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With the Allies poised to retake Paris from the Germans, Col. Franz Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) conspires to sneak out by train all of the art masterpieces looted by the German army. But museum curator Mademoiselle Villard (Suzanne Flon) alerts the French Resistance, and soon railway inspector Paul Labiche (Burt Lancaster) is pressed into service. He reroutes the train, and cleverly deceives Von Waldheim by renaming each train station along the way.
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Genre: Action, Mystery & thriller, War
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Original Language: English
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Director: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn
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Producer: Jules Bricken
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Writer: Rose Valland, Franklin Coen, Frank Davis, Albert Husson
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Distributor: United Artists, MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc.
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Production Co: Les Productions Artistes Associés, United Artists, Dear Film Produzione, Les Films Ariane
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Sound Mix: Surround
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Frankenheimer manages to make the movie both an exciting action thriller and a commentary on how art is just as important to a culture's survival as its people.
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Where did this beautiful golden nugget come from? I'd never heard of it before. The damnable Nazis (again!!!) are stealing all the major art, the pride of France, right out of Paris, and the only thing standing in their way is the overmatched, overstressed, overwhelm French Underground. They've got more important things to get to on their plate too, but eventually are persuaded to see the art as more than simply decoration, and perhaps more important than guns, planes and even trains. What's Burt Lancaster doing in here then? Bad casting, but foiled but Lancaster's gravitas as a French railwayman fighting for the Resistance. So good, this film, so good. Jeanne Moreau is under used as only a love interest. Paul Scofield is perfect as the gentleman Kraut psychotic, one of only two people in the film who "understand" how important the art actually is, other than simply as a financial return.
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Exciting story based on actual events in the resistance to Nazi occupiers during WWII. Good performance by Lancaster. Definitely worth seeing if this has somehow slipped under your radar.
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Burt Lancaster is a commanding onscreen presence, even in his less memorable performances. "The Train" has him playing Labiche, a French railway inspector who joins the French Resistance in their effort to stop a ruthless Nazi colonel from stealing a priceless art collection. Needless to say, Lancaster isn't convincing as a Frenchman, but he has charm and spirit and we like his character instantly because of it. "The Train" suffers from too much exposition and not enough action, but it is well-scripted and intensely-directed by the consistently underrated John Frankenheimer.
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