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Actors: Burt Lancaster, Michel Simon, Jeanne Moreau, Paul Scofield, Albert Rémy, Jacques Marin
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Train |
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THE TRAIN is a movie directed by John Frankenheimer in 1964. The picture earned a nomination for the Academy Award in the Best Screenplay directly written for the screen category.
As the Allies move near to Paris, Col. Von Waldheim loads a train with valuable paintings robbed from the French museums. Burt Lancaster and the French Resistance will do the impossible to prevent the train from leaving the French territory.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Train |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Civilian Resistance
Specific to
- WW II
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- valuable art
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- engineer
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair style
- short/standard curly (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Hair color
- white
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
Forest?
Yes
Misc setting
- moving train
- cave
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
Kind of violence:
- mission to protect something
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Check here if B&W
Yes
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
- exploding bombs
Is this movie based on a
- book
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