Pros: Story, Direction, Cinematography, Acting, Score Cons: A good story is so hard to find!
John Frankenheimer learned to direct doing gritty black and white dramas for television's Playhouse 90. He brought the considerable skills he developed there to bear in the offbeat thriller 1964's The Train. The Train represents ...
Picasso. Cézanne. Miró. Matisse. Van Gogh. All the artistic treasures of the French art museum had survived the war. But now with the Germans in full retreat some wanted to take valuable souvenirs back to The Third Reich. When Colonel von ...
Pros: actioner with great noir imagery and perfs Cons: maybe a liitle more focus on the actual art would've been a nice touch
A gripping high-contrast black and white film from 1965 The Train, directed by John Frankenheimer pays off in every way. Shot on location in France, there is not a mundane moment in the 133-minute movie. The Train has as its central conflict the ...
Pros: Great performances from Lancaster, Scofield and the supporting cast; great action; well-directed; heady theme Cons: None of any consequence
Hollywood often lures talented European directors to America, but once in a while, the current flows retrograde. John Frankenheimer, for example, had firmly established his reputation as a filmmaker working in Hollywood and then took his talent to ...
Pros: good, focused action film, Frankenheimer's direction. Cons: I liked some of Frankenheimer's other films better.
Many of the roles that I’ve seen Burt Lancaster play have involved strong personalities, such as the corrupt preacher in Elmer Gantry, the prisoner in Bird Man in Alcatraz, and the gossip columnist in Sweet Smell of Success. All of these ...
Throughout the 1960s, as in the previous two decades, American studios continued to produce big budget films about World War II. The best of these was probably The Longest Day (1962).
Action - general DVD - John Frankenheimer directs Burt Lancaster in the tense spy thriller The Train. Lancaster plays Labiche, a French railway inspec...More at Barnes and Noble
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