The Train Blu-ray
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Posted October 6, 2020 04:00 PM by Webmaster
Kino Lorber have announced that they will release on Blu-ray John Frankenheimer's The Train (1964), starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, and Michel Simon. The release will be available for purchase on January 5.
Synopsis: With the Allies poised to retake Paris from the Germans, Col. Franz Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) conspires to sneak out by train all of the art masterpieces looted by the German army. But museum curator Mademoiselle Villard (Suzanne Flon) alerts the French Resistance, and soon railway inspector Paul Labiche (Burt Lancaster) is pressed into service. He reroutes the train, and cleverly deceives Von Waldheim by renaming each train station along the way.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Synopsis: With the Allies poised to retake Paris from the Germans, Col. Franz Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) conspires to sneak out by train all of the art masterpieces looted by the German army. But museum curator Mademoiselle Villard (Suzanne Flon) alerts the French Resistance, and soon railway inspector Paul Labiche (Burt Lancaster) is pressed into service. He reroutes the train, and cleverly deceives Von Waldheim by renaming each train station along the way.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films: American Realism Author Steven Jay Rubin
- Audio Commentary by John Frankenheimer
- Optional Isolated Score by Maurice Jarre
- Trailers From Hell with Brian Trenchard-Smith
- Trailer
- Booklet Essay by critic Julie Kirgo
- Limited Edition Slipcase
- Reversible Art
- Optional English subtitles for the main feature
