Von Ryan's Express
Overview
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
- Budget
- $5,760,000
- Revenue
- $17,111,111
- Production
- P-R Productions Picture, 20th Century Fox
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Cast
Frank Sinatra
Colonel Joseph L. Ryan
Trevor Howard
Major Eric Fincham
Raffaella Carrà
Gabriella
Brad Dexter
Sergeant Bostick
Sergio Fantoni
Captain Oriani
John Leyton
Lt. Orde
Edward Mulhare
Captain Costanzo
Wolfgang Preiss
Major Von Klemment
James Brolin
Private Ames
Adolfo Celi
Battaglia
Vito Scotti
Peppino, Italian Train Engineer
Richard Bakalyan
Corporal Giannini
Michael Goodliffe
Captain Stein
Michael St. Clair
Sergeant Major Dunbar
Ivan Triesault
Von Kleist
Ian Abercrombie
English POW
Jacques Stany
Gortz's Aide
Robert "Buzz" Henry
American POW
John Daheim
American POW
James B. Sikking
American POW
Crew
- Director
- Mark Robson
- Writers
- Wendell Mayes,Joseph Landon
- Producers
- Saul David
- Cinematography
- William H. Daniels
- Composer
- Jerry Goldsmith
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John Chard
October 4, 2015
Get on board with Frankie Blue Eyes. Out of 20th Century Fox, Von Ryan's Express is directed by Mark Robson & stars Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard. It's adapted by Wendell Mayes & Joseph Landon from the novel by David Westheimer. William H. Daniels is on photography and Jerry Goldsmith provides the score. Contary to what some sources say, this is not filmed in Panavision, it is filmed in Fox's trusted CinemaScope in De Luxe Color. Unless the opening credits are telling lies that is! Italy…
CinemaSerf
July 20, 2024
"Col. Ryan" (Frank Sinatra) arrives at an Italian POW camp to find it's mainly British occupants at loggerheads with the Commandant "Battaglia" (Adolfo Celi). It seems his brutality led to the death of their former CO and now "Maj. Fincham" (Trevor Howard) is out for blood! "Ryan" is a more calculating man, though, and that initially elicits hostility from the men - hence the "von Ryan", but his patience pays off and soon he is able to lead the whole lot of them on an audacious escape attempt th…
Wuchak
September 25, 2024
**_Escaping the Germans by train in Italy_** A captured American colonel (Frank Sinatra) takes command of the POWs at an Italian camp in 1943. He conflicts with the rigid Brit major (Trevor Howard) as the Allies soon land in Selerno. The opportunity eventually surfaces to take command of a train and possibly escape north. Sergio Fantoni plays an Italian captain who teams up with them. "Von Ryan’s Express" (1965) was based on the book by David Westheimer, who himself was a navigator in a B…