What an astonishing ending. After shooting the German Lancaster says nothing. The only thing that is heard is the repeating air pump on the locomotive. He just walks away leaving all that he had heroically fought for behind. Mysterious and wonderful!
Very underrated film. Lancaster and Schofield also appeared in Scorpio (1974) along with Alain Delon. I always admired Lancaster for his willingness to extend his range and appear in films like The Leopard and Conversation Piece. He was very much more than an action hero here
The first time i watched this movie on DVD, the moment LaBiche saw the dead bodies, it brought a lump to my throat. This was one of the best ever war films ever made.
The very last image in the movie, of LaBiche walking back on an empty road, a train stopped, the bodies of the dead and great art work strewn haphazardly in boxes, is the perfect allegory of Europe at the end of World War II.
Even the railway and the locomotive, once the pinnacle of European technical supremacy and Imperial might, as key to their empires as the roads were to the Romans. Lies broken amidst the wreckage, it’s air pump tolling like a church bell for the dead.
I always felt like the steam pump you hear in every shot with the locomotive nearby (the infrequent chuff-chuff noise in the background) was the bell tolling for all the lost lives. On and on, the bodies just keep mounting....
Back in the '50s and early '60s there was a forge (long since gone) on a road near my house and that monotonous steam-pump sound (coming here from the stationary loco) could be heard all day when you were at home: it was inescapable.
I don't know how to say this but... you must have see so many things and know so many things that I'm, as somebody who was born after 1990 am a little bit jealous. lol And I want to tell you something more about how I know this great movie, I watched it on Arte HD (a German TV programm) in German and I must say this has be to one of the best movies that I've ever seen. The movie is seriously but funny at some times in a great mix. (Sorry for my English) Also: I like history and "funnily"? I like the war geography more that the normal because I like to know how every country has found it's place ? I hope that makes any sense. While I and my father were watching the movie, my dad (who isn't that old??lol) told me more about some things like if the French people (you know the scene where they try to make the one German on the train, think that they are driving somewhere else as they're really are, like changing the sings of the villages) that if they did that back then and they would get caught, that it might happen that they would murder a whole village. Like wtf, WHY? just another reason to don't like them to ad to the long list. lol Now that was long :D have a nice day ❤🌷
One of the most haunting endings to one of the most underrated period/action films of all time. There's a poetry in this film I cannot describe. It's like a heroic epic shown through the lense of a dirtied glass. It's ironic that the "pride of France" is saved by men who couldn't care less while the villian of the film is the one who couldn't care more. Boxes and bodies strewn before him, and yet Lancaster holds that steely-eyed gaze like a starved wolf. He's exhausted by war and I don't blame him. (Check out the movie if you can).
Another irony is is Labiche, who doesn't care about the paintings, only human lives, loses all of his friends who DID care and survives, alone, while von Waldheim, who cares more about the paintings than human lives, dies and is outlived by all of his men who don't care about the paintings. The men are equals and opposites. The only deaths are those who care about the paintings while the cynics survive.
a very moving ending indeed. are the people who where shot by the Germans in front of the derailed engine meant to be railwaymen? engine drivers, firemen and engineers
The fact that Lancaster listened, turned and looked at the dead Frenchmen and said nothing...nothing...just prior to machine gunning the Colonel. It's what made this scene so realistic and powerful. Not a word of dialogue from Burt, and it said it all. A brilliant scene. Memorable. Classic. They don't do this today. Somehow, today's directors don't know how to create such intensity from facial drama. John Frankenheimer -- he made a masterpiece.
I like the way the Guy reacted at being gunned. He didnt shook his body as If he was having a seizure like most Characters do when being machine gunned; he Just Fell. Feels more believable.
Great starcast, direction,editing n composition,one of the finest movie of 1964.Burt Lancaster n Paul Scofield at their best.Myst watch for new generation.
I love the camera angles. The black and white film worked best. It portrays the total waste of war. I have seen pictures of the ruin and waste after a war and it never grows old, the amazing stupidity of war. I love the part where the german officer says, we have lost the war.
in the end, Von Waldheim's lack of value for Human life over lifeless paintings saw to his destruction. you didn't have to hear Labiche say it: his glance at the massacred men said it all: "I did it for them."
It's also noteworthy Labiche - who valued human life about the paintings - loses all of his friends, whereas von Waldheim - as you say cares only about the paintings - is outlived by all of his men.
0:30 to 2:04 "Labiche! Here's your prize Labiche. Some of the greatest paintings in the world. Does it please you, Labiche? You feel a sense of excitement at just being near them? A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. You won by sheer luck. You stopped me without knowing what you were doing or why.... You are nothing Labiche, a lump of flesh. The paintings are mine. They always will be. Beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it. They will always belong to me, or a man like me. Now, this minute, you couldn't tell me why you did what you did." -- Colonel Von Waldheim's last words before being shot by Paul Labiche
Saw this late in my life a couple of years ago. Action packed classic! Another great movie, "The Manchurian Candidate" both directed by the great John Frankenheimer!
I've seen this wonderful movie many times. And I always wonder at the end if Labiche was actually going to try to back that locomotive onto the rails before he sees all the massacred people.
Naw, I think it's just a natural sense of reverence a mechanically-inclined individual or the actual operator of machinery would show towards their machines. Even though the engine was wrecked and may very well be destroyed by advancing Allied forces, he undertook the proper protocol to correctly shut it down! I am of course thinking you were referring to these moments of the movie, which are not actually shown in this video. Just before the actual beginning of this video, he had arrived and shut it down, then noticed the carnage. The reverence I refer to would be similar to shutting your car off and locking the doors as you abandoned it before an advancing forest fire overtook it.
I heard from the movie “The Train” is a based off on a true story like probably in the 1940’s where war started happening and it still is going on. Then they started to make the movie in the 1960’s.
Once the hostages were on board the train, it would have made sense to let the train and the paintings go on their way: the Germans were clearly retreating and were on borrowed time: the paintings would be given TLC and would have survived the war and the hostages would have a chance of surviving, once the paintings were safe. Labiche should have realised early on, rather than at the end, that the paintings weren't worth the loss of a single life but then again, there'd have been no plot and no picture had he done so
Spot on, which made Labiche a great character! :D Also it was extremely arrogant and stupid of the colonel to underestimate Labiche who was holding the gun and could have mowed him down in an instant, and wouldn't you know it, he did. LOL
The Colonel loved the paintings the artwork more than his own life they truly belong to him or a man like him! “Martini drinker” Not a beer drinking football jersey wearing Labiche of the world!
@@malafakka8530 very true but too a certain type aka class of people that can appreciate the artworks! The colonel was referring to Labich as not that type! Hence the string of pearls on an ape statement!
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You think he is no hero take that back general he is one of the good guys you are the lowest of the cowards who think humans are just paintings those were innocent friends of his you took them for no reason whatsoever poor Levi take care of him let him have it.
The Colonel realize Labich had thwarted (deafeated him ) through luck Using up what little time the Colonel had remaining, a defeated army on the run! At this point the Colonel knew it, But the paintings to him were more Precious than his own life! They belong to me or a man like me! The Colonel didn’t care at this point whether he lived or died! “Without the paintings.” And Labich killed him for the Shooting of the civilians! But I didn’t see the Colonel order it! Was the order given by major to the Sargent ?
According to film legend, Frankenheimer and Lancaster were having trouble deciding how the ending would go. They knew Von Waldheim was going to die but they didn't have a scene that fit the narrative. So Lancaster said "Why don't we have him commit suicide?". Hence, t he final scene.
No way this film could be remade, todays films are all CGI bullshit, all crashes and explosions were all done for real . No CGI crap will ever beat the real thing, which is why this film stands the test of time. The Train must be the most underrated film of all time.
In terms of story and characters it could be, but there would be no way in hell in today's world could there be a way to get REAL trains with REAL people to do the kind of stunts they pulled off in this movie. Especially seeing how now the trains required are priceless antiques and couldn't be risked.
Because today's teen-20's audiences want to see their own generation's actors in color with more action and of course, sex scenes. Even my own generation of people (baby boomers) often won't watch B&W films.
0:30 to 2:04 "Labiche! Here's your prize Labiche. Some of the greatest paintings in the world. Does it please you, Labiche? You feel a sense of excitement at just being near them? A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. You won by sheer luck. You stopped me without knowing what you were doing or why.... You are nothing Labiche, a lump of flesh. The paintings are mine. They always will be. Beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it. They will always belong to me, or a man like me. Now, this minute, you couldn't tell me why you did what you did." -- Colonel Von Waldheim's last words before being shot by Paul Labiche
The colonel was wrong. He could tell him why he just didn't choose to. But he also knew that a bunch of good men that he worked with died to stop that train.
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What an astonishing ending. After shooting the German Lancaster says nothing. The only thing that is heard is the repeating air pump on the locomotive. He just walks away leaving all that he had heroically fought for behind. Mysterious and wonderful!
The air pump adds to the haunting ending of the movie aswell... love it.
One of my favorite movies! Lancaster and Scofield at their best!
Quite simply one of the best films ever made.
Very underrated film. Lancaster and Schofield also appeared in Scorpio (1974) along with Alain Delon. I always admired Lancaster for his willingness to extend his range and appear in films like The Leopard and Conversation Piece. He was very much more than an action hero here
And let's not forget "The Swimmer" -- a great examination of a narcissist's mid-life crisis.
The first time i watched this movie on DVD, the moment LaBiche saw the dead bodies, it brought a lump to my throat. This was one of the best ever war films ever made.
The very last image in the movie, of LaBiche walking back on an empty road, a train stopped, the bodies of the dead and great art work strewn haphazardly in boxes, is the perfect allegory of Europe at the end of World War II.
Well said there evil will exist as long as man's hatred towards one another exists!
Even the railway and the locomotive, once the pinnacle of European technical supremacy and Imperial might, as key to their empires as the roads were to the Romans. Lies broken amidst the wreckage, it’s air pump tolling like a church bell for the dead.
I always felt like the steam pump you hear in every shot with the locomotive nearby (the infrequent chuff-chuff noise in the background) was the bell tolling for all the lost lives. On and on, the bodies just keep mounting....
Back in the '50s and early '60s there was a forge (long since gone) on a road near my house and that monotonous steam-pump sound (coming here from the stationary loco) could be heard all day when you were at home: it was inescapable.
I was born in 1940 …. watching movies ever since. THE TRAIN still one of the best !
Well an old war flims were like original wars
I don't know how to say this but... you must have see so many things and know so many things that I'm, as somebody who was born after 1990 am a little bit jealous. lol
And I want to tell you something more about how I know this great movie, I watched it on Arte HD (a German TV programm) in German and I must say this has be to one of the best movies that I've ever seen. The movie is seriously but funny at some times in a great mix. (Sorry for my English)
Also: I like history and "funnily"? I like the war geography more that the normal because I like to know how every country has found it's place ? I hope that makes any sense. While I and my father were watching the movie, my dad (who isn't that old??lol) told me more about some things like if the French people (you know the scene where they try to make the one German on the train, think that they are driving somewhere else as they're really are, like changing the sings of the villages) that if they did that back then and they would get caught, that it might happen that they would murder a whole village. Like wtf, WHY? just another reason to don't like them to ad to the long list. lol
Now that was long :D have a nice day ❤🌷
Are you die
One of the most haunting endings to one of the most underrated period/action films of all time. There's a poetry in this film I cannot describe. It's like a heroic epic shown through the lense of a dirtied glass. It's ironic that the "pride of France" is saved by men who couldn't care less while the villian of the film is the one who couldn't care more. Boxes and bodies strewn before him, and yet Lancaster holds that steely-eyed gaze like a starved wolf. He's exhausted by war and I don't blame him. (Check out the movie if you can).
Lucas Davis lul
Another irony is is Labiche, who doesn't care about the paintings, only human lives, loses all of his friends who DID care and survives, alone, while von Waldheim, who cares more about the paintings than human lives, dies and is outlived by all of his men who don't care about the paintings. The men are equals and opposites. The only deaths are those who care about the paintings while the cynics survive.
This is actually a remake of a French film made much earlier
a very moving ending indeed. are the people who where shot by the Germans in front of the derailed engine meant to be railwaymen?
engine drivers, firemen and engineers
The fact that Lancaster listened, turned and looked at the dead Frenchmen and said nothing...nothing...just prior to machine gunning the Colonel. It's what made this scene so realistic and powerful. Not a word of dialogue from Burt, and it said it all. A brilliant scene. Memorable. Classic. They don't do this today. Somehow, today's directors don't know how to create such intensity from facial drama. John Frankenheimer -- he made a masterpiece.
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True.
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The Colonel played by Paul Scofield was highly regarded stage actor and Oscar winner. His steely resolve to confront BL is classic.
John LaStrada so true so true
Lancaster was not pretending a limp in this scene....he actually injured himself earlier while doing his own stunts
Thought he hurt his ankle golfing ?
@@zzirSnipzz1 he did
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My Dad was a Steam Engine driver and this was always his favourite movie of all time.
Ginger Megs my great grandfather was a steam engine driver, sadly never got to meet him
@@forrestcalkins93 Awesome Skills!
I like the way the Guy reacted at being gunned. He didnt shook his body as If he was having a seizure like most Characters do when being machine gunned; he Just Fell. Feels more believable.
The air pump you are hearing on the locomotive is the steam operated air compressor pumping.
1:50 the way he looks at the body’s…it’s like he is saying “I don’t do this for paintings…I do this for the blood you spilled”
Great starcast, direction,editing n composition,one of the finest movie of 1964.Burt Lancaster n Paul Scofield at their best.Myst watch for new generation.
I love the camera angles. The black and white film worked best. It portrays the total waste of war. I have seen pictures of the ruin and waste after a war and it never grows old, the amazing stupidity of war. I love the part where the german officer says, we have lost the war.
in the end, Von Waldheim's lack of value for Human life over lifeless paintings saw to his destruction. you didn't have to hear Labiche say it: his glance at the massacred men said it all: "I did it for them."
It's also noteworthy Labiche - who valued human life about the paintings - loses all of his friends, whereas von Waldheim - as you say cares only about the paintings - is outlived by all of his men.
And...Vive le France!
0:30 to 2:04 "Labiche! Here's your prize Labiche. Some of the greatest paintings in the world. Does it please you, Labiche? You feel a sense of excitement at just being near them? A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. You won by sheer luck. You stopped me without knowing what you were doing or why.... You are nothing Labiche, a lump of flesh. The paintings are mine. They always will be. Beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it. They will always belong to me, or a man like me. Now, this minute, you couldn't tell me why you did what you did." -- Colonel Von Waldheim's last words before being shot by Paul Labiche
Cutting to the chase .............. it's one of my favorites on so many levels.
I honestly don't think Von Waldheim cared: he knew that he wasn't going to get his prize: hence why he stayed behind when he could have left.
This is one of the many great World War Two movies that most people have never heard about
Man this is the most scene that gives me some kind of feeling
Thanks for analyzing yourself so deeply. ;-)
A film that really stands the test of time.
One of the best movies I have seen in my life time.
POWERFUL POWERFUL SCENE.
Saw this late in my life a couple of years ago. Action packed classic!
Another great movie,
"The Manchurian Candidate"
both directed by the great
John Frankenheimer!
great film, didn't make much money, but it's classic--awesome acting based on true story--well done
Great acting throughout this film, Awesome 👏
I've seen this wonderful movie many times. And I always wonder at the end if Labiche was actually going to try to back that locomotive onto the rails before he sees all the massacred people.
Naw, I think it's just a natural sense of reverence a mechanically-inclined individual or the actual operator of machinery would show towards their machines. Even though the engine was wrecked and may very well be destroyed by advancing Allied forces, he undertook the proper protocol to correctly shut it down! I am of course thinking you were referring to these moments of the movie, which are not actually shown in this video. Just before the actual beginning of this video, he had arrived and shut it down, then noticed the carnage. The reverence I refer to would be similar to shutting your car off and locking the doors as you abandoned it before an advancing forest fire overtook it.
Love this film. Its amazing.
That lumb of flesh can sure handle a machine pistol
....and the bullets past through him hit the paintings. DOH!!! 😲
I heard from the movie “The Train” is a based off on a true story like probably in the 1940’s where war started happening and it still is going on. Then they started to make the movie in the 1960’s.
Very good movie
Superbe film.... j'aimerai le revoir.
Just watching this film right now 👍
Thank you for posting a valuable video.
Once the hostages were on board the train, it would have made sense to let the train and the paintings go on their way: the Germans were clearly retreating and were on borrowed time: the paintings would be given TLC and would have survived the war and the hostages would have a chance of surviving, once the paintings were safe. Labiche should have realised early on, rather than at the end, that the paintings weren't worth the loss of a single life but then again, there'd have been no plot and no picture had he done so
Powerful Film.
Paul Scofield + Burt Lancaster y Michel Simon. No sé por qué Jeanne Moreau odiaba esta cinta, una de las mejores de guerra.
Spot on, which made Labiche a great character! :D Also it was extremely arrogant and stupid of the colonel to underestimate Labiche who was holding the gun and could have mowed him down in an instant, and wouldn't you know it, he did. LOL
As others have noted, I think von Waldheim wanted to goad Labiche into killing him. If he couldn't have the paintings, he didn't want to live.
AishaVonFossen The Colonel was committing suicide by goading Labiche into shooting him because he accepted defeat.
The Colonel loved the paintings the artwork more than his own life they truly belong to him or a man like him! “Martini drinker” Not a beer drinking football jersey wearing Labiche of the world!
@@turkey0165 if anything they belonged to the country they were from.
@@malafakka8530 very true but too a certain type aka class of people that can appreciate the artworks! The colonel was referring to Labich as not that type!
Hence the string of pearls on an ape statement!
Thanks for the video.Sorry to have to live with this kind of people .No answer can be given,a wonderful video , return unto Caeser ....
Seen this movie action all the way through
John frankenheimer directed this ww2 movie
Burt Lancaster, un maestro, como siempre.
Pero Paul Scofield, un genio insuperable. En la película "El hombre de dos reinos", fue un dios.-
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Amazing film
When l was just a young boy my dad would wake me up to come down and watch this movie...
Nightmares caught you lackin
We always ❤️ win🏆 ✌️ because we're still human beings
He let his MP40 do all the explaining.
THAT Colonel THE GERMAN IN HIM !!!I IRON And NO FEAR Of Death ONLY the MADNESS of TRUE OBSESION 😳😣g
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What! No Van Gogh or Monet paintings! And he calls himself a art enthusiast.
That German was wrong........he could have told him why. But if he had would that German officer understood it? I doubt it.
Exactly he would not have understood it his arrogance would not have allowed him to.
B.Lankaster...veri gud!
Masterpeice g
Do you guys think Labiche survived the walk to a nearby village and got his wound healed by a village doctor?
labiche was fine.
You think he is no hero take that back general he is one of the good guys you are the lowest of the cowards who think humans are just paintings those were innocent friends of his you took them for no reason whatsoever poor Levi take care of him let him have it.
Gérard Calvi porte bien son costume rouge
OBSSESION !!!😣Kills ALL GOOD g
10/10
Baral se promène avec une carte caché et sa femme fait 10 crêpes au rhum
So. Who's a lump of flesh now?
Wow he killed Hitler!
French Resistance on Train.
Why didn't the German kill labiche when labiches back was turned?
The Colonel realize Labich had thwarted (deafeated him ) through luck Using up what little time the Colonel had remaining, a defeated army on the run! At this point the Colonel knew it, But the paintings to him were more Precious than his own life! They belong to me or a man like me! The Colonel didn’t care at this point whether he lived or died! “Without the paintings.” And Labich killed him for the Shooting of the civilians! But I didn’t see the Colonel order it! Was the order given by major to the Sargent ?
Как-то спокойно среагировал немецкий офицер на попадания из автомата. Просто - упал.
НЕ ВЕРЮ!!!
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Ginsberg le violon
Gutsy Kraut.
+Mistermax30 I've always been convinced that Von Waldheim wanted to die at that point. He had nothing else to live for.
According to film legend, Frankenheimer and Lancaster were having trouble deciding how the ending would go. They knew Von Waldheim was going to die but they didn't have a scene that fit the narrative. So Lancaster said "Why don't we have him commit suicide?". Hence, t
he final scene.
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I think a remake would be better
No way this film could be remade, todays films are all CGI bullshit, all crashes and explosions were all done for real . No CGI crap will ever beat the real thing, which is why this film stands the test of time. The Train must be the most underrated film of all time.
In terms of story and characters it could be, but there would be no way in hell in today's world could there be a way to get REAL trains with REAL people to do the kind of stunts they pulled off in this movie. Especially seeing how now the trains required are priceless antiques and couldn't be risked.
Why a remake?
Because today's teen-20's audiences want to see their own generation's actors in color with more action and of course, sex scenes. Even my own generation of people (baby boomers) often won't watch B&W films.
Bullshit. It would be pure garbage like the vast majority of remakes....
Lancaster was a TERRIBLE actor. The only believable role he played was in From Here to Eternity. He ALWAYS over acted his roles.
he didn't overact. he was just burt lancaster.
Erase this kind of crap movies
erase people with bad taste.
0:30 to 2:04 "Labiche! Here's your prize Labiche. Some of the greatest paintings in the world. Does it please you, Labiche? You feel a sense of excitement at just being near them? A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. You won by sheer luck. You stopped me without knowing what you were doing or why.... You are nothing Labiche, a lump of flesh. The paintings are mine. They always will be. Beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it. They will always belong to me, or a man like me. Now, this minute, you couldn't tell me why you did what you did." -- Colonel Von Waldheim's last words before being shot by Paul Labiche
The colonel was wrong. He could tell him why he just didn't choose to.
But he also knew that a bunch of good men that he worked with died to stop that train.
@@navblue20 I think Labiche, in a way, told Von Waldheim a lot by looking at the dead before shooting Von Waldheim
@@Contrajoe really is that what he said before he shot him