The Von Ryan's Express

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August, 1943. Colonel Joseph Ryan of the US Army Air Forces is shot down in Italy and taken to a prison camp populated by the Royal Army's 9th Fusiliers and run by sadistic commandant Battaglia. With the recent passing of their commanding colonel, the 9th Fusiliers under Major Eric Fincham must now answer to the new senior officer of the prisoners, Ryan. Also in the camp are several American prisoners who don't cotton to Major Fincham's stubborn passive resistance to Battaglia, passive resistance that has led to denial of clean clothes, soap, running water, and decent food. When two of the Americans are "arrested" by Fincham for trying to steal medicines being horded for escape attempts, Ryan points out the varied tunnels being built by Fincham's men to Battaglia in exchange for necessities, but is double-crossed by Battaglia. Ryan then fights back with an audacious order, which embarasses Battaglia and sends Ryan to a sweatbox to die. But Italy surrenders a few days later and Battaglia is taken prisoner and put to trial in which he will be executed, even though with Italy out of the war he is now a civilian. Ryan disbands the trial and has Battaglia placed in the sweatbox, but a German overflight forces the battalion to flee for safety. After a day-night march, the escaped prisoners and trapped by German forces and herded onto a train, but not before their betrayer can stand and gloat at his victory, and earn Ryan seemingly permanent hatred by the British soldiers. Ryan, however, is not finished, and orchestrates an even more daring escape, seizing the train. But with German forces all around, and after escaping a bombing raid by British Lancasters, they must drive the train further north to escape the Germans and try for the only safe haven to be found.
Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy. Having seemingly made errors of judgment, Ryan has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers he is commanding.
For war movie fans, "Von Ryan's Express" is an entertaining film with considerable action. It's a fictional story about an escape of an entire POW camp during World War II. Only, unlike the real escape from a German POW camp in "The Great Escape," this one is from an Italian POW camp. And, it has plenty of action in a novel method of escape – by a commandeered prisoner transport train. All of the cast are very good.

The movie is based on a novel by David Westheimer. He was a B-24 navigator in the U.S. Army Air Forces during WW II. His plane was shot down by an Italian fighter plane and he spent 28 months in POW camps – first in Italy and then in Germany. The book is based on his experiences as a POW.

When a story is fiction it doesn't make much difference how much the movie may differ from the book – except in the case of recognized literary works. Or, for accuracy of otherwise factual matter or details in the face of credulity. In this case a couple of distinctions should be made about this film and the book. Frank Sinatra's Col. Joseph L. Ryan in the movie tells his British prison mates that he was a "90-day wonder." That refers to an officer who is commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant after three months of officer candidate school (OCS). In the book, Ryan was a West Point graduate who had worked his way up in rank. It's not realistic that a 2nd Lt. out of OCS would rise to the rank of Colonel in three years. I don't think there's a single instance of such in history.

The second thing that stretches the credibility of even a fictional story is that a full bird colonel would have been flying a mission at all. That was the regular rank of a Group commander of several squadrons, or even a Wing commander in some cases. Those command officers were not supposed to be flying missions. Their combat flying time was behind them and now they were to command the various units. Of course some did fly in combat, as the movie "Twelve O'Clock High" shows. But those were exceptions.

There are some other anomalies about this film. How did Ryan escape that crashed plane – that did a nose dive into the earth? Why didn't he bail out? Where were the rest of his crew? These are questions that came to my mind right away when I first watched this film. The plane mock-up in the crash scene didn't seem real either. It is interesting that Ryan's plane was shot down by an Italian fighter plane. Although it doesn't show that in action, that's what happened to the author of the book, and since this was yet over Italian military territory, it's implied. This may be the only movie made about WW II in which an allied plane is shot down by an Italian fighter plane.

I won't go into the apparent reversal of military posture – between the British and Americans, except to note that the film shows the reverse of the usual. The Brits, with their long history and military traditions, were always much more disciplined and spit and polish than the Americans would have been during WW II. And, especially when comparing British regular army with American Army air forces.

The POW camp stuff is fun and entertaining. Then, the action comes when the escaped POWs are herded onto a train for transport to Germany. Besides the daring stuff in this larger portion of the movie, the film has some wonderful scenic shots of the Italian countryside and the Alps. The scenes with the train racing against another in the mountains, and the German planes attacking are very good.

So, this fictional war movie makes for good entertainment, in a Hollywood style rendition of a war story. I do wonder why Hollywood seemed to have a penchant for showing so many top German officers in films having a woman in tow. That's a stereotype that didn't serve to enhance the credibility of many war films.

Frank Sinatra made nearly a dozen movies about WW II and Korea, but he didn't serve in the military. He was 26 years old when the U.S. entered the war. While most Hollywood actors of age were signing up for service – and many getting commissions, Sinatra was supposedly classified 4F for a ruptured eardrum. Eardrums usually repair themselves, and in some instances can be repaired surgically. Perhaps it was something else. He did very well in most of his war movie roles and won a best supporting actor Oscar as Angelo Maggio in "From Here to Eternity." i watched this movie and it was ok. I didn't even know that was Sinatra, until the credits. I didn't like his charactor.

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The ending is dumb. The movie had greatness up until the train gets derailed. the pows don't even try to get out and run into the tunnel. they want to fix the track which will eventually get some of them killed. just get out and run to switzerland. that is what i would of done. of course sinatra dies, which was crappyly done. not a good movie, the ending is what ruins it.
Von Ryan's Express is a 1964 novel by American novelist David Westheimer (1917-2005). The novel was adapted for the screen by Hollywood screenwriters Wendell Mayes and Joseph Landon. Those who have both read the novel and seen the movie say that the Ryan of the novel was a tougher and meaner character than Ryan as played by Frank Sinatra, making it easier to see why his fellow soldiers in the POW camp didn't like him at first. The book ending is also different than in the movie in that Ryan survives. They were filmed in El Chorro, a region of Málaga, Spain, where the train weaves in and out of the gorge through about eight kilometers of tunnels.

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