The Battle of the Rails

The Battle of the Rails

1946 · 85 min · FR · NR · 7.0 (30 votes)
Dir. René Clément · Starring Charles Boyer, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand, François Joux, Tony Laurent, Robert Le Ray · Music Yves Baudrier
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A 1946 war movie which tells the courageous efforts by French railway workers to sabotage Nazi reinforcement-troop trains.

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This film feels like a gritty, determined wartime drama. It captures the tense, heroic efforts of ordinary people making a difference against overwhelming odds. A testament to courage and the will to resist.

tenseheroicgrittydeterminedsteadywartime dramahistorical realismpropaganda-adjacentresistancesacrificewar effortpatriotism
world war iifrench resistancetrainrailroad
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