The Train - BLU-RAY

In this hard-hitting action-thriller, Don Lee stars as a legendary gangster enjoying a quiet retirement. When his wife is kidnapped, he must once again become the brutal criminal he left behind.

In this riveting World War II tale, Burt Lancaster plays Paul Labiche, a railway engineer who enlists the help of members of the French Resistance to stop a train filled with national art treasures that is being routed to Germany by the Nazis. Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Simon, Suzanne Flon, and Wolfgang Preiss also star in John Frankenheimer's based-on-fact wartime thriller. 133 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks English DTS 5.1, DTS Lossless stereo; Subtitles English; audio commentary by Frankenheimer, others; isolated music score; featurette; theatrical trailers; TV spot. Two-disc set.

From John Frankenheimer, the acclaimed director of The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, Seconds and Ronin, comes this action-packed WWII masterpiece starring screen legend Burt Lancaster (Run Silent Run Deep, Elmer Gantry, The Professionals). Paris, August 1944 with the Allied army closing in on German commander and art fanatic Colonel Franz Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons), he decides to steal a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. But when a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche (Lancaster), a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost. Calling upon his vast arsenal of skills, Labiche unleashes a torrent of devastation and destruction loosened rails, shattered tracks and head-on collisions in an impassioned, suspense-filled quest for justice, retribution and revenge. Featuring a top-notch score by Maurice Jarre (Doctor Zhivago) and a wonderful supporting performance by screen icon Jeanne Moreau (Diary of a Chambermaid), The Train was the fourth of five collaborations between filmmaker Frankenheimer and star Lancaster.