S.O.S. Titanic (1979)

Actors: Harry Andrews (actor), David Battley (actor), Ed Bishop (actor), Peter Bourke (actor), Nick Brimble (actor), Jacob Brooke (actor), Tony Caunter (actor), Warren Clarke (actor), Nicholas Davies (actor), Philip Davis (actor), Peter Fontaine (actor), Norman Gay (actor), Matthew Guinness (actor), Tony Haygarth (actor), Ian Abercrombie (actor),

Plot: On April 14, 1912 the R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage. Over 1500 people were lost. This docudrama follows the personal stories of some of the passengers and crew aboard on that fateful night. John Jacob Astor and his new bride Madeline, Laurence Beesley, Molly Brown, a group of Irish emigrants, the wireless operators and the stewards are among the characters.

Keywords: 1910s, iceberg, irish-immigrant, newfoundland, ocean-liner, ship-wreck, shipboard-romance, titanic, tv-movie
Genres: Drama, History,

The Train (1964)

Actors: Victor Beaumont (actor), Jean-Claude Bercq (actor), Jacques Blot (actor), Paul Bonifas (actor), Jean Bouchaud (actor), Arthur Brauss (actor), Gérard Buhr (actor), Michel Charrel (actor), Nick Dimitri (actor), Louis Falavigna (actor), Max Fromm (actor), Christian Fuin (actor), Helmo Kindermann (actor), Bernard La Jarrige (actor), Richard Bailey (actor),

Plot: As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.

Keywords: air-raid, air-raid-siren, army, art, art-collection, art-theft, bartender, based-on-book, beating, bicycling
Genres: Action, Thriller, War,
Taglines: It carried their hopes, their nation's honour!

Quotes:

Resistance leader: London agrees the art is important. Anything we can do to save it... but they leave it up to us.::Labiche: Why not? What can they lose? This morning we had four men left in this group. Now we have three. One, two, three.::Pesquet: Bernard?::Labiche: We started with eighteen. Like your paintings, mademoiselle, we couldn't replace them. For certain things we take the risk, but I won't waste lives on paintings.::Miss Villard: They wouldn't be wasted! Excuse me, I know that's a terrible thing to say. But those paintings are part of France. The Germans want to take them away. They've taken our land, our food, they live in our houses, and now they're trying to take our art. This beauty, this vision of life, born out of France, our special vision, our trust... we hold it in trust, don't you see, for everyone? This is our pride, what we create and hold for the world. There are worse things to risk your life for than that.::Labiche: I'm sorry, mademoiselle, we can't help you.

Resistance leader: Right after dawn, all switching tracks and trains in the area will be bombed. The art train is not to be destroyed. Orders are to mark it so that the planes will pass it up.::Labiche: Mark it!::Resistance leader: White paint, on the top of the first three cars. London has decided the paintings must not be damaged.::Labiche: Paint it? For von Waldheim-- make him a present? To hell with London! We started this whole thing for one reason: to stop the train, because the Allies were going to be here! Well, where are they? Every day they've been due, and every day a man has been killed for thinking they were just over the next hill. I say to hell with them. Now they want us to paint the train? Let 'em blow it up!::Didont: Paul, it'd be too bad, if it got blown up... that is, if it could be saved. Papa Boule, Pesquet, the others... they wanted it saved.::Labiche: And they're dead. And they'll never know!::Didont: But we will.

[The tracks are being cleared after the deliberate wreck.]::Colonel von Waldheim: I asked for two cranes.::Major Herren: It took an order from staff headquarters to get this one. With von Runstedt falling back, the army has other uses for railway equipment.::Colonel von Waldheim: All von Runstedt can lose is men. This train is more valuable.

Colonel von Waldheim: Labiche! Here's your prize, Labiche. Some of the greatest paintings in the world. Does it please you, Labiche? Give you a sense of excitement in just being near them? A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. You won by sheer luck: you stopped me without knowing what you were doing, or why. You are nothing, Labiche -- a lump of flesh. The paintings are mine; they always will be; beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it! They will always belong to me or to a man like me. Now, this minute, you couldn't tell me why you did what you did.

Miss Villard: I knew of books being burned, other things... I was terrified that these would be lost.::Colonel von Waldheim: A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.::Miss Villard: You won't convince me that you're cynical. I know what these paintings mean to you.::Colonel von Waldheim: You are a perceptive woman. [Schmidt enters, with several other soldiers.] We're removing the paintings. Pack them carefully.::Miss Villard: Where are you taking them?!::Colonel von Waldheim: To a safe place.::Miss Villard: But no place is as safe as Paris!

Labiche: Thank you.::Christine: I don't want your thanks. If they'd caught me helping you, I would have been shot.::Labiche: I know. I'm sorry.::Christine: You think you can just run in and out of here and make trouble? I run a hotel, not a madhouse. Who's going to pay for the door? Who's going to pay for the lock? Do you think money grows on trees?::Labiche: There's a war...::Christine: You talk about the war. I talk about what it costs!::Labiche: I'll be leaving in a few hours. You can go back to your good customers.::Christine: They pay. That's what I'm in business for.::Labiche: You should be paid. How much for the damage?::Christine: One hundred francs.::[He pays her.]::Labiche: How much for saving my life?

Labiche: Where are the Allies?::Resistance leader: It has been arranged for a French division to reach Paris first. A gesture.::Labiche: Gesture! They can make gestures! Let them make one for Pesquet, or Jacques! That kid of Lefèvre's... he'd appreciate a gesture.

Didont: I don't like it.::Pesquet: Who does?::Didont: I mean the art train. If the Germans want it so much, maybe we should do something.

Didont: With luck, no one will be hurt.::Labiche: No one's ever hurt. Just dead.::Didont: Paul, uh, have you ever seen any of those paintings on that train? I haven't. You know, when it's over, I think maybe we should take a look, hmm?

Christine: Men want to be heroes, and their widows mourn.

The Fighting 69th (1940)

Actors: John Arledge (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor), Jack Boyle Jr. (actor), George Brent (actor), James Cagney (actor), Richard Clayton (actor), Frank Coghlan Jr. (actor), Sammy Cohen (actor), Tom Coleman (actor), James Conaty (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), John Daheim (actor), Eddie Dew (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Herbert Anderson (actor),

Plot: "The Fighting 69th" is a First World War regiment of mostly New York-Irish soldiers. Amongst a cocky crew, perhaps the cockiest is Jerry Plunkett, a scrappy fellow who looks out only for himself. The officers and non-coms of the regiment do their best to instill discipline in Plunkett, and the chaplain, Father Duffy, tries to make Plunkett see the greater good, all to no avail. Behind the lines or in the trenches, Plunkett acts selfishly and cowardly, eventually costing the lives of many of his fellow soldiers. A final act of cowardice leads to terrible consequences, but Plunkett sees in them a chance to redeem himself...if only he can.

Keywords: arc-de-triomphe-paris, attack, based-on-true-story, basic-training, battle, bayonet, behind-enemy-lines, bolt-action-rifle, bombing, born-again-christian
Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War,
Taglines: Jammed With Action ! . . Loaded With Excitement ! . . . And Every Thrill-Packed Word Is True !

Quotes:

Terence 'Crepe-Hanger' Burke: An army's not an *army*, unless it *eats!* It's just a-a walking *famine!*

Father Duffy: When did an Irishman need a prayer in a fight?

Jerry Plunkett: Now go tell the colonel he wants you.

Jerry Plunkett: If they don't let us at those Boches pretty soon, I'll have to carve me up a top-sergeant!::Terence 'Crepe-Hanger' Burke: Don't mind him sarge, he's his own worst enemy!::Sergeant 'Big Mike' Wynn: Not while *I'm* alive, he ain't!

Major 'Wild Bill' Donovan: [to Father Duffy] Well, it's a fortunate thing you're not a *crook!* You could sell the *Brooklyn Bridge* to the *police department!*

Father Duffy: [praying] Almighty God, in Thine infinite mercy grant me, thy servant, the wisdom to guide my young flock through the trials of war. Oh, Father, they're so young. So young and they know so little of life and nothing at all of that terrible and bloody altar towards which they move, carrying so eagerly the bright sacrifice of their youth. Their need will be great, O Lord, and I am weak. Therefore, I beseech thee through Thy Son, Christ, our Lord, grant me the strength to keep them steadfast in the faith, in decency and courage to the glory of God, their country, and their regiment in the bad times to come. And if in battle you see fit to gather them to your protecting arms, thy will be done, but let them die like men, valiant and unafraid.

Terence 'Crepe-Hanger' Burke: Believe me, in the next war there's gonna be three guys missing - me and the two guys that's chasin' me.

Sergeant Joyce Kilmer: [reading his own poem at the site where many of the men had been buried alive] Perhaps their brave young spirits hear the bugle sing, go to sleep, go to sleep. Slumber well where the shell screamed and fell. Let your rifles rest on the muddy floor; you will not need them any more. Danger's past now at last, go to sleep. And up to Heaven's doorway floats from the wood called Rouge Bouquet, a delicate cloud of bugle notes that softly say, 'Farewell, farewell, comrades true. Born anew, peace to you. Your souls shall be where the heroes are, and your memory shine like the Morning Star. Brave and dear, shield us here. Farewell.'

Father Duffy: You know Jerry, you're getting yourself so "well-liked" in this army, that they'd rather machine gun *you* than the *Germans*! It was *bad enough* at Camp Mills, but instead in *improving* you've been getting *worse*!::Jerry Plunkett: Aw, that's what *you* think!::Father Duffy: No, that's what *everybody* thinks!

Father Duffy: I don't believe I've met *you* yet...::Jerry Plunkett: [thinks he is talking to a fellow recruit] Oh, I've been around. Plunkett's my name; Jerry Plunkett. "Smilin' Jerry" they call me, on account of my disposition!