The Train
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.
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As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to take back to Germany, even as the chaos of retreat descends upon his troops. But he French Resistance is determined to stop the train without damaging the cargo, and the station master devises an elaborate ruse to divert the train so that it never leaves French territory. directed by John Frankenheimer Burt Lancaster as Paul Labiche Paul Scofield as Colonel Franz Von Waldheim Jeanne Moreau as Christine Suzanne Flon as Mademoiselle Villard Michel Simon as Papa Boule Wolfgang Preiss as Major Herren Albert Rémy as Didont Charles Millot as Pesquet I colorized this using AI software that doesn't always get the colors right, but I think it looks fairly natural. Hopefully a more professional job will be done someday.
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- Director
- John Frankenheimer
- Starring
- Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Simon, Wolfgang Preiss, Albert Rémy, Charles Millot
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