Trying to remember an old Movie name.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-11-03 04:28am

This film is likely very obscure, but this seems as good a place as any to ask. It's a black and white movie about a locomotive crew in Germany during WW2, PBS used to show it periodically. The one scene which sticks in my mind is of a big armored locomotive being rolled out of a shed to hook up to a train load of tanks, which then gets blasted to hell by a Allied bomber strike on the yard.

Anyone have any idea what this might be?

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-03 04:30am

Sea Skimmer wrote:This film is likely very obscure, but this seems as good a place as any to ask. It's a black and white movie about a locomotive crew in Germany during WW2, PBS used to show it periodically. The one scene which sticks in my mind is of a big armored locomotive being rolled out of a shed to hook up to a train load of tanks, which then gets blasted to hell by a Allied bomber strike on the yard.

Anyone have any idea what this might be?

Sorry, no, as much as I love old war movies, I can't strike up a name...

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-11-03 05:48am

Damn me neither. I really need to get this keyboard fixed.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-03 05:50am

THe Yosemite Bear wrote:Damn me neither. I really need to get this keyboard fixed.

Or get a new keyboard.

Post by **weemadando** » 2002-11-03 06:07am

Any of these sound right? [From: http://www.worldrailfans.org/SiteGeneral/Movies.shtml]

La Bataille Du Rail
Cast: Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand, Tony Laurent, Lucien Desagneaux, Robert Leray (all non-professional)
Director: René Clément
Studio, year: SNCF, 1945
Story outline: Dramatised account showing the involvement of French railway workers in the resistance movement mainly during 1944. Much of the story is concerned with sabotaging a German army armoured train which finally derails and falls down an embankment.
Railway content: Filmed in 1945 with full co-operation of the SNCF. Consequently all the railway scenes are 100 % realistic, both rolling stock and infrastructure were unchanged from how they were in 1944. There are a lot of steam trains in action, and the armoured train used was a real armoured train which really went down the embankment, no trick photography and nothing filmed in a studio. It is basically a documentary with a story line.
Format: French, black and white, pseudo-documentary
Available on video: VHS SECAM in France (SECAM will play in black and white on VHS PAL video players)
Ratings: Movie: Percentage of railway: Quality of railway:
Reviewed, recommended by: John Oxlade (EMail: john.oxlade@worldrailfans.org) with additional material by Pierre Birge (EMail: pierre.birge@geseaco.com)

Heldentum nach Ladenschluß
Cast: Josef Sieber, Horst Uhse, Herbert Weissbach, Johannes Buzalski
Director: Wolfgang Schleif et al
Studio, year: Omega Film, 1955
Story outline: This West German post-WWII production consists of four tragicomic episodic segments situated in the chaotic days at the end of the war when fighting just had seized and when the only desire of the scattered german soldiers was to get home to their families without getting caught. The fourth episode is about a troop of soldiers trying to get home by breaking through the russian lines in Carinthia (Austria) by means of a steam train which they had found abandoned by its crew. As nobody has any knowledge about locomotives, the main emphasis is on their clumsy and amateurish attempts to get the machine moving by virtually trying all possible levers, handles and valves. After succeeding, the rest is a hazardous train rush through the Carinthian alps.
Railway content: The real star of this fourth segment is the steam locomotive 54 1607, a bavarian G3/4H, shown in great detail shoots. Nearly the complete episode is situated in its cabin showing the soldiers struggling with the various levers and valves. These scenes are of high authenticity and technically mainly correct. The film can therefore be regarded as a unique and pretious curiosity showing a rare locomotive (of a type disappeared today) in operation.
Format: German, black and white, comedy
Available on video: Probably not, but shown from time to time on German television
Ratings: Movie: Percentage of railway: (only in the fourth segment) Quality of railway:
Reviewed, recommended by: Moritz Gretzschel

The Train
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
Director: John Frankenheimer
Studio, year: United Artists, 1964
Story outline: Paris 1944. As the Germans retreat from the city, they try to take many of France's art treasures with them by train. The Resistance set out to stop the train but without damaging the priceless treasures on board. Burt Lancaster is an SNCF area inspector and has the job of getting the paintings to Germany (officially) and not letting the paintings get to Germany (unofficially - he has "dealings" with the resistance).
Railway content: Possibly one of the finest railway movies ever made. Great pains were taken to ensure that the railway scenes were accurate, and the train crash (when the resistance try to slow down the following art train) is real.
Format: English, black and white.
Available on video: VHS PAL in England in 1997
VHS NTSC (US) in 1998
Ratings: Movie: Percentage of railway: Quality of railway:
Reviewed, recommended by: John

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