A great scene from one of my favorite movies. Burt Lancaster had been an acrobat when he was younger and injured his knee. During filming he was playing golf when he re-injured it. They needed to “explain” why he was limping, so in this scene he gets shot.
From when he jumps off the train until he gets shot, he had to run normally with an injured knee. That had to have hurt!
When the production company asked the SNCF (the French national rail service) if they had any WWII-era locomotives available the answer was “Yes, we still use them and we’re currently scrapping them all”. So they bought them at scrap value, used them for the movie and then sold them…at scrap value!
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Looks like a prequel to “Closely Watched Trains” (1964)…
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A great scene from one of my favorite movies. Burt Lancaster had been an acrobat when he was younger and injured his knee. During filming he was playing golf when he re-injured it. They needed to “explain” why he was limping, so in this scene he gets shot.
From when he jumps off the train until he gets shot, he had to run normally with an injured knee. That had to have hurt!
When the production company asked the SNCF (the French national rail service) if they had any WWII-era locomotives available the answer was “Yes, we still use them and we’re currently scrapping them all”. So they bought them at scrap value, used them for the movie and then sold them…at scrap value!
Looks like a prequel to “Closely Watched Trains” (1964)…