Guillermo del Toro Calls This Free-to-Stream Stone Cold Classic a “Masterful action thriller”
We are back today with another exciting movie recommendation from auteur creator Guillermo del Toro. Today’s pick is a classic actioner that del Toro previously praised via Twitter (it will absolutely never be X to me). The Crimson Peak director has nothing but love for this one. You can scope a quote from the post in question directly below.
“Film: The Train by John Frankenheimer. Masterful action thriller. A meditation on the nature of art and war. Taut script and superb actors.”
-Guillermo del Toro
While del Toro is surely an enthusiastic fan of the film, he’s far from the only one. The Train has a stellar Rotten Tomatoes critical approval rating of 94% with 18 reviews tallied. Additionally, the flick sits at a very respectable 89% audience approval score on the site.
Critics praised the film for delivering astute commentary on the evils of war and for serving up breakneck action sequences from start to finish.
If you have yet to experience the picture and find yourself eager to do so, make your way over to Tubi where the film is presently streaming for free (with ads).
Here’s the setup for this acclaimed actioner (per Google Movies): With the Allies poised to retake Paris from the Germans, Col. Franz Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) conspires to sneak out by train all of the art masterpieces looted by the German army. But museum curator Mademoiselle Villard (Suzanne Flon) alerts the French Resistance, and soon railway inspector Paul Labiche (Burt Lancaster) is pressed into service. He reroutes the train and cleverly deceives Von Waldheim by renaming each train station along the way.
The picture takes some inspiration from the nonfiction tome Le front de l’art by Rose Valland. The book chronicles the theft of several noteworthy works of art in France at the hands of Nazi soldiers.
Director Frankenheimer helmed from a script by Franklin Coen, Frank Davis, and Walter Bernstein. Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, and Michel Simon make up the film’s core cast.
There it is, Guillermo del Toro is a big fan of the classic action picture The Train and it’s steaming via Tubi at present. Heck yes.
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