The Train (United Artists) (1964)

Stull TT 23 Mat 2B In “The Train,” Paul Scofield stars with Burt Laneaster and Jeanne Moreau. Opening ...... is AL EIR eerste! ste, 6 . Theatre, the adventure drama was directed by John Frankenheimer and depicts a successful attempt of French Resistance fighters to prevent the Nazis from removing a trainload of priceless treasure from France to Germany in the last days of the occupation. Frankenheimer's Only ‘Style Is A Good Motion Picture John Frankenheimer says he scorns “style.” The 33 year old director of “The Train,” opening Rene at the Theatre, through United Artists release, has six other motion pictures under his belt—including four with Burt Lancaster who also stars in “The Train.” “Style,” says Frankenheimer, who developed his talent in television, “can trap a director with his own trademark. Every picture makes its own demands. Each new project must be approached as a separate challenge, not as another stone in the mosaic of one’s career in the arts.” “Many directors like to set the tone for the rest of the picture with the first shot. Yet in every single one of my films that first shot has either had to be done over or completely eliminated. As an example, for ‘Bird Man of Alcatraz,’ I decided to film a stylized opening shot— and almost fell into that trap. It was a good scene. [ still like it. In fact, I still have it. It was a love scene between Burt and the girl that gets him into his first trouble. But when it came to matching it up with the rest of the movie’s mood, it just didn’t fit and I had sense enough to take it out. I’d like to open each of my pictures with a highly stylized scene, but it can’t always be done!” Some say that Frankenheimer’s Stull TT 39 Burt Lancaster stars as a French Mat IB resistance fighter in “The Train,” opening ..... Rete ab thei eeeaee Theatre, through United Artists release. The film co-stars Paul Seofield and Jeanne Morean and was directed by John Frankenheimer. “style” is his use of the wide-angle lens and his panorama method of shooting long shots. He has perched cameras atop swinging cranes, moving tanks and speeding locomotives. He shoved them beneath the wheels of boxcars and loaded them in helicopters. He once suspended the camera hand-carried through the overhead panning shot, and had a camera hand carried through the narrow halls of a hotel. However, he does not consider his striking camera work a “style.” “T don’t think you can see a picture and say, “That’s by Frankenheimer’-—and I wouldn’t want you to be able to do that. What I do want, frankly, is for you to be able to say ‘That’s a good picture; I wonder if Frankenheimer made it ! 999 New Camera To obtain the desired footage on “The Train,” opénihg)s.i.a¢ at [i some pears ee rameeene Theatre, through United Artists release, director John Frankenheimer used the new Mark II Mitchell 35mm. camera as one of his principal production tools. The new camera successfully incorporates a zoom lens which gives a high quality picture from three feet up to 200 yards, retaining the wide-angle effect that has become Frankenheimer’s trademark. Burt Lancaster stars in the film. Brief Biogs Top Performer Paul Scofield Nazi Colonel in ‘The Train’ Although Paul Scofield is one of the world’s most highly acclaimed performers, he has been seen by a comparatively small audience. A stage actor, he has never received the immense exposure that comes to a star in films. Now, however, Scofield co-stars with Burt Lancaster and Jeanne Moreau in “The cDrainse OMeHING tthe tate ae at the Soe ais Theatre, through United Artists release and audiences the world over will become familiar with his consumate artistry. Born David Paul Scofield in Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, he essayed his first role at 13 while still in school. Of course, the play was by Shakespeare (“Romeo & Juliet’) and the then 13 year old boy played Juliet. Subsequently he graduated to various repertory companies and more suitable roles, culminating with his first big hit in London’s West End as Alexander in Terrence Rattigan’s, “Alexander the Great.” Later he played for another two years in Anouilh’s “Ring Around the Moon” and in 1960, after a string of successes in London, he travelled to Canada for a season on Broadway in the award-winning “A Man For All Seasons.” Both he and the play cleaned up the Antoinette Perry Award, awards from the American Theatre Wing, the Critics Award ... and many others. Only twice has Scofield accepted parts in motion pictures. Once with Olivia de Havilland in “That Lady” and before that in an English film, “Carve Her Name with Pride.” It was not lack of interest, he says, but lack of time which kept him from accepting more movie offers. For the role of the Nazi colonel in “The Train,” however, Scofield decided to make the time. “The theatre is my first love,” he says. “But when a part is so fascinating and a story so compel Stull TT 62 Mat 1A In “The Train,” opening... .. AE AMES sees eles Theatre, through United Artists release, Suzanne Flon portrays the curator of a museum in Occupied France. The adventure story of French resistance to Nazi occupation stars Burt Laneaster, Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau. MICHEL SIMON began his movie career in silent films and his remarkably mobile face has been seen in over 60 pictures. When “talkies” came in, his unique voice was discovered and made him an actor constantly in demand. On stage, Simon has played Shakespeare, Shaw, Pirandello and everything between. On screen, some of his best known films are “Fric-Frac,” “The Merchant of Venice,” “The Strange Desire of Dr. Bard” and “The Devil and the Ten Commandments.” SUZANNE FLON icap opular stage actress whose success has kept her from accepting many movie roles. Her first critical raves were for her performance in “Antigone,” and other Parisian hits were “The Little Hut,” in which she starred for three years, “The Glowing Hour,” *“Philemon’s Complex”? and_ recently “T,’Acheteuse.”’ Between these long runs she found time to appear in such films as “Moulin Rouge,” “Justice Is Done”? and “The Longest Day.” WOLFGANG PREISS, a leading stage and screen star in his native Germany, began his film career dubbing foreign movies. By coincidence he once dubbed the voice of Burt Lancaster, with whom he now appears in “The Train.” He has made 35 films to date, including “Counterfeit Traitor,” “The Cardinal” and “Mistress of the World.” On the stage, Preiss has recently done German productions of “Kiss Me Kate” and “Two For the See Saw.” ling ... how can I refuse?” Upon completing “The Train,” Scofield returned to preparations for touring “King Lear,” the play which he considers his highesi artistic peak on stage. He will go around the world with it, and estimates that “The Train” will be seen by more people in one month than will see his stage play in one year. BrickenWorked Two Years On ‘Train’ For two years before cameras rolled on “The Train,” starring Burt Lancaster, a quiet, persevering young man worked doggedly on pre-production details. The result of Jules Bricken’s hard work is the exciting drama opening ........ at te secs: Theatre, through United Artists release. Producer Bricken, devoted those two years to political maneuvering, script supervision, travel, letters, legal work and never ending phone calls and cables. These were only part of his role, leading to the roles portrayed by Lancaster, Jeanne Moreau and Paul Scofield on the screen. A story of the French underground’s effort to block Nazi looting of a treasure, “The Train” was directed on location in France by John Frankenheimer. Bricken, who has also been a director, was born in New York City and attended both Harvard College and Yale’s School of Drama. His first professional job was as production manager and co-director for the Surrey Theatre. Later he worked on Broadway and in summer theatre groups before becoming intrigued by the art of capturing a story on film. He has been active in the motion picture business since the age of 23, when he directed his first film. For five years, Bricken was producer-director in the motion picture branch of the Army Signal Corps, When the war ended, he turned to TV and with the late Ralph Cohn, formed the Screen Gems Company, producing “miles and miles” of television film. Among his credits are “Cavalcade of America,” “The Ford Theatre,” “The 20th Century Fox Hour” and many others. ‘The Train’ Stars Burt Lancaster In Drama of French Underground (General Advance) “The Train,” starring Burt Lancaster in an epic drama of the French Resistance during World War II, will open........ at the 4 vss0i.5.2 Theatre. Starring with Lancaster in the United Artists release are Britain’s Paul Scofield, who is making his screen bow, and France’s Jeanne Moreau. The film was directed by John Frankenheimer and produced by Jules Bricken. Franklin Coen and Frank Davis wrote the screen story and screen play. Featured in the cast are Michel Simon, Suzanne Flon, Wolfgang Preiss and Richard Munch. In the movie, Academy Awardwinner Lancaster portrays an official of the French National Railroads, who also is a leader of the Underground. He comes in conflict with Scofield, a German Army Colonel, whose mission it is to send a trainload of France’s looted treasures out of Paris and into Germany, before the city is recaptured by the Allied forces. Miss Moreau, one of France’s greatest actresses, is the proprietor of a railway hotel, who becomes involved in the desperate struggle and in a romance with Lancaster. Filmed entirely in France, “The Train” re-creates many of the actual incidents that pitted French Rail For Real For “The Train,”’ opening Theatre, through United Artists release. producer Jules Bricken purchased several obsolete trains from French railroads —and then destroyed them. In the interests of peak realism, director John Frankenheimer and star Burt Laneaster had called for the real thing, so Bricken got them the following: four locomotives, 40 railroad cars, seven railroad buildings, more than a mile of track, four trucks, a small arsenal of World War II vintage field guns, tanks, mortars, half-tracks and field kitchens. With veteran Hollywood special effects expert Lee Zavitz setting up these “props,” they were all demolished in various ways, including seven ear-splitting train wrecks. way patriots against the Nazis during the war. The picture also shows one of the most spectacular sequences ever filmed, the bombardment of a railroad yard filled with a munitions train ready to go to the front. The explosion was created by Lee Zavitz, who supervised the burning of Atlanta in “Gone With the Wind.” The sequence has been called, “The Million Dollar Minute,” because that is what it would have cost had it been filmed in Hollywood. Over 4,000 pounds of TNT, 2000 gallons of gasoline, sacks upon sacks of cement and enough electrical wire to light up a fair-sized city were required to set off the explosion. “The Train” is based on a true incident recorded in Rose Valland’s book, “Le Front de L’Art,’ which relates her experience as curator of the Jeu de Paume museum during the Nazi occupation of Paris. Stull TT 31 Mat 1C In “The Train,” opening ..... Btsthe. 4.8820 Theatre, through United Artists release, Wolfgang Preiss tries to halt the departure of a suspicious shipment in a key sequence of the film. Burt Laneaster, Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau star. Uae tia Ween plitiiies a (This art restricted to publicity only. Use in paid advertising is expressly forbidden.) Mat 3A Noted caricaturist Al Hirschfeld’s impression of a break in filming of “The TRAIN,” on location at St. Ouen, France, The adventure saga opens....... ve at the Resiee eee Theatre, through United Artists release. That’s Burt Lancaster lighting up between director John Frankenheimer and co-star Paul Scofield. The “engineer”? with the wonderfully mobile face is famous French character actor Michel Simon. The unhappy actors in the background are Frenchmen required to portray Nazi officers in this story of French resistance during the final months of World War II. PAGE 9