Yes, THAT one, with Burt Lancaster!
It’s on Turner Classic Movies tonight at 8:00, probably the best railroad movie ever made, and I’ll be watching it!
Thought everyone would like to know.
About the movie that is. I doubt anyone wonders what I do in the evenings.
Good good. Even way up here on the Shield in Northern Saskatchewan i get TCM. It’s been a long while since I’ve seen it. I will be there, thanks for the heads up.
7:00 pm CDT. Thanks for the heads up. Excellent film. I think I heard once that the athletic Lancaster did most of his own stunts.
Ahh; a favorite. “You are a nothing Labisch!”
I have the DVD but; will still watch it when it’s “on TV”.
Labiche. He’s supposed to be French, not Teutonic.
You’re welcome Miningman!
Oh, and Burt did all his own stunts. That good circus training paid off!
One bit of trivia. In between filming Burt injured his ankle playing golf, of all things! The limping he does toward the end is no affectation. They wrote in a scene where he gets clipped by a German bullet as a cover for the limp.
Hey, golf can be dangerous! A co-worker of mine injured his hand when a brand-new super-duper-special club he’d just bought came apart in his hands, cutting him!
One of the reasons I don’t play golf. Matter of fact every time I see a golf course all I can think of is “There’s a beautiful rifle range gone to waste!”
A nice walk in the country spoiled by a little white ball…
Bien reçu; Je me suis trompé!
Golf can be fun, as long as is played with a Frisbee.
Who is doing the Dispatching? The engineer?
The Nar-zees, at the point of a machine gun, that’s who.
French Resistance duping the Nazi’s (great for a movie plot - I have a hard time believing it could be pulled off in reality)
The Belgians pulled off something very similar to the plot in “The Train,” but in the Belgians case it was a train full of Allied airman who were POW’s being shipped to Germany.
I saw it on a History Channel documentary a few years back, I don’t remember all the details but basically Belgian railroad workers delayed the train by various means long enough for advancing Allied forces to catch up with it.
The French railroad workers DID stop a German train loaded with stolen art, but it wasn’t as dramatic as it was in the film. They managed to tie it up and delay it with bureaucratic gymnastics, for lack of a better term. It never got out of Paris.
I dunno. I knew a WWII POW. My parents told me that he said that “Stalag 13,” with some of the POW antics, wasn’t far off the mark. The staff at the POW camps wasn’t exactly the elite. I can imagine that might have been the case with some of the folks charged with transportation/logistics away from the fronts.
The bravado of some German officers might play into it as well - not believing that they could be duped…
I suspect the real stories are way more out there. There is still a whole train loaded with gold missing in Poland. They kinda think they know sorta where it is. Lots of entire trains of looted gold and art, valuable personal effects and so on were intercepted, diverted, tricked, delayed and so on.
My maternal Grandmother, ( only one of the 4 that survived the war) was in the underground in Holland, France and Belgium. I’ve related some of her accounts to me and others in detail in personal emails, including David Klepper. She personally ‘dispatched’ 2 Nazi’s herself. Government sent 2 military officers to her funeral, late 80’s.
Truth is way stranger than fiction.
cow pasture pool
Huh? What’s that mean? What I think it does?
Something full of bovine scat?
Just remember this about occupied countries that had a strong resistance force in WW2. They literally made the German Army lives hell with all the crap they pulled off.
Had to laugh out loud when I read your comment! My excuse is, I spent WWAAAYYY too much time chasing cows around a pasture while growing up to want to spend an afternoon of leisure chasing a ball around a pasture. One positive for golf, you don’t have to dodge as many meadow muffins.
Honestly, I did try golf a couple of times and just couldn’t get into it, not my bag.
Although I do enjoy miniature golf from time to time.