Friday, February 20, 2009
ON THE RAILS
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was John Frankenheimer's
with Burt Lancaster and Paul Scofield.
The French resistance gets involved with a trainload of paintings that the Nazis are taking back to Germany just at the end of the war. The allies are on the way but not yet.
It is a good movie. Exciting. I saw it back then but it was still fresh this time.
There is not a lot to write about it without tipping it all off.
Hey. It is Burt Lancaster. I have said before that he is probably the most frequently seen actor in the Best Films series.
He does all his own stunts here and it makes a difference. Jumping on and off trains. All that.
A lot of it is predictable, I think. But maybe that is because I saw it before.
In any case this will be my last go 'round.
That makes it a 3 out of a Netflix5.
Labels: best films
