The Train: Members Only
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: John Frankenheimer Run Time: 133 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 1964
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Simon, Paul Scofield, Suzanne Flon
This screening is open to Film Club Members only. To learn more about the Frida Film Club or become a member, click here!
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Frida Film Club Members are invited to a special 60th anniversary screening of John Frankenheimer’s The Train, starring Burt Lancaster!
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France’s greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.
Nominated for Best Story and Screenplay at the 38th Academy Awards, The Train is an action-packed war adventure.