The Train (1964)
Directed by John
Frankenheimer this film stars Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield and
Jeanne Moreau. In 1944 the French resistance attempt to stop the
Germans taking a train load of French art back to Germany before
Paris falls.
Very loosely inspired
by real events this film is more action orientated than anything that
happened in real life. The film does at least make some attempt to
look at the cost paid by resistance fighters and occupied people
which is the film's real saving grace. Mostly the film is well made
and it does not show that there was a change of directors early in
production.
3/5
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