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Saturday Cinema Double Bill

on BBC Two England

THE TRAIN
starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
Based on one of the most daring incidents of World War Two, this classic adventure story tells of one man's struggle to save some of France's greatest art treasures from the Nazis.
When the Germans decide to move many of the finest paintings across the border, the French underground fighters determine to stop them. Led by a railway official, Labiche, the resistance carries out its dangerous plan to 'kidnap' the train on its way...

and at 4.0-5.35
THE GIFT OF LOVE starring Marie Osmond, Timothy Bottoms. A young Swiss immigrant falls in love with a girl he meets in the park, not knowing that she is an heiress and engaged to a man she does not love ...
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Contributors

Screenplay ("The Train"):
Franklin Coen
Screenplay ("The Train"):
Frank Davis
Producer ("The Train"):
Jules Bricken
Director ("The Train"):
John Frankenheimer
Labiche:
Burt Lancaster
Colonel Von Waldheim:
Paul Scofield
Christine:
Jeanne Moreau
Papa Boule:
Michel Simon
Mile Villard:
Suzanne Flon
Herren:
Wolfgang Preiss
Von Lubitz:
Richard Munch
Didont:
Albert Remy
Pesquet:
Charles Millot
Jacques:
Jaques Marin
Spinet:
Paul Bonifas
Screenplay ("The Gift of Love"):
Caryl Ledner
Producer ("The Gift of Love"):
Mitchell Brower
Director ("The Gift of Love"):
Don Chaffey
Beth Atherton:
Marie Osmond
Rudi Miller:
Timothy Bottoms
Mary O'Halloran:
Sondra West
Franz Hollner:
Robert Pierce
Alfred Browning:
James Woods
Uncle William:
Donald Moffat
Constance Schuyler:
June Lockhart
Agnes:
Bethel Leslie
O Henry:
David Wayne

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