Von Ryan's Express (20th Century Fox) (1965)

on the best-seller t the toe of the Italian “boot” to the tip of the i | 20th Century-Fox presents Swiss Alps! VON. RYANS EXPRESS A MARK ROBSON PRODUCTION COLOR By DE LUXE Why did 600 Allied prisoners hate the man they called Von Ryan more than they hated Hitler? RAFFAELLA GARRA éii'sixier SERGIO FANTONI-JOHN LEYTON: EDWARD MULHARE WOLFGANG PREISSProduced by SAUL DAVID Directed by MARK ROBSON: Screenplay by WENDELL MAYES & JOSEPH LANDON Based on the Best Selling Novel by DAVID WESTHEIMER + A P-R Productions Picture ee a MAT—401 155 lines x 4 columns (620 lines) 4 columns x 11 inches Page 2 ® Synopsis (Not For Publication ) In 1943, Colonel Joseph Ryan (FRANK SINATRA) of the Army Air Corps is shot down in Italy and sent to a Prisoner-of-War Camp. He discovers that most of the prisoners are British infantry captured at Tobruk, and their senior officer is Major Eric Fincham (TREVOR HOWARD). Fincham and his men are boiling over with bitterness and frustration at their long imprisonment, but Ryan resigns himself to being a prisoner. He knows that the Allies will liberate him soon, and he decides to cooperate with the camp’s administrative officer, Captain Oriani (SERGIO FANTONI). Ryan’s cooperation with his captors earns him the name of “Von Ryan” from the other prisoners, and unwittingly he begins to make trouble for them. When Italy surrenders, Oriani is ordered by the Germans to load the prisoners on a freight train bound for Austria. When Ryan learns of this plan, he decides the time has come to take action. As the train speeds northward with its cargo of prisoners, Ryan formulates a plan to capture the train and head for the Swiss border. With the aid of Fincham and his men, the guards are over-powered, and the train’s commander, Major Von Klement (WOLFGANG PREISS) is captured along with his Italian mistress Gabriella (RAFFAELLA CARRA). Now “Von Ryan’s Express”’ must bluff and fight its way through four hundred miles of Nazi-controlled Italy. Ryan and Fincham masquerade as German officers, and they soon discover that 10 minutes behind them on the tracks is a German troop train. After numerous thrilling adventures and incidents, “Von Ryan’s Express’’ finally reaches the Swiss Border—only to find a German ambush waiting for them. With German fighter planes strafing them from the air, and German soldiers attacking on the ground, Ryan, Fincham and the POW’s stage their last desperate battle for freedom. Cast Colonel Joseph Ryan ................. Frank Sinatra Major Eric Fincham ................. Trevor Howard Me oe Oe wi cha ees pr es 8 Raffaella Carra ORMOUME MOBIC Se Ceo te Soe Se ee cs a Brad Dexter Campi rieme kG). woe ae ale 2s Sergio Fantoni Liembemaml SIGN. ook 6a Slow OR eS ok x John Leyten Chaplain Costanne ... 6 666 6 ow Se Edward Mulhare Major Von Klement ................ Wolfgang Preiss PRs ete ate 3. oS Rk ech ES ee James Brolin ColonelGor® a6. 6 ok oe. John Van Dreelen Major Vattaelin yoo iii be oak ms oe Adolfo Celi Jtalian Train Engineer’... . 20. 00 ice Vito Scotti Corporst Giamhimi 2)... 6 6. Feary Richard Bakalyan CMptAiee See og ae BS ET A Michael Geodliffe sergeant Dumbar <6. 0) 6s os wy les Michael St. Clair NMED Me aaa oli i et lee BIS. 4 Ivan Triesault e Credits PUORREOe D9 5 ti a tent ee SES eS es Saul David Cet ea eis oe er RG a eo Mark Robson Screenplay by ...... Wendell Mayes and Joseph Landon Based on the novel by ............. David Westheimer NOME oe i CON ees Re Jerry Goldsmith Director of Photography. .... . William H. Daniels, A.S.C. Art Direction ..... Jack Martin Smith and Hilyard Brown Assistant Art Directors ........ Ed Graves and Lou Korn Set Decorations. . . Walter M. Scott and Raphael G. Bretton Special Photographic Effects ...... L. B. Abbott, A.S.C. and Emil Kosa, Jr. CRrcteeetratiees oo 5S as aR Arthur Morton Filer Panor:. 40. Shae 5 te bs Dorothy Spencer Unit Production Manager ............ Harry A. Caplan Aspistane Director 02 ons a 5h ee ee. Eli Dunn PER ty whe re nat iy es a Oe Ben Nye Ge ye ies cso Sa eh wee Margaret Donovan lt eee aeaeal Name Carlton W. Faulkner and Elmer Raguse second Unit Director . 2.00. eS, William Kaplan Second Unit Photography ...... Harold Lipstein, A.S.C.