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THE BATTLE OF THE RAILS is a rare little title that I managed to catch on Talking Pictures TV here in the UK in the first showing since 1960. It's a black and white drama about the efforts of the French Resistance to sabotage Nazi-controlled trains during WW2.
The Battle of the Rails 1945 1h 22m Drama List Reviews 71% Audience Score 100+ Ratings Railroad workers fight in the French Resistance during World War II.
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- René Clément
- Drama
- Jean Daurand
The Battle of the Rails Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. André Bazin Esprit. The morality of art fuses here with the morality of history. The...
The Battle of the Rails (French: La Bataille du rail) is a 1946 French war film directed by René Clément. It depicts the efforts by railway workers in the French Resistance to sabotage German military transport trains during the Second World War, particularly during the Invasion of Normandy by Allies. [1]
Review by Luke Thorne ★★★★ Renè Clèment’s war drama is the story of the brave railroad workers in the French Resistance and their efforts to sabotage the Germans during WWII. Starring Marcel Barnault and Jean Clarieux.
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- Coopérative Générale du Cinéma Français
- René Clément
The Battle of the Rails (La Bataille du rail) is a 1946 film, directed by René Clément (Is Paris Burning?), depicting French railway workers resisting German occupation. It is interesting and at some points excellent, but it is often not engaging.
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Synopsis: Central France. The armed resistance gives the Nazi occupiers grief, but it is the railway workers who take the risks -- and suffer the summary executions -- when sabotage is used to bring German rail traffic to a halt.
