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"Paris, August 1944. With the Allied army closing in, German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) steals a vast collection of rare French Paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. But when a beloved French patroiot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche (Burt Lancaster), a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost. ---"@en
"WWII thriller about a French railway inspector whose low-key resistance efforts become vitally urgent when the Nazis try to steal a trainload of France's most treasured paintings, and it's up to him to stop the train."
"WWII thriller about a French railway inspector whose low-key resistance efforts become vitally urgent when the Nazis try to steal a trainload of France's most treasured paintings, and it's up to him to stop the train."@en
"Burt Lancaster is a railway inspector who courageously leads the French Resistance in battle against the Nazis. A train carrying hundreds of valuable paintings from a French museum rushes past the wartorn French countryside into the arms of the Germans."@en
"Labiche is an inspector of the French National Railroads, and leader of the Underground. When he discovers a German plot to steal a priceless collection of French art treasures and ferry them by train into Germany, he devises a desperate plan to stall the train, knowing that the advancing Allies are only a few miles distant."@en
""As Allied forces approach German-occupied Paris in the summer of 1944, a Wehrmacht officer, Col. Franz von Waldheim, receives orders from Göring to assemble the art treasures of the Jeu de Paume Museum and transport them to Germany. Mademoiselle Villard, curator of the museum, informs the Resistance of the plan and tries to persuade Labiche, area inspector of French railways, to intercept the priceless cargo. Labiche, however, is more concerned with saving lives than in preserving art, and he devotes his energies to sabotaging an armaments train. While Allied bombs are destroying the munitions, Papa Boule, an old railwayman, succeeds in burning out the engines of the train bearing the art treasures but pays for his act with his life. The enraged von Waldheim places Labiche in charge of moving the art train out of Paris. Labiche, now won over to the side of the Resistance mainly through the influence of a widowed hotelkeeper, Christine, arranges a complicated series of strategems that lead the Nazis to believe the train has passed into Germany while, in reality, it has merely been shuttled around Paris and returned to its original depot. Upon discovering the deception, von Waldheim places French hostages on the train and orders it moved. As Labiche once more intervenes by having it derailed, von Waldheim has the hostages shot; but his own men panic and join the retreating Wehrmacht. Left alone, the two equally obsessed men face each other. Labiche kills von Waldheim and walks slowly away, leaving scattered paintings on the tracks"--AFI catalog, 1961-1970."@en
"En 1944, la Résistance française essaye d'empêcher un train chargé d'oeuvres d'art de gagner le territoire allemand... Un film spectaculaire, mais sans âme et sans lyrisme..."
"World War II drama about a French railway inspector whose low-key Resistance efforts become urgent when the Nazis attempt to steal a trainload of France's most treasured paintings."
"A French railway inspector thwarts the efforts of a Nazi general to make off with stolen art treasures as the Allied forces approach during the last days of World War II."@en
"Paris, août 1944. Alors que les Alliés font des avancées spectaculaires, un officier allemand grand amateur d'Art, dérobe une collection de tableaux français et les dissimule dans un train en direction de Berlin. Un membre de la résistance décide alors de stopper le train, à n'importe quel prix.. Avec Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Michel Simon, Suzanne Flon, Wolfgang Preiss, Richard Munch, Jeanne Moreau."
"Lancaster stars as a French railway inspector who works with the French resistance to keep a trainload of paintings from French museums out of the hands of the Nazis who captured them."
"In August 1944 the Allied army is closing in on Paris. German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. When a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche, a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost."@en
"In August 1944 the Allied army is closing in on Paris. German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. When a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche, a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost."
"The Allied army is closing in on Paris in August 1944. German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim (Scofield) steals a collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. When a beloved French patriot is murdered, stalwart Resistance member Labiche (Lancaster) vows to stop the train at any cost."
"Paris, August 1944. With the Allied army closing in, German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) steals a vast collection of rare French Paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. But when a beloved French patroiot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche (Burt Lancaster), a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost."@en
"Burt Lancaster stars in this action-packed, WWII thriller about a French railway inspector whose low-key Resistance efforts become vitally urgent when the Nazis try to steal a trainload of France's most treasured paintings, and it's up to him to stop the train."@en
""Al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, ante la inminente liberación de París, el coronel alemán Von Waldheim pretende llevar las obras más emblemáticas de la pintura impresionista a territorio alemán. La directora del museo que custodia estas le propone a Labiche, encargado de la compañía de ferrocarriles, una acción de sabotaje para impedir el expolio. Pero, aunque Labiche se niega a sacrificar vidas por lo que considera solo unos cuadros, un incidente le hará cambiar de opinión""