Watching “The Train” w/Burt Lancaster

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Was really bummed when Papa Boule blocked the oil sump with a few coins. "Four francs is four francs.." Good flick
 
...good movie...

...Burt Lancaster displays some of his background as an acrobat in that one...especially when he comes down that ladder...

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Great movie, good soundtrack.

Papa Boule reminds me of my first mentor on the job; a real dinosaur and one of a kind.
 
I saw it in a theater around May of '65, I think. By then, few pictures were shot in B&W. Excellent movie. Burt Lancaster may have been close to or just past his prime at that point, but he continued making great, if not fewer films for some years to come.
 
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Pretty good WW II movie. About a train in France loaded with valuable Art works. French Resistance is trying to save. Just wondering if anyone else has ever seen it, it’s an old B&W. Still pretty good flick though.
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One of the last (if not THE last) big budget flick shot in B&W. This gives the film that 1940s wartime feel. The sabotage scene at the Vaires RR yard was well done: much sabotage was accomplished like this, made to look like incompetence. No matter, hostages would still be shot.

Filming time ran over original estimates: the executions of Boule and the station master were added as those actors had obligations elsewhere. Lancaster and Jeanne Moreau did not get along: another monkey wrench. The film was based on an actual incident: the Nazis attempting to remove a trainload of art from Paris, but the actual train did not make it out of the RR yard.

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Ogandydancer said:
Pretty good WW II movie. About a train in France loaded with valuable Art works. French Resistance is trying to save. Just wondering if anyone else has ever seen it, it’s an old B&W. Still pretty good flick though.
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"An old B&W." Wow, that makes me feel old, seeing a 1964 film referred to as "old". I guess it is, though, isn't it? And I guess I am old.


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I have in my favorites on Netflix or hulu? (One of them). The Train
great movie....
another good one from a just a few years ago is "Monuments Men "about Nazi 's stealing art from Paris and the US miltary men chasing after the art.
 
"Monuments Men" could hardly be considered in the same category of excellence as "The Train", but it was worth watching, once.
 
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