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Von Ryan's Express 112 minutes, United States (1965), PG
Average user rating (4.7 / 41 votes)

Frank Sinatra leads a mass breakout of an Italian POW camp - a ripping yarn culminating in a wild train dash through Germany

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Von Ryan's Express: Italy, 1943: captured and taken to a POW camp, Colonel Joseph Ryan (Sinatra) is condemned as ‘Von' Ryan after he scuppers a 'suicidal' British escape attempt. Ryan spots a better opportunity for freedom when the inmates are relocated to Germany: he hijacks the train and heads for Switzerland, hotly pursued (of course) by the dastardly Nazis...
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