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(aka 'John Frankenheimer's The Train' or ' Le Train' or 'Il Treno')
Directed by
John Frankenheimer
USA 1964
Discount some self-conscious talk about Art as a national heritage, as well as clumsy dubbing of the supporting cast, and you have a rattling good thriller about a World War II German general (Scofield) determined to flee Paris just before the liberation with a trainload of Impressionist paintings. One obsession runs headlong into another as a French railway inspector (Lancaster), once unwillingly started out in opposition, finds he cannot stop, and must go on finding new ways and means of delaying the train for an hour here, a day there. 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. Excerpt from TimeOut Film Guide located HERE
*** From John Frankenheimer, the acclaimed director of The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, Seconds, Grand Prix and Black Sunday, comes this action-packed WWII masterpiece starring screen legend Burt Lancaster (Run Silent Run Deep, Elmer Gantry, The Professionals). Paris, August 1944… with the Allied army closing in on German commander and art fanatic Colonel Franz Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons), he decides to steal a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. But when a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim’s scheme, Labiche (Lancaster), a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost. Calling upon his vast arsenal of skills, Labiche unleashes a torrent of devastation and destruction—loosened rails, shattered tracks and head-on collisions—in an impassioned, suspense-filled quest for justice, retribution and revenge. Featuring a top-notch score by Maurice Jarre (Doctor Zhivago) and a wonderful supporting performance by screen icon Jeanne Moreau (Viva Maria!), The Train was the fourth of five collaborations between filmmaker Frankenheimer and star Lancaster. |
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Theatrical Release: September 22nd, 1964
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Review: Kino - Region FREE - 4K UHD
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Runtime | 2:13:00.416 | |
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1.66:1 2160P 4K Ultra HD Disc Size: 99,571,912,264 bytesFeature: 98,330,082,624 bytes Video Bitrate: 73.38 MbpsCodec: HEVC Video |
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DTS-HD Master
Audio English 1601 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1601 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 /
48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) Dolby Digital
Audio English 128 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 128 kbps / DN -31dB Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / DN -31dB |
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Subtitles | English (SDH), None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Kino
1.66:1 2160P 4K Ultra HD Disc Size: 99,571,912,264 bytesFeature: 98,330,082,624 bytes Video Bitrate: 73.38 MbpsCodec: HEVC Video
Edition Details: 4K Ultra HD disc
• Audio Commentary by Director John Frankenheimer
Kino - Region 'A' -
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On their
4K UHD,
Kino offer the option of DTS-HD Master
tracks in 2.0 channel (default) or a 5.1 surround bump. Both are 24-bit,
in the original English language. There are effects - locomotives
(obviously,) and wrecks of such, fires, explosions, Spitfire attacking
scene and 'Air Douglas A-26 Invaders - plus a few sneaky separations in
the bump. I recommend the original, flat audio option. Dubbing can appear obvious. Maurice Jarre's (The
Tin Drum,
The Man Who Would Be King,
The Damned,
The The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds
etc.) score still sounds great and
is also available as an isolated option (like all other Blu-rays)
in lossless. Kino add optional English subtitles on their Region 'A' Blu-ray
disc and optional English subtitles on their
4K UHD disc, which is region FREE,
playable worldwide.
There are
extras on the
4K UHD disc - the
previous audio commentary by director John Frankenheimer add the newer one
by Steve Mitchell and
Combat Films: American
Realism author Steven Jay Rubin, found on the 2021
Blu-ray
and there is the option of the isolated
score. Mitchell + Rubin laud the film and discuss the deep focus photography
to the dialogue about morality, the value of art to it being one of the last
great action films to be shot in black and white, and the value of character
actors and Burt Lancaster being the only American actor in the film - plus
much more. It's great and further ignited my appreciation of
John Frankenheimer's The
Train. In total, including the second disc
Blu-ray,
there seems to be most of the previously released extras included on the
2021 Kino adding a 6-minute 1964 Making-of The Train - newly mastered
in 2K that has many behind the scenes sequences of the filming. Included is
a 'Trailers From
Hell' episode with Brian Trenchard-Smith running over 5-minutes, a
lengthy theatrical trailer, Teaser, TV Spot, the package has a slipcase,
booklet essay by film historian Julie Kirgo (on previous
Blu-ray) and reversible art
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