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The Train Movie Review Summary

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Michel Simon, Jeanne Moreau, Paul Scofield, Albert Rémy, Jacques Marin

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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.
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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.



The review of this Movie prepared by Daniel Staebler



Script Analysis of The Train

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Plot & Themes

Composition of Book 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 Ethnicity/Nationality    -   French

Setting

Europe    -   Yes European country:    -   France Forest?    -   Yes Misc setting    -   moving train    -   cave

Writing Style

Accounts of torture and death?    -   moderately messy visuals of dead Kind of violence:    -   guns    -   knives Unusual forms of death    -   perforation--bullets    -   perforation--swords/knives Lot of special effects?    -   Yes Kinds of F/X    -   exploding vehicles    -   exploding bombs Is this movie based on a    -   book

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