The Making of "The Train" (1964) 16mm HD Burt Lancaster

[@James-nl6fu]

The Train was the first war film that made me really think about what people would risk their lives for. Wonderful acting by Moreau and Lancaster

[@markmonse5285]

One of my all-time favorite movies! I was a lad of 10 when my Dad took me to see it, and it even had some airplanes in it. The Spitfire strafing scene was great! How I long for the pre-CGI days when they blew real stuff up..

[@spikespa5208]

Nothing tops a scene in which a train is really crashed/blown up. a la "Bridge on the River Kwai".

[@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp]

Without question, "The Train" remains one of my all time Top 10 favourite films. Burt was so accurate in his portrayal of a real Railroad man... The nuances are all there.

[@PlymouthVT]

Really one of the best movies ever made. Burt had 5 Academy Award nominations and won Best Actor in 1960 for it. Been out on DVD for years. No CGI special effects just incredible miniatures and other effects and alot of awesome acting.' Burt Lancaster was really one one of the best actors in America. But you have to be old to remember. So many movies when we were growing up.

[@GuineaPigEveryday]

i mean, im gen z and ive watched it, fantastic film, though tbh in terms of numbers nowadays there's like thousands of films that get released becuz its gotten way cheaper to make them and you don't need big studios anymore.

[@alangrund5031]

He got the Oscar for Elmer Gantry in 1960. The Train came out in 1964.

[@frankfarago2825]

"Train" is a 1964 flick, and "Train" is also full of optical, miniature and actualviseul effects. But hey, you've got the rest right.

[@PlymouthVT]

@@frankfarago2825 I know I especially love the actualviseul effects.

[@b3j8]

Burt also did his own stunts in this movie incl standing in for the shot where the boy falls off the roof after being shot. Great movie all around.

[@rerite2]

Thank you for posting! Big Frankenheimer fan here and Burt Lancaster fan, too. One of their best films. Fun to see the behind-the-scenes action.

[@christopherpotter5963]

I have this dvd and this movie never gets old

[@briangardner5905]

The way in which he delivers his lines to the way he winds the wires together by the railroad track - Lancaster is terrific!

[@redd605]

I bet you watched it today, brilliant movie doing it in black and white and the battle of wills , the sad bit is the incident people from the village on the outside of the train being shot.

[@iankemp1131]

Very interesting to see this background. The marshalling yard and buildings were apparently scheduled for demolition anyway. So the filmmakers saved the SNCF the trouble! A win-win situation!

[@rafaelmacias9979]

2:25 reminds me of the train in the one crash. Where crashed through the second story of the station in 1895 I think

[@sunydays8485]

What a wonderful movie. Realistic everything

[@donfrandsen7778]

Classic great movie , best actors !!! Great script and idea during WW II Fighting the Nazis this way Burt Lancaster stole the show! Academy award’s all way round best picture, actor , story , best supporting actor !!! Fantastic film Black n white classic!!!!!!!!!

[@martinsoublette95]

R.I.P. Jean Moreau (1928 - 2017)

[@MysteryManBob]

between 2:30 and 2:31 you can go frame by frame and see the driver jump out of the cab really late, I'm surprised he didn't bail sooner

[@fernandogagliardo6618]

THIS FILM IS TROULY A MASTERPIECE CONSIDERING THE SPECIAL EFFECTS MADE IN 1964 !

[@Mason58654]

@2:26 It’s a good thing one camera 🎥 survived that staged wreck. I was amazed just how awesome it looked how the freight car wheel barely skidded against it!

[@krzysztofdemitraszek8344]

Fantastic film !!!

[@ghostofpambo6266]

A terrific, intelligent action film.

[@elli003]

One of my Top Five !

[@vector1979]

The train's scene really really good.

[@robertboykin1828]

I was in Bitburg, Germany, when I saw that, mid 60's.

[@TheVinylGuru]

This looks really good...

[@saptarshimandal3786]

My favorite movie

[@harrisonofcolorado8886]

I think I saw something like this from some train related show a while back.

[@Louis275]

Brilliant film!! Masterfully done!!

[@brontologos]

A truly great movie with Paul Schofield as the perfect Nazi baddie.

[@mattgibbs73]

I can almost hear him say "he won't leave the Train, I'm beginning to know him" 😉

[@ersikillian]

Wonderful movie, but I hate seeing beautiful old steam locomotives and historical vehicles destroyed.

[@venkatesansadasivan8982]

I saw this movie more than 16 times !

[@sirrliv]

Filmmaking legend goes that actually the film got a huge boon from the French National Railways, the SNCF, who were looking to modernize this railway line. This meant the demolition of much of the existing infrastructure and the scrapping of all of the aging steam locomotives, some of which dated to before the First World War. But the scale of the project was so great that postwar-starved SNCF lacked the funds to complete the work alone. Thus when Frankenheimer approached them for locations to film, the directors of the railway were delighted and offered the use of the obsolete railway and rolling stock free of charge, including full permission to film the air raid scene on the railyard, which they didn't have the money to demolish themselves. In short, the French railway management said, "Of course, by all means, knock yourselves out! Blow up anything you want! Crash all the trains you like. Matter of fact, you'd be doing us a big favor if you did."

[@AllanLoveJr]

Even though it's not an American movie. It's still one of the best. And I mean best videos out there I watch it a lot and love this video. The Train.

[@garryferrington811]

It is an American movie. It's just made in France.

[@PunksGitRekt]

1:45 Back to the future 3 No. 131 chugging reference clip

[@angelsone-five7912]

A great film and one of my favourites.

[@ChowderTDMOFCAL]

What whistle did the SNCF 230 B’s use?

[@jayo1212]

@5:34 I like to point out those 141R's on the right... Also, is that a 141R's tender @1:10?

[@lawrencelewis2592]

I think you are right. I finally got an N scale 141R after wanting one that I could afford for over 40 years.

[@Jean-PierreVlerick]

An anachronism indeed. The 141R were builded after the liberation of France

[@b3j8]

The only laugh I got from this mostly realistic movie was when Burt Lancaster tells Michel Simon the switch is closed and he cant get through. Burt then runs to a switch stand prob 50 feet or more from the actual switch and opens that! But anyway, an awesome movie I've watched and enjoyed many times!

[@railtrolley]

Would not have really mattered if Burt didn't throw the switch. The film version was a simple yard switch: no locking or interlocking mechanism. The direction the train was travelling: towards the hinged end of the switch rails. The leading wheels on the loco would have pushed the rails across to the correct throw position. There are switches on unmanned crossing or passing loops today, that use a spring or counterweight to throw the rails back to the other position, after a train passes over them.

[@b3j8]

@railtrolley Yeah those spring switches a interesting. The NS(NKP) yard near where I grew up had one.

[@TheVinylGuru]

I love burt L.

[@larrynevin2129]

Burt Lancaster's athleticism was a big plus for me.

[@PhillipLalhriatrenga-wt1hg]

How can the steam train stop at the first bc there is no colour except black and grat

[@PhillipLalhriatrenga-wt1hg]

Gray

[@garryferrington811]

Saw this with my dad. Helluva movie to see in the theater. But it would have to be digitally projected now and wouldn't be as good.

[@MdickieFilms]

2:27 i don't know why that clip wasn't seen on the movie

[@jlpapple]

That scene is in the film.

[@MdickieFilms]

@@jlpapple i only watch thr movie in movieclips lol

[@nihalranjith4313]

@@MdickieFilms You must watch the full movie❤️

[@82ghall]

very good movie

[@rolfagten857]

Great warmovie of yesterday

[@chrisst8922]

1:40 Burt takes his girl for a ride. Looks like she loved every second.

[@plasticbucket]

There is some doubt about his sexuality

[@richie6921]

It is a damn good film. It's like die hard or speed. It's one of the very best action films

[@Alzaar_The_Gunzel]

To think all of the locomotives used in the film no longer exist..

[@resitupfer7950]

Almost $50,000 worth of camera equipment in the ass. The producer had a fit of rage at that moment and then a heart attack.

[@isabelaoliveira9270]

Incrível 👏🏾

[@nigelkthomas9501]

Surprising they didn’t make this in colour in 1964. Good film though, having said that.

[@iankemp1131]

It was a deliberate choice by Frankenheimer to enhance the period feel.

[@TTVEaGMXde]

@@iankemp1131 Today, however, this can mean that the film does not get an appropriate broadcast slot.

[@lawrencelewis2592]

it's better in B & W

[@nigelkthomas9501]

@@lawrencelewis2592 In your opinion maybe, but not mine!

[@lawrencelewis2592]

@@nigelkthomas9501I am not you, you are not me.

[@kepoexpresssurabaya162]

I like this

[@emiliennekremer1495]

Mon père qui était cheminot à vaires sur marne à côté d eurodisney avait assisté au tournage il avait un autographe de Lancaster et de Simon acteur suisse à l époque c était le 2eme triage de France maintenant il n y a plus grand chose et le depot n existe plus c'est tiré d un fait réel le sauvetage d oeuvres d art mais cela ne s est pas passé comme dans le film mais par contre il y a eu le bombardement d un train de munitions où 800 soldats allemands ont péri

[@nssteampunk4865]

Federal Signal Model 5 civil defense siren.

[@greentriumph1643]

This is what happens when you give a bunch of 40 year old guys two and a half tons of dynamite and an abandoned narrow gage train system that needs to be destroyed, and tell them to make a WWII movie.

[@garryferrington811]

Pretty much right.

[@SomeLocoStudios]

2:28 Train goes fly

[@احمداللامي-ف3د]

هاذه الافلام لن تتكرر بعد

[@alexbaysha2586]

мечты мечты, в чем ваша сладость, Братики

[@Eric-bf7iy]

Ferloren!

[@belechhebkamal7736]

tu es au train je suis au pc c'est la nouvelle du jour

[@venkatesansadasivan8982]

Suuuuuper!

[@belechhebkamal7736]

usa je veux une jacket

[@tariqahmed76]

👍

[@allanrpa32652]

Some of scenes are very inaccurate. In beginning of movie,when la beecher and other resistance meet on boat,they would have never,never allowed an outsider to me them.the man that brought her might've also bee N killed.resistance was very secretive.

[@lindaratihindah9026]

1960

[@haroldstarosa8141]

Im crash the train 🚂 crash to me 🚂

[@elidaperdomo2264]

🚂🔟2️⃣🚃🚃🚃🚃

[@venkatesansadasivan8982]

I am now 80!

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Lacks action. 😂