

Von Ryans Express
An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII, which requires that the prisoners wrest control of a German train and propel it through Italy to Switzerland.
















5 May 1922, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

April 4, 1930 in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus]

27 July 1922, Messina, Sicily, Italy

19 February 1944, Pecos, Texas, USA

11 September 1934, Grays, Essex, England, UK

24 July 1936, Augsburg,

18 August 1928, Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA


3 June 1901, Calabria, Italy

7 May 1917, Mayfield, Kentucky, USA

26 January 1918, San Francisco, California, USA

27 February 1910, Nuremberg, Bavaria,

22 June 1916, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

24 October 1933, California, USA

July 23, 1920

25 December 1927

3 May 1930, Italy

June 20, 1928 in Innsbruck, Austria


17 September 1908, Edmonton, London, England, UK

October 5, 1907 in Vilna, Russia


18 November 1928, Rome, Lazio, Italy

25 November 1937, Redwood City, California, USA

23 May 1943, Burlington, Vermont, USA

9 April 1917, Goldfield, Nevada, USA

24 March 1910, Portland, Maine, USA

8 April 1923, Cork, Ireland

7 August 1930, Rome, Lazio, Italy

8 May 1935, Kitzbühel, Tyrol, Austria


December 18, 2002
An action packed prisoner of war thriller and Ole Blue Eyes doesn't even sing a note.
August 16, 2001
Sinatra at his swaggering best.
March 09, 2006
Exciting Sinatra starring vehicle set during WWII.
December 28, 2003
Made for those who like those old-fashioned serial chapter adventure stories.
August 02, 2007
A far-fetched but thrilling World War II adventure. Watch it as part of a double feature with John Frankenheimer's The Train.