Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TRAIN. Boxcars full of French art are the rolling stock of Director John Frankenheimer's muscular World War II drama about a Nazi colonel (Paul Scofield) and a Resistance leader (Burt Lancaster), playing tug-of-war with trains...
...newspaper will continue to public after the summer, "We'll give preface in recruiting," Miss Lake said, "to he who can stay in Atlanta for a year more, and train 15 Atlanta Negroes and this summer so that local people ultimately assume responsibility for news paper...
...hero, Lancaster slides down embankments, scales walls and leaps on and off cannonballing locomotives, spurning all stunt-man fakery. But not for a moment does he seem to be a French patriot named Labiche, and Train slows to a crawl when he abruptly turns culture-conscious, exhorting his comrades in rah-team dialogue to risk their necks for art: "It's our national heritage-the glory of France!" To make Lancaster's accent less obtrusive, the voices of Michel Simon and other French conspirators are poorly dubbed into working-class Americanese. Scofield, a gaunt attention-getter in accented...
When outdoor commotion is uppermost, which means most of the time, Director Frankenheimer barrels along on a track that really wails. The art train steams toward, then away from, the German border, cunningly diverted by a Resistance plot that disguises whole villages along the route. It squeaks through a spectacular 50-second bombing raid in which a Nazi armored train is pulverized-a scene achieved with 140 charges of dynamite, nine cameras, several dozen expendable engines and boxcars purchased from French National Railroads, and considerable ingenuity on the part of Special Effects Ace Lee Zavitz (who arranged the burning...
...mile odyssey to Durban, South Africa, to find his aunt. He joins a Syrian peddler in the desert and, when the Syrian meets disaster, takes his muiles and money and continues south. He eludes well-meaning tourists near Luxor, covers nearly 2,000 tense miles by boat, train and foot before he falls in with a grizzled old diamond poacher (Robinson) whose wilderness hideout looks like paradise enough...