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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.
Von Ryan's Express: Directed by Mark Robson. With Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Brad Dexter. An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII.
Von Ryan's Express features a troop of Allied soldiers trying to break away from a prison camp in Italy.
Nov 25, 2015. Runtime. 1h 57m. World War II story about Allied prisoners who stage a mass breakout from an Italian POW camp, commandeer a train and head...
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Feb 20, 2015 · 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....
Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy. Having seemingly made errors of judgement, Ryan has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers he is commanding.
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.
