: The Train
Director: John Franenheimer
Why haven’t I ever heard of this film? Excellent, really superb! It’s a taut WWII drama about the French underground attempting to stop a train of priceless paintings (worth billions: stuff by Picasso, Cezane, Monet, etc.) from being shipped to Germany in the last days before the Allies regained Paris. The lengths these people go to to save these paintings are amazing — I won’t spoil it by describing it, but let’s just say it’s a plot involving hundreds of railway people deceiving the Germans by making them think the train’s on it’s way to Germany but really it’s going in the opposite direction! Excellent: a non-stop thriller! (And I don’t even like war movies.)
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