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1 May 1948 (USA)
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Trapped on a Train of Terror!
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A multinational group of train passengers become involved in a post-World War II Nazi assassination plot. full summary | add synopsis
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1 nomination
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Great little sleeper
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(Complete credited cast)| Merle Oberon | ... | Lucienne | |
| Robert Ryan | ... | Robert Lindley | |
| Charles Korvin | ... | Perrot | |
| Paul Lukas | ... | Dr. Bernhardt | |
| Robert Coote | ... | Sterling | |
| Reinhold Schünzel | ... | Walther (as Reinhold Schunzel) | |
| Roman Toporow | ... | Lt. Maxim Kiroshilov | |
| Peter von Zerneck | ... | Hans Schmidt | |
| Otto Waldis | ... | Kessler | |
| Fritz Kortner | ... | Franzen | |
| Michael Harvey | ... | Sgt. Barnes | |
| Tom Keene | ... | Major (as Richard Powers) |
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87 min
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Reinhold Schünzel, who plays Professor Walhter in the film, was the director of the original 1933 German stage comedy Viktor und Viktoria (1933), which Blake Edwards later adapted as Victor/Victoria (1995) (TV), a vehicle for his wife Julie 'Andrews (I)'. Reinhold also appeared in the original Georg Wilhelm Pabst film of L'opéra de quat'sous (1931) with 'Lotte Lenya'.
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Narrator: [voiceover] On a warm June day in the Rue Saint Martin in Paris there was a disturbance. Members of the French press were protesting their being barred from a secret conference. Inside, representatives of the United Nations were hearing a report from the head of a special fact-finding commission - a man named Dr...
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Narrator: [voiceover] On a warm June day in the Rue Saint Martin in Paris there was a disturbance. Members of the French press were protesting their being barred from a secret conference. Inside, representatives of the United Nations were hearing a report from the head of a special fact-finding commission - a man named Dr...
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'Berlin Express' may not have much of a reputation, but it's one of Jacques Tourneur's best thrillers. Virtually none of it takes place on the Berlin Express, with the majority of the film shot on location in the awe-inspiring ruins of an almost totally destroyed post-war Frankfurt where Robert Ryan teams up with an Allies-in-microcosm group of companions including unflatteringly shot Frenchwoman Merle Oberon (sporting the film's worst accent by far) and Brit Robert Coote (who thankfully doesn't even attempt a Liverpool accent) to find Paul Lukas' kidnapped politician and save him from die-hard Nazi fanatics. Great moments abound, from the Paris opening where a carrier pigeon is shot, then nearly given a formal burial in the shadow of Montmatre's Sacre Couer by children before reaching maman's kitchen table to reveal a coded message, to Robert Ryan literally finding himself trapped in a barrel in bombed out brewery.
Great production line entertainment that demonstrates just how good studio product could be when you got the formula right, this is a trip well worth taking. The French DVD from Editions Montparnasse boasts a very good good transfer and removable French subtitles.