Re: "The Train"---the ending
Author: Tony Johnson
Date: 12-24-2011 - 20:32
Carol L. Voss Wrote:
>
> Yes, but maybe you people can help me out here. I
> had it in my head that the ending involved a
> rather spectacular train wreck which obviously
> this one didn't. But was there another WW II movie
> set in Germany, in black and white, which DID
> involve a big wreck at the end? or am I having a
> senior moment??
> C.
It must be a senior moment. I can't think of a movie ending like you described. Even though the deraiment at the end of "The Train" wasn't a wreck, the camera angles showing the steamer turning a rail and bouncing over the ties was impressive. I wonder what actor Wolfgang Preiss' first reaction was after director John Frankenheimer told him to walk next to the locomotive as it left the rails.