The Train Tribute

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  • Опубликовано: 7 авг 2022
  • Another video tribute to a classic movie. The Train. At least one that I feel is a classic. Directed by John Frankenheimer, it's a story about obsession that could be seen as a variation of Moby DIck. As Paris is about to fall to Allied forces in 1944, Paul Scofield is Colonel Von Waldheim, a German officer that steals a trainload of "degenerate" art to Germany to help finance the Nazi war effort. Burt Lancaster is French Resistance leader Labiche. He initially refuses to waste lives stopping the train. But as he watches his friends die one after the other trying to stop The Train, he becomes obsessed with stopping The Train. An epic battle of wills ensues. Von Waldheim, obsessed with his goal of taking the paintings to Germany, and Labiche, who doesn't give a shit about the paintings, but becomes obsessed with preventing Waldheim from achieving his goal.
    All the train crashes are real. The steam engines had been decomissioned, and were to be sold off for scrap. So the producers could do whatever they wanted. A couple of cameras were destroyed during the filming of the trainwrecks. And they blew up the train station for real.
    Music is from the soundtrack to Sicario.
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Комментарии • 34

  • @degsbabe
    @degsbabe 6 месяцев назад +23

    Paul Scofield appeared in few films....but man he left his mark when he did. Won an oscar for his performance in ' A Man for all Seasons'. Great movie.

  • @ragnor56
    @ragnor56 4 месяца назад +18

    A gem of a movie overlooked as one of the epic war movies a superb cast of top tier actors & actresses portraying a true part of History during WWII

  • @MHDebidour
    @MHDebidour 6 месяцев назад +19

    Deeply underated movie

  • @drakefallentine8351
    @drakefallentine8351 24 дня назад +5

    Beautiful job editing, very focused on all the key points. Excellent.

  • @kayserbondor
    @kayserbondor 3 месяца назад +11

    Can’t think of a better train picture, something that can be watched over and over. I went on holiday to Switzerland in 1948, the train from Calais to Basle went through many of the stations portrayed in the film, France was still looking knocked about at the time.

    • @duncancurtis5108
      @duncancurtis5108 7 дней назад +1

      Today it's a backwater route linking up to Dijon and Charleville compared to the main line to Metz and Luxembourg.

  • @martinlewis5248
    @martinlewis5248 8 месяцев назад +15

    Great acting from Burton Lancaster rip

    • @Fat12219
      @Fat12219 Месяц назад

      Mr Burt Lancaster was a good actor 👏

  • @maxnielsen7667
    @maxnielsen7667 10 месяцев назад +14

    This film raises a very important moral issue. Are works of art more important than human life.? A great film. The dialogue is intense and thought provoking .

    • @kleetus92
      @kleetus92 Месяц назад

      Not if the art is going to be sold and used to buy more weapons...

    • @paulhicks6667
      @paulhicks6667 11 дней назад

      That was not the suggestion. In the film, the museum curator asks the Resistance leaders to stop the train and save the paintings. The Resistance leaders refuse to risk lives for mere paintings. But she explains that these paintings are France’s gift to the world. They are the embodiment of beauty, creativity, freedom of thought. The ideals for which France stands, and which Nazism wishes to destroy. This is the paintings value vs the value of the lives that must be risked to save them.

  • @suzanneceklund
    @suzanneceklund 9 месяцев назад +15

    Very well done! Your alternate music score accentuates the mood of this extraordinary film beautifully. I'm waiting for a remake with a cast of unknown scrawny French actors as the defiant resistance and a Nazi colonel of the caliber of Paul Scofield (although I can't imagine who that might be).

    • @DASCO2136
      @DASCO2136 2 месяца назад +1

      This is one movie that shouldn’t be remade. It’s a classic

  • @stevetillcock7361
    @stevetillcock7361 3 месяца назад +8

    Proud owner of the DVD.

  • @johnmurphy7953
    @johnmurphy7953 Месяц назад +2

    Excellent condensation of a superb B&W film.

  • @Eric-bf7iy
    @Eric-bf7iy 4 месяца назад +6

    Bravo!!!

  • @davejohns6694
    @davejohns6694 2 месяца назад +5

    A nihilistic ending, which in reality is how it falls out, no heroes or happy endings.

    • @warrendubeau851
      @warrendubeau851  2 месяца назад +2

      Yeah, Labiche didn't give a crap about the paintings. All he cared about was stopping the murderous Colonel Waldheim from achieving his goal. Waldheim's obsession was getting the paintings to Germany, and Labiche's obsession was stopping him. In the end, after stopping Waldheim, and saving the paintings, he still doesn't care about them and leaves them littering the ground.

  • @user-ng9ke4lb3r
    @user-ng9ke4lb3r 5 месяцев назад +5

    Como ya nos tienen a costumbrado muy buen trabajo la ciudad muy prolija saludos para ambos de Milton. De uruguay

  • @bird20040
    @bird20040 Год назад +8

    Nice

  • @robertseip210
    @robertseip210 Месяц назад +1

    Best movie ending of all time.

  • @robertharle6377
    @robertharle6377 Месяц назад

    What a Film!

  • @philippejenvrin2741
    @philippejenvrin2741 Месяц назад

    Very good movie !!❤

  • @donya186
    @donya186 4 месяца назад +4

    بادرود به شما
    عالی بود 🌺🌺🌺🖒

  • @fastmail55
    @fastmail55 Месяц назад

    Nicely done!

  • @juansanchezrovira7816
    @juansanchezrovira7816 22 дня назад

    Reparto de lujo:Paul Scofield, Burt Lancaster, Jeanne Moreau.... Y Michel Simon

  • @lexi_9995
    @lexi_9995 3 месяца назад +5

    6:40 this is what happens when you don't have a ticket in German occupied France.

  • @tonyrobb8815
    @tonyrobb8815 7 месяцев назад +6

    Hate to be picky..BUT!..His Knights Cross has the wrong attachments!

    • @warrendubeau851
      @warrendubeau851  6 месяцев назад +3

      I guess it's the button ribbon? That's pretty minor. There's some movie recently where some German officer's outfit is lifted from pretty much every service. I don't remember exactly, but it was something like he had a Wehrmacht jacket, SS shoulder flashes, a different unit's collar, Kriegsmarine decorations and a Luftwaffe cap.

    • @martinshephard6317
      @martinshephard6317 4 месяца назад +1

      Sounds like one of Goering’s uniforms!

  • @walterschumann2476
    @walterschumann2476 Месяц назад

    Good job, the art works are saved, but all the hostages are dead.

  • @falke_blade9341
    @falke_blade9341 Год назад +6

    dark and i love it