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The Train

The Train. John Frankenheimer & Arthur Penn, 1964.
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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2015. English language. Runtime approximately 133 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.

After a slightly slow and pedantic setup, this The Train quickly escalates into  a gripping account of deception and sabotage. Burt Lancaster is awesome in this movie and we get to watch him do cool things like cast and install a bearing for a locomotive side rod, wire plastic explosives to a detonator, and dismantle retaining plates on railroad tracks.