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    Train, The (1964)

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    During the last days of the German occupation of Paris, Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield), an art-obsessed German colonel, arranges to steal all of the city’s great art treasures and send them by train to Berlin.

    When the French Resistance learns of the plan, French railway engineer Labiche (Burt Lancaster) is ordered to stop the train.

    Not wishing to risk lives or the paintings – which are part of the French national heritage – Labiche concocts an elaborate scheme to keep the train in France.

    Both Labiche and Von Waldheim become obsessed with their missions.

    The Train begins with a dedication “to those French railwaymen, alive and dead, whose magnificent spirit and whose courage inspired this story”.

    The film also seems a tribute to Lancaster’s athletic prowess. He leaps over walls and on and off trains. Even when he’s shot in the leg he moves faster than anyone else in the mostly genuine French cast.

    The fast-paced action is very well handled by John Frankenheimer, replacing Arthur Penn after several days shooting.

    Real trains, not models, were used throughout, with multiple cameras catching as much action with as few takes as possible. During one crash sequence, a locomotive came in too fast and destroyed six of seven cameras at one blow.

    The film also raises the question of whether any work of art is worth anyone’s life.

    Paul Labiche
    Burt Lancaster
    Colonel von Waldheim
    Paul Scofield
    Christine
    Jeanne Moreau
    Papa Boule
    Michel Simon
    Mademoiselle Villard
    Suzanne Flon
    Major Herren
    Wolfgang Preiss
    Didont
    Albert Rémy
    Pesquet
    Charles Millot
    General von Lubitz
    Richard Münch
    Jacques
    Jacques Marin
    Spinet
    Paul Bonifas
    Captain Schmidt
    Jean Bouchaud
    Sergeant Schwartz
    Donal O’Brien
    Octave
    Jean-Pierre Zola
    Lieutenant Pilzer
    Arthur Brauss
    Captain Dietrich
    Howard Vernon
    Sergeant Grote
    Richard Bailey
    Robert
    Christian Fuin
    Tauber
    Christian Remy
    Gestapo chief
    Max Fromm
    Hubert
    Jacques Blot
    Bernard
    Bernard Lajarrige

    Director
    John Frankenheimer

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