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Filming locations. Málaga, Andalucía, Spain. (final shootout on rail track on mountain) Santa Maria Novella-SMN Train Station, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Cortina d'Ampezzo, Belluno, Veneto, Italy. Anzio, Rome, Lazio, Italy. (harbourside cafe) Gaeta, Latina, Lazio, Italy. (opening scenes)
Von Ryan's Express. 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. Produced in CinemaScope, the film depicts a group of Allied prisoners of war ( POWs) who conduct a daring escape by hijacking the freight train carrying the POWs and fleeing ...
- Von Ryan's Express, 1964 novel, by David Westheimer
- Saul David
- Mark Robson
- Wendell Mayes, Joseph Landon
Von Ryan’s Express. Date: 1965. Director: Mark Robson. Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, P-R Productions. Stars: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carra, Brad Dexter, Sergio Fantoni. Location (s): Andalucía (Spain), Lazio, Tuscany, Veneto (Italy) Region (s): Italy, Spain. Storyline:
Conversely, Von Ryan’s Express takes off when the escaped prisoners hijack a German train. The film opens in Italy in 1943 when an Italian unit captures downed American pilot Colonel Joseph L. Ryan (Frank Sinatra). When he arrives at the POW camp, Ryan finds a stubborn group of mostly British soldiers led by Major Fincham (Trevor Howard).
This last section of boardwalk is in a chain-link cage to protect the railway line below. Cross over the railway line where breathtaking train scenes at the end of 1965 World War Two film Von Ryan's Express were filmed (2:27 to 2:59 below).
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.
