The Train (1964, b/w)

FILM4, 1.15PM ★★★★

 Director John Frankenheimer pitches French resistance member Paul Labiche (Burt Lancaster) against German Colonel Franz von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) in this Second World War art-theft adventure that knocks spots off George Clooney’s misfiring The Monuments Men (2014). As the Germans retreat from Paris, Waldheim secures a train to bring back plundered masterpieces.