Von Ryan's Express (1965) |
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| Director(s) | Mark Robson |
| Producer(s) | Saul David |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Film Adaptation, War |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Period Piece, World War II |
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Frank Sinatra(as Col. Joseph L. Ryan)
Von Ryan's Express
Released
1965
Von Ryan's Express
Released
1965
Frank Sinatra
(as Col. Joseph L. Ryan)
Trevor Howard(as Major Eric Fincham)
Von Ryan's Express
Released
1965
Von Ryan's Express
Released
1965
Trevor Howard
(as Major Eric Fincham)
Brad Dexter(as Sgt. Bostick)
Von Ryan's Express
Released
1965
Von Ryan's Express
Released
1965
Brad Dexter
(as Sgt. Bostick)
Adolfo Celi(as Battaglia)
Von Ryan's Express
Released
1965
Von Ryan's Express
Released
1965
Adolfo Celi
(as Battaglia)
Vito Scotti(as Italian Train Engineer)
Von Ryan's Express
Released
1965
Von Ryan's Express
Released
1965
Vito Scotti
(as Italian Train Engineer)
Ivan Triesault(as Von Kleist)
Von Ryan's Express
Released
1965
Von Ryan's Express
Released
1965
Ivan Triesault
(as Von Kleist)
Von Ryan's Express Overview:
Von Ryan's Express (1965) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by Mark Robson and produced by Saul David.
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Average Shot Length = ~5.3 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~5.4 seconds.
The cast features 3 stars who had UK chart hits. Frank Sinatra, John Leyton and Raffaella Carrà (who charted in 1978 with "Do It, Do It Again").
This movie's opening prologue states: "ITALY, AUGUST 1943. With the Allies poised to strike, the Germans seized control of Italy. So the war-weary Italian nation fought on, a prisoner of the German armies."
Frank Sinatra mandated that this movie's ending be changed and subsequently this destroyed any possibility of a sequel that the 20th Century Fox studio was considering. In the original ending which appears in the source novel, Ryan is not killed as with the film's ending, he survives and with the other escaped POWs, is able to get to neutral Switzerland. This ending would have allowed Ryan, the movie's central character, to appear in a sequel. Sinatra wished for his character to be killed off to add a token of believability to the movie as well as for there to be redemption for the death of the female character Gabriella.