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    " They bombed it. They strafed it. Sabotaged it. Cursed the train!"
    Country
    Runtime 2 hr 13 min
    Budget $6 700 000
    Premiere: World September 23, 1964
    Box Office – Budget $710 000
    Premiere: USA $7 410 000 March 7, 1965
    Digital: World April 1, 2020
    Parental Advisory Frightening & Intense Scenes, Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking, Profanity, Violence & Gore, ...
    • Frightening & Intense Scenes

      few

    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

      few

    • Profanity

      few

    • Violence & Gore

      few

    Production Companies Polyphony DigitalLes Films ArianeUnited Artists...Les Productions Artistes AssociésDear Film Produzione
    Also Known As
    Le Train (France)
    Il treno (Italy)

    Description

    In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.

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    Production

    John Frankenheimer took over the film from another director, Arthur Penn. Burt Lancaster had Penn fired after three days of filming in France, and called in Frankenheimer to take over. Penn envisioned a more intimate film that would muse on the role art played in Lancaster's character, and why he would risk his life to save the country's great art from the Nazis. He did not intend to give much focus to the mechanics of the train operation itself. But Lancaster wanted more emphasis on action to ensure that the film would be a hit, after the failure of his film The Leopard. The production was shut down briefly while the script was rewritten, and the budget doubled. As he recounts in the Champlin book, Frankenheimer used the production's desperation to his advantage in negotiations. He demanded and got the following: his name was made part of the title, "John Frankenheimer's The Train"; the French co-director, demanded by French tax laws, was not allowed to ever set foot on set; he was given total final cut; and a Ferrari. Much of the film was shot on location.

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    A powerful military action film filled with suspense about the heroic sabotage of the French railway resistance. Superbly shot, lots of practical special effects. Burt Lancaster is simply the epitome of masculinity. He goes to great lengths not for the sake of ideals, but rather for the benefit of the common cause. Translated to English