What is The Train / 13 Rue Madeleine about?

Name: The Train / 13 Rue Madeleine
Genre: Action/Adventure,Suspense/Thriller

THE TRAIN, 1964, MGM Repertory, 133 min. After the 1944 Allied landing at Normandy, initially reluctant train station manager Burt Lancaster sabotages the looting of France’s art treasures by Nazi colonel Paul Scofield Lancaster, doing his own stunts, and director John Frankenheimer’s spectacular staging of derailments, air raids and shootouts makes for one hair-raising wartime adventure. With Jeanne Moreau. 13 RUE MADELEINE, 1947, 20th Century Fox, 95 min. Director Henry Hathaway pioneered hardboiled docudramas such as this hard-as-nails WWII espionage yarn. James Cagney, searching for a Nazi mole in the OSS training camp as D-Day approaches, ends up in occupied France, aided by Resistance fighter Annabella. Richard Conte is the average American Joe who may be a high-ranking SS officer. Cagney’s final scene is as hardboiled as it gets, rivaling the climax of White Heat for impact.

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What is The Train / 13 Rue Madeleine about?: THE TRAIN, 1964, MGM Repertory, 133 min. After the 1944 Allied landing at Normandy, initially reluctant train station manager Burt Lancaster sabotages the looting of France’s art treasures by Nazi colonel Paul Scofield Lancaster, doing his own stunts, and director John Frankenheimer’s spectacular staging of derailments, air raids and shootouts makes for one hair-raising wartime adventure. With Jeanne Moreau.

13 RUE MADELEINE, 1947, 20th Century Fox, 95 min. Director Henry Hathaway pioneered hardboiled docudramas such as this hard-as-nails WWII espionage yarn. James Cagney, searching for a Nazi mole in the OSS training camp as D-Day approaches, ends up in occupied France, aided by Resistance fighter Annabella. Richard Conte is the average American Joe who may be a high-ranking SS officer. Cagney’s final scene is as hardboiled as it gets, rivaling the climax of White Heat for impact.