To celebrate the release of Von Ryan’s Express – available on Blu-ray, DVD & Digital HD Dual Format from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 13th August 2018 – we are giving away a copy!
Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard star in this classic war drama directed by Mark Robson. When Us pilot Colonel Joseph Ryan (Sinatra) is shot down and placed in a German prisoner of war camp, he is more concerned with his own survival than escape. The top-ranking officer in the camp, he is initially reviled by his fellow British and American prisoners, who nickname him Von Ryan. However, Ryan eventually comes to lead them in a daring escape attempt, taking over from the commanding British officer (Howard), and the escapees face many hazards as they commandeer a train to make their way across Italy, closely followed by the Nazis.
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Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard star in this classic war drama directed by Mark Robson. When Us pilot Colonel Joseph Ryan (Sinatra) is shot down and placed in a German prisoner of war camp, he is more concerned with his own survival than escape. The top-ranking officer in the camp, he is initially reviled by his fellow British and American prisoners, who nickname him Von Ryan. However, Ryan eventually comes to lead them in a daring escape attempt, taking over from the commanding British officer (Howard), and the escapees face many hazards as they commandeer a train to make their way across Italy, closely followed by the Nazis.
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- 8/9/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Von Ryan's Express novelist and former journalist David Westheimer has died of heart failure. He was 88. The World War II veteran died at UCLA Medical center in California on Tuesday. Texan Westheimer served as an air force navigator and was captured by enemy troops. He was released from a Prisoner of War camp in 1945 and drew on his experiences to write Von Ryan's Express, which followed a group of American soldiers on the run from Nazis in Italy and was later turned into a film starring Frank Sinatra. The celebrated novelist also wrote My Sweet Charlie, the story of a relationship between a black civil rights activist and a white teenager, which became a Broadway hit. He worked as editor of the Houston Post newspaper and his other novels included Summer Of The Water and Delay En Route.
- 11/15/2005
- WENN
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