Movie
Von Ryan's Express
Synopsis
Mark Robson's Second World War adventure stars Frank Sinatra as the leader of Allied prisoners of war attempting to slip the clutches of their captors. In occupied Italy, a group of mainly English PoWs are set to make their escape from their camp when a tough American Colonel, Joseph Ryan, is incarcerated with them. On learning the details of their plot, and thinking it amounts to suicide, he blows their plans by telling the Italian guards. His action earns their hatred, and the moniker 'von Ryan'. However, Ryan is eventually able to make it up to his comrades when he spies the opportunity to hijack a train, and the possibility of conveying them all to safety in Switzerland. Even so, that still leaves them with a lot of the Italian countryside to cover, with the Nazis and Fascists determined to stop them, plus more trouble than they were expecting from their fellow Allied forces. Also starring Trevor Howard.
Cast
- Frank Sinatra
- Trevor Howard
- Sergio Fantoni
- Brad Dexter
- John Leyton
- Edward Mulhare
- Raffaella CarrÃ
- Wolfgang Preiss
- James Brolin
- John Van Dreelen
- Adolfo Celi
- Vito Scotti
- Richard Bakalyan
- Michael Goodliffe
- Michael St. Clair
- Luther Adler
- Ivan Triesault
- Al Wyatt
- Buzz Henry
- John Day
- James B. Sikking
- Eric Micklewood
- John Mitory
- Benito Prezia
- Gino Gottarelli
- Dominick Delgarde
- Barry Ford
- Peter Hellman
- Don Grant
- Michael Romanoff
- Walter Linden
- Bard Stevens
- Ernesto Melinari
- Bob Rosen
- Jack Martin Smith
- Mark Robson
- Brian Gaffikin
- Joseph Landon
- Walter Rossi
- David Westheimer
- Dorothy Spencer
- Wendell Mayes
- Raphael Bretton
- L.B. Abbott
- Hilyard M. Brown
- Walter A. Rossi
- Walter Scott
- William H. Daniels
- Emil Kosa Jr.
