ending is where the film leaves it's message and the filming and scripting is beautifully suited for it. Overall an excellent film.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Train was an exciting journey.,
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This review is from: Train The [DVD] [1964] (DVD)
This has to be one of the greatest war time films of all time.
This is just begging for a special edition.Burt Lancaster is allways so great in movies. Theres so much in this film action,drama,suspense. A brilliant sunday afternoon movie.
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