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Von Ryan's Express is a 1965 World War II adventure film starring Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, and Raffaella Carrà, and directed by Mark Robson.
An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in Italy in this 1965 action adventure film. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this classic war movie.
- (15K)
- Action, Adventure, War
- Mark Robson
- 1965-06-23
Von Ryan's Express features a troop of Allied soldiers trying to break away from a prison camp in Italy.
Bologna... It hightails into the Majola Pass with Messerschitts in hot pursuit... and makes a final frenzied lunge for Switzer ...more. The most daring escape ever conceived. It begins at Pescara....
- 3 min
- 25.6K
- RetroBiografen
A World War II movie starring Frank Sinatra as a POW who leads a train escape from the Italians and Germans. See ratings, cast, plot summary, and watch options on Rotten Tomatoes.
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- Frank Sinatra
- Mark Robson
- War
A 1965 action thriller starring Frank Sinatra as an American POW who leads a daring escape from the Germans in Italy. Based on a novel by David Westheimer, the film features Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carra and Sergio Fantoni.
Von Ryan’s Express, American war film, released in 1965, that featured Frank Sinatra in an exciting tale of an Allied POW escape from occupied Italy during World War II. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) The film opens in a POW camp in Italy in 1943.
