Without question, "The Train" remains one of my all time Top 10 favourite films. Burt was so accurate in his portrayal of a real Railroad man... The nuances are all there.
One of my all-time favorite movies! I was a lad of 10 when my Dad took me to see it, and it even had some airplanes in it. The Spitfire strafing scene was great! How I long for the pre-CGI days when they blew real stuff up..
Really one of the best movies ever made. Burt had 5 Academy Award nominations and won Best Actor in 1960 for it. Been out on DVD for years. No CGI special effects just incredible miniatures and other effects and alot of awesome acting.' Burt Lancaster was really one one of the best actors in America. But you have to be old to remember. So many movies when we were growing up.
i mean, im gen z and ive watched it, fantastic film, though tbh in terms of numbers nowadays there's like thousands of films that get released becuz its gotten way cheaper to make them and you don't need big studios anymore.
Classic great movie , best actors !!! Great script and idea during WW II Fighting the Nazis this way Burt Lancaster stole the show! Academy award’s all way round best picture, actor , story , best supporting actor !!! Fantastic film Black n white classic!!!!!!!!!
I bet you watched it today, brilliant movie doing it in black and white and the battle of wills , the sad bit is the incident people from the village on the outside of the train being shot.
@2:26 It’s a good thing one camera 🎥 survived that staged wreck. I was amazed just how awesome it looked how the freight car wheel barely skidded against it!
Filmmaking legend goes that actually the film got a huge boon from the French National Railways, the SNCF, who were looking to modernize this railway line. This meant the demolition of much of the existing infrastructure and the scrapping of all of the aging steam locomotives, some of which dated to before the First World War. But the scale of the project was so great that postwar-starved SNCF lacked the funds to complete the work alone. Thus when Frankenheimer approached them for locations to film, the directors of the railway were delighted and offered the use of the obsolete railway and rolling stock free of charge, including full permission to film the air raid scene on the railyard, which they didn't have the money to demolish themselves. In short, the French railway management said, "Of course, by all means, knock yourselves out! Blow up anything you want! Crash all the trains you like. Matter of fact, you'd be doing us a big favor if you did."
Very interesting to see this background. The marshalling yard and buildings were apparently scheduled for demolition anyway. So the filmmakers saved the SNCF the trouble! A win-win situation!
The only laugh I got from this mostly realistic movie was when Burt Lancaster tells Michel Simon the switch is closed and he cant get through. Burt then runs to a switch stand prob 50 feet or more from the actual switch and opens that! But anyway, an awesome movie I've watched and enjoyed many times!
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This is what happens when you give a bunch of 40 year old guys two and a half tons of dynamite and an abandoned narrow gage train system that needs to be destroyed, and tell them to make a WWII movie.
Some of scenes are very inaccurate. In beginning of movie,when la beecher and other resistance meet on boat,they would have never,never allowed an outsider to me them.the man that brought her might've also bee N killed.resistance was very secretive.