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Best movie of this year hands down!

Real surprise, this for me, particularly bearing in mind the length (which I wasn't aware of till after watching) never mind the genre! But, forget 'long war film' and think Burt Lancaster giving his all, low key naturalistic acting and a stinking physical performance. It appears at first as if he is just going to be some suited 'yes' man for the Germans but then gets put upon to drive the contentious train. We are not quite sure at the start as to who cares what about this enormous collection of French impressionist paintings and by the end we are wondering about human life versus oil paintings. In between there is the most incredible non stop, human story driven, massive action film with the most amazing steam train action I've ever seen. Nobody comes out of this particularly well but that we are not held up for mournful moments with dying children or romantic pauses for divided lovers, just full on desperate people getting on and doing what seems best without to much pause for thought or much else. The night scenes are particularly effective with the great monstrous engines pulsing along, smoke billowing. Aircraft attacks add to the thrills but it is still Lancaster that dominates the screen. What a presence.

John Frankenheimer's thrilling war drama 'The Train' concerns an elaborate railroad resistance plot to keep a train full of French art treasures from being shipped to Germany, in the waning days of the war.As Allied forces are about to liberate France on August 2, 1944 and are bearing down on Paris, a fanatical aesthete, Col. Waldheim (splendidly played by Paul Scofield) convinces his recalcitrant superiors to allocate a much-needed train to highball art treasures of the Jeu de Paume Museumt by arguing that they're worth a billion German marks. Soon the museum is emptied of France's national art heritage, as priceless and irreplaceable art works are cherry picked by Waldheim and placed in crates in the boxcars of a train heading for Germany. The curator of the museum informs the Resistance of the train shipment and tries to persuade Labiche (Burt Lancaster), the earthy inspector of French railways and secretly a member of the Resistance, to intercept the invaluable treasured cargo and not destroy it. He is initially reluctant to sacrifice men for paintings but finally gives in when an old engineer, almost his foster father, is killed by the Germans for trying to hold up the art train. Now committed to do anything to stop the art treasures from leaving France, he puts an elaborate plot into action which involves driving the train around in circles by having the stations en-route change their names and orchestrating a collision of two steam locomotives.Even at 133 minutes, there's scarcely a second of The Train that doesn't move it forward on the tracks. Though The Train is a marvel of old-fashioned action craft, from invisible dolly shots of breathtaking sophistication to the careful staging of massive railway catastrophes, it's not a thoughtless adventure by any means. In Frankenheimer's hands, the whole paraphernalia of trains, tracks and shunting yards acquires an almost hypnotic fascination as the screen becomes a giant chessboard on which huge metallic pawns are maneuvered, probing for some fatal weakness but seemingly engaged in some deadly primeval struggle. The action scenes hold up really well nearly five decades on largely because Frankenheimer crashes real steam locomotives on several occasions — including a three-way pileup that puts any modern CGI conflagration to shame. All the film's movement of railway equipment, chases and train collisions provide nail-biting suspense and are accomplished with great skill.It all adds up to a thrilling, ingenious World War II drama that still ranks as one of the best train movies of all time.

I agree that this movie is one of the greatest. One way to judge the quality of a movie is by how many number times one can watch it and still not be bored. After some movies I never want to see them again… ever. The Train, however, is one of those movies that I have watched many times over, and will again.However, the main reason I am writing this review is to mention that the DVD I have, like many new DVD's, has an option to play a talk-over by someone associated with the movie. Here John Frankenheimer has that role. I believe his work here is the best and finest talk-over job ever done for a movie DVD. His performance here should be held up as the finest example of this type of work. Anyone considering doing a DVD talk-over for a movie should listen to Frankenheimer here and replicate the approach. How many times have I turn on a DVD movie talk-over and then, after a few minutes, turned off the babbling nonsense that has nothing to do with the movie. Frankenheimer performance here matches the movie. He does not talk about anything else but the making of the movie and follows his comments with the action seen on the movie. I enjoy this immensely. You should, too

John Frankenheimer does a first-rate job directing this riveting and atmospheric WWII film set in August 1944, as the approaching Allies are forcing a German retreat from France, but a German commander(Paul Scofield) arranges for the French art treasures he values to smuggled out of the country in secret by train. Burt Lancaster plays station master Labiche, who is in charge of making the trip run smoothly, but is also a member of the resistance, so must delay the train as much as possible, then when no more delays will be tolerated, actively tries to sabotage the train, no matter the cost, though he is also ordered to not damage any of the valuable paintings, which are France's heritage.Burt Lancaster is excellent here, both in his performance and how he handles the physical action, which is most impressive, as is the on location filming, giving this picture a welcome look of authenticity, and building to an action-packed finale.