The Train -- Ending

[bv141a]

shoot him Burt,great ending

[1912fld]

this is one of the best movies EVER - love the train scenes. great cinematography. There won't be another film like this again.

[PENNSY671E]

The camera work genius of John Frankenheimer, along with a supurb score by Maurice Jarre and a terrific acting corps, led by the stunting of Burt Lancaster himself, should make this required viewing for anyone going to film-making.

[FWDORA9]

"A string of Pearls to a Ape"....2:15...LOL

[burugogorra68]

Mi macuto... me lo quitaron tambien.

Madrid.Libre circulación d chata.rra. Semiótica. Putas rehenes, nazis hechiceras... 

[RodneyAHampton]

Great movie and great ending.

[pyrofella]

Great movie

[The3Reich]

was issn das für ein Dreck ....???

[killer4u10]

this is one of my favorite moives because it has alot of action

[QuatermassMan]

This is one of the most overlooked films of all time. The critics love it. Every review I've ever read of this film has been terrific. But the PEOPLE need to see it. This last scene alone is worth it. So emotional yet so quiet. The music is, to me, one of the best film scores ever written. John Frankenheimer...we need more like you. Burt Lancaster and Paul Schofield....come back to us!

[vincentyeo88]

@QuatermassMan yessir, this is a great movie about WW2 and there are several more movies like this. you search Hollywood archive for movies about WW2.

[QuatermassMan]

@vincentyeo88 A few other good overlooked ones are The Battle of Britain, Hell is for Heroes, A Bridge Too Far, Paths of Glory, Attack!, Battleground and Decision Before Dawn, just to name a few.

[vincentyeo88]

@QuatermassMan all these are great movies and i'd bought them in DVDs from online store in the USA.

[xwingclass]

@vincentyeo88 why dont you put the whole film on.

[corcaighrebel]

@QuatermassMan - has to rate as one of the greatest conclusions of any film, just listen to that train, genius!

[shitamerica1]

i've just realized. 481 characters remaining. 454 = 13

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When I press stop or go, I'm pressing a triangle.

[chevybike]

An excellent film

[killer4u10]

this is one of my favorite movie

[LJBCRT]

One of the greatest war films ever created. Certainly one of my favorite Burt Lancaster roles of all time. Did his own stunts. Frankenheimer's direction is key to it all.

[TalonMercenary]

my dad first showed me this when i was 5 or 6, never seen it again because i could never find it anywhere on youtube until now, thanks!

[TRUMPER007]

This is a very poignant war film and Burt Lancaster and Paul Schofield are fantastic in their respective roles. Thanks for uploading this true classic.

[jws54]

I always enjoy seeing Burt Lancaster.

He used to do a trapeze act with our school bus driver, Harry Sill, I think in the 20's. It makes him more personable to me.

Always a very good film to see. Thank you for your efforts

[vincentyeo88]

you're most welcome.

[blessOTMA]

a gem of acting and directing

[zthetha]

"Some of the greatest paintings in the world..." Hmm...? Not sure about Renoir... "They will always belong to me or a man like me.." Good! Your exquisite taste is a delusion formed by businessmen, not artists, who manipulate gullible rich collectors for their own ends into believing this that or the other daub is beautiful. So called 'greatness' in art is decided by agents and dealers and has little or no relevence to any intrinsic qualities of painthandling. .

[vincentyeo88]

you'd certainly got much experience about old masters' paintings and how they are hyped by the people in those auction houses.

[BlckKnight85]

It is not necessarily the case that Waldheim was a gullible collector obsessed by price tags. Being an art historian, I can say it is possible to have a personal, emotional attachment to art beyond the price tag. Just because Waldheim is a Nazi, and a soldier, doesn't mean he isn't being genuine when he reveals his excitement in the presence of such beauty. He may have, he may not have. The film leaves this unanswered. For Labiche, the film shows they were simply objects of nationalism.

[2210ethan]

This is a brilliant, brilliant film. Thanks for posting.

[vincentyeo88]

you're most welcome.

[ltwesjanson]

To answer a man's final monlogue with machinegun fire. A statement unto itself.

[Infidelerious]

'cos sometimes words just aren't enough.

[AleksanderRU]

"Train" have shown on the Russian TV for MAY, 9TH in 2002г since then, it in my collection of films about WW2. Masterpiece!!! Берт Lancaster is young and magnificent!

[Remember39to45]

What a classic film this is, magnificent.

Paul Scofield - absolute class

[Roobert33]

Plappolog, thanks for your interest in researching this film! And thanks also to those who uploaded this video ....

[plappolog]

...a richiesta di un amico...un bel film...una buona interpretazione...c'erano ancora le locomotive a vapore..colloquio finale tra Labiche...Burt Lancaster.. e il colonnello della Wermacht..."tu non sei nulla Labiche...solo un lampo di luce"... proprio nulla? no..."un lampo di luce" è una grandissima cosa nella vita di un uomo...

[EvilFingers]

One of the Best WWII Movies.

I gotta get this on DVD.

[sean57]

Those who think they are bigger than others should go visit the cemetary,

. There you will find what the world really is.

Nothing but a handfull of dirt.

[hiyadroogs]

sean57, your message reminded me of something I heard long ago;

'Next time you are feeling big headed,

& your ego is in full bloom,

next time you think that you are the most important one in the room,

take a bucket & fill it with water,

put your arm in up to the wrist,

pull it out, & the hole that is left there,

is a metaphor of how much you'll be missed..

[eisenbahnerffo]

Burt Lancesters best movie ever !

[2SpaceTraveller2]

loooool

labiche is kind of Rambo he doesn't seem to always understand what been said and he does

[vincentyeo88]

thank you for your good analysis.

[ktnj609]

Just a follow up. I read your comment gsherlock and agree...I believe that Lancasters character in the movie isn't really "engaged" to fight about the train until he pleads for Papa Boule's life and you hear the shots ring out above their conversation. I think it may have become "personal" for Libiche at that point because he wants to avenge Papa Boule.

[vincentyeo88]

thank you for your good analysis.

[UbiDuboi]

this is not a movie about the french resistance

this is a movie about ordinary people doing extraordinary things

this is a perfect movie, how much of this is done in single shots, with one camera and one take?

[WreathedinHoochSmoke]

Insightful comment.

[ktnj609]

Actually, I think Labiche answered the Colonel's last question quite fittingly. That one glance over his shoulder (at the slaughtered men used as human shields) and then back at the Colonel, tells the audience all they need to know about "why" he did what he did. If you notice, Libiche is quite "ambivalent" in the beginning of the movie about the train (or it's cargo), but as the story progresses he is willing to risk his life to stop the train from reaching Germany.

[vincentyeo88]

excellent analysis, thank you!

right, the loyal Frenchman did what he had to do.

[gsherlock]

Surely this is because of the great cost in human life invested and spent trying to stop the train rather than any love or appreciation of art, his look just before he kills the Colonel is very telling. Its a fantastic end which poses more questions than it answers.

[ltwesjanson]

Oh, it's an answer, but it's not an *answer*. His best response boils down to "Because you made it personal", but he can't ever really articulate why he fights in the first place. It's not for the art, it's not for France, it's not for liberty...it's fighting for its own sake, because it's his nature to destroy, not to create.

At least the Colonel had a cause, and knew it. He may not have been an artist, but ultimately his ends were towards creativity rather than destruction.

[ktnj609]

I respectfully disagree my friend. The Colonel was not a creator, he was just an errand boy sent by his masters to steal the wealth of art (loaded onto the train). The paintings may have been appreciated by him, but plundering and then displaying the art would have simply made the Third Riech the temporary keepers of others fortunes, not artists or "creators". Libiche fights for what most men believe in...justice and equity. The colonels "cause" could have been "borne" by anyone.

[ktnj609]

(continued) whats more...THIS colonel just happened to appreciate art...his Nazi counterparts that stole European gold and plundered the wealth of banks in neighboring countries did not make them "goldsmiths"..just plunderers. The fact that THIS treasure was in the form of "art " made it a story.

[ltwesjanson]

The decision to take the paintings was ultimately his; the Colonel fought and lied to his own commanding officers in order to take them, for his own sake. He had no interest in the monetary value of the paintings, only their artistic value to himself. Every action he took was directed towards the end of keeping them in his own possession. The only other person in the film who appreciated them was the museum curator from the beginning, but she didn't care enough to act on her convictions.

[ktnj609]

I agree with you (in part). However, lets look at HOW each man "went about" achieving his "objectives". While the Colonel was part of an invading army that was plundering the wealth of an occupied nation...Libiche was just going about his business (as best he could) under the circumstances.

[ktnj609]

(continued) Libiche on the other hand did all the effort to defeat the Colonel himself...yup...thats why they cast Lancaster in this role. Notice throughout the LONG sequences where you see Libiche running about and pushing himself to great limits to out-distance the train in order to derail it ahead of the men on the tracks. The Colonels effort was manipulative, underhanded and at times cowardly...while Libihes effort seemed a more righteous and genuine one from the start. Wouldn't you agree?

[ltwesjanson]

I would agree that Labiche's actions are portrayed as heroic and valiant. And I would agree that the Colonel is portrayed in a negative light. But remember the period: WWII was only 20 years in the past, and still fresh in the memory of audiences. To do otherwise wouldn't have been commercially viable. Yet the subtle message endures. The Colonel fought for something he believed in; Labiche fought for something other people believed in. That's a crucial distinction in my book.

[ltwesjanson]

(continued) Consider the framing of the film as well. The movie begins and ends with the paintings and the Colonel. We see him surrounded by Art, drinking in its beauty. And at the end, all that's left is his cold body on the ground, and piles of identical, sterile boxes strewn about. If Labiche is really the hero, then where's the victory, the celebration? Indeed, the closing shots are a dirge for the Colonel, those who died in the conflict, and the ideal of the art itself.

[ktnj609]

Ahhh I think we do agree on that point. The closing shots in the film of the retreating German army (contrasted with the firmness of the incapacitated locomotive now in Libiche's possession along with it's cargo) is a fitting shot. I believe it demonstrates Libiche's victory and the defeat of a Colonel (*who would withhold a train for his own purposes) that was supposed to help his army at the "front".

[ktnj609]

(continued) I have to mention also (in my humble opinion) that perhaps the best victories and celebrations ( "then where's the victory, the celebration"? ) are the "muted" ones. The silent victories ...an excellent example would be Robert Duvall emerging into the sun at the end of THX 1138...they are not even "celebrated" by the hero of the film yet...but the audience realizes them. Not all victories come with a brass band and a "dirge" is usually an event associated with the demise of someone.

[ktnj609]

(continued from below) Itwesjanson makes a good point (but you may actually be adding ammunition to my argument) in the following line..."The Colonel fought for something he believed in; Labiche fought for something other people believed in. That's a crucial distinction in my book."...now in MY book the guy that fights for only what HE believes in may sometimes be the hero, BUT the guy that fights for what OTHERS believe in is fighting a more "selfless" cause..read that part again.."self less"

[ltwesjanson]

But why does Labiche fight? Pro Patria? From hatred? For what? We're never once given any actual motivation, any exploration of his essential desires. The innkeeper even probes this, and justly criticizes the headlong nature of his struggle. What you call a "sefless cause", others would call "mindless drone". "Just following orders" was rightfully found insufficient at Nuremberg; what would a trial make of Labiche's justifications? For just what did all of those patriots die for?

[ktnj609]

Ahh my friend..thats what makes the contrast between the two men so profound. The innkeeper is so "taken" with Labiche that she "joins his cause" in a manner of speaking after only knowing him briefly. Others are behind Labiche (even when he begins to doubt his own efforts). The Colonel on the other hand has to summon his subordinate Mueller to shoot the boy on the roof of the train station after the fake air raid siren stunt. The Colonel needs coercion and "rank" to execute his cause..

[catherinefan32]

i am supriesed that not once in this film was there a huslet austreity enigne which was used in WW2 very often

[Paulelly15]

The locomotives you mention came to Europe after D-day (June 1944).

Setting of movie is during German occupation of France,no American or British locomotives then.Believe engine in the movie is a German made P-8,very famous steamloco,produced from late twenties,was operational in Germany till mid seventies! After May 1945,a lot of these engines changed ownership (confiscated),lots of them were used in France,Belgium,and other countries.

[ltwesjanson]

"Now, this minute, you couldn't tell me why you did what you did."

Is it wrong that, even at the end, I still can't help but feel sympathy for the Colonel?

[wardlemike]

Not really, considering the filmmaker made him convincingly human (a man of strong, yet monstrously misplaced convictions).

[yaknbo]

No, it isn't. But that comes nowhere near exonerating him. He was a c..t who thought that paintings are more important then people.

[ltwesjanson]

But that's just it-the Resistance members were just as willing to die and to kill for the paintings. Except that they never cared about the art in the first place. In the end, Labiche genuinely couldn't answer that last question.

[swanningaround]

I am interested in how these men managed to escape the Swiss authorities. One of my relatives escaped up through Italy at about the same time as this event took place. He was put into a Swiss prison camp, where he remained for over a year. How come the people in this film got away with it in Switzerland.

[vincentyeo88]

most viewers won't know what had happened to these POWs who'd escaped into Switzerland 'coz the movie ended with the successful escape.

since you're living in Switzerland, you may want to check with your defense authority or the history departments of your universities.

[vincentyeo88]

btw, my first comment also refers to that movie entitled Von Ryan's Express, which ended with the successful escape of many allied POWs into Switzerland.

[swanningaround]

Yes. I was referring to Von Ryan's express too. A mistake, as this is another movie, I guess.

[bienenpabst]

wieso sind eigentlich immer die deutschen die bösen?

[huusko26]

1. Sind sie das gar nicht immer

2. zu der Zeit waren Sie´s nun einmal

[santan25]

A long time I havn't seen this :D when I was a kid I watched on TV one time - so long ago now

[si4106]

A great film

[elli003]

A rarely shown "must see" classic.

Get the dvd.

[QuatermassMan]

Thank god. Some one else who loves this movie. One of the greatest and most underappreciated movies of all time. That ending is fantastic. A movie ahead of its time, almost. Frankenheimer is one of my favorites. Lancaster is perfect and Schofield commands it all.

[Elhombresombra]

>One of the greatest and most underappreciated

>movies of all time

>

Quote! Has it been remastered on DVD???

[QuatermassMan]

It is on DVD. This movie seriously needs a Special Edtion release. Two discs. Maybe three to make up for how overlooked it is. Frankenheimer is brilliant. His movies are very raw and character driven. The Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz, Seven Days in May, Seconds. This is one of my favoirite movies. The Magnificent Score helps!

[Jaegertiger]

I agree with you QmassMan.

There are so many GREAT filming techniques used throughout.

When it came out and I saw it as a kid, it really impressed me beyond any other WWII film.

So many powerful features -- always liked the use of fog and smoke throughout.

...the Armed-Locomotive and De Havilland Mosquitoes w/ D-Day markings -- nothing could be better.

[ktnj609]

Say Jaegertiger..where did you see De Havilland Mosquitoes in this movie...the planes that buzzed the rail-yard (but decided not to drop their bombs) after they saw the roofs of the train cars were painted white?

[AllenbysEyes]

This is an amazing movie, and a great scene. RIP Paul Scofield, one of my favorite actors ever.

[jjj1951]

Another great role by Paul Scofield. R.I.P.

[TulseLuper]

Talk about badass! That one look Lancaster gives is worth a thousand words. And Paul Scofield is just brilliant as always.

[vjb007]

Thank you vincentyeo88. Scofield's closing line "A painting means as much to you...", which captures the entire movie in one sentence, gets my vote as the greatest movie line of all time.

[vincentyeo88]

you're most welcome.

[CD318]

My favorite movie line of all time.

[blithespiritny]

A terrific clip - well-done.

[simonteam]

thanks i was looking for this ending only a few days ago --its amazing you have it thank for post--simon