The Train [1964] | ![The Train [1964]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NAQBBF86L._SL75_.jpg)
 enlarge | Directors: Arthur Penn, John Frankenheimer
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Simon
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Category: Video
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 3507
Format: Black & White, Hifi Sound, Pal
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 127
Discs: 1
EAN: 5014780541962
ASIN: B00004CK7C
Theatrical Release Date: March 7, 1965
Release Date: June 1, 1998
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 art or propaganda ? July 23, 2008
the movie is well crafted and staged ,it is a fictional account and it raises some intersting questions about viability of art and value of human life.
the german colonel wants a trainload of stolen modern french art transported to berlin as the allies advance to paris ,he chooses only french painters like cezanne,renoir,picasso,lautrec,manet,van gogh ,matisse ,dufy ,braque and others for reasons known to himself alone ,his excuse to authorities is it is worth billions ,but he is secretly an art lover who worships these as a connoisseur.
london gives french resistaance orders to save the train and stop the art installment from being taken to germany .
the fact that most art stolen or destroyed in WW2 was from germany itself is not relevant here,so the plot shows holes right at start and then becomes a one man superhero chase as burt lancaster as the french rail man turned superhero stops the third reich from staging this offence,
the argument that germany was obviously defeated and could have done little with looted art or why had they not done it earlier is of np consequence here ,as what we have is an atmospheric thriller with french heroics and patriotism where french art symbolising french vision of life and national heritage has to be saved .
it is at times a ridiculous premise but continuously entertaining and the action is great on the trains and off the trains as well .paul scoffield is great as the ambiguous german art lover .worth seeing for the action and acting .
THE DVD IS A RESTORED COPY BUT NO EXRAS EXCEPT THE TRAILER -DISAPPOINTING
 The Train was an exciting journey. November 4, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
What a great film June 8, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Have just watched this film "The Train" after a number of years and I had forgotton just how good this movie is. The trains are real and they crash! Burt Lancaster will well supported by a cast that act their parts really well. While this film is no 100% based on fact - it does have a sense of being real.
A film for any collection.
One of the best WW2 thrillers ever made November 27, 2006
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
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.
Death and the engineer August 26, 2006
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is an action-packed, suspenseful film, without doubt. But it is also a sober and sobering one, asking questions for which the answers aren't easy or obvious. The counterpoint between Paul Scofield's Nazi and Burt Lancaster's station master is more than bad guy vs. good guy. Watch for the action and suspense, and then watch it for the ambiguity.
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