Von Ryan's Express 1965 XviD 100% multi-lang Comm Honeyko anamorphic

VON RYAN'S EXPRESS (1965): Action, War, Thriller, Suspense, Drama, Nazis,

POW Camp, Prison-escape, Railroads, Planes vs. Trains, Frank Sinatra,

Trevor Howard, Alpine & Italian scenery, Jerry Goldsmith score.



-- One of the best of the 60's action-dramas centered on World War II,

"Von Ryan's Express" compares well to similar films such as "Where Eagles

Dare", "The Dirty Dozen" and "The Bridge at Remagen" (among many others).



Video Source ..........: Region 1 widescreen NTSC DVD9 two-disk set

-- While a lot of effort was put into making extras for the DVD release,

the film itself is not restored; it's slightly fuzzy, hasn't been cleaned

of dirt, hairs and scratches, and has English hard-subs for Nazi dialogue.

Video Codec ...........: XviD, CQ 2.75, LEM, Lanczos, Didees SixOfNine-HVS

Frame Size ............: 720x368, 854x368 Anamorphic DAR

FPS ...................: 23.976 original, 2998 Kbps

Original film VOB size : 7.544gb; size of rip: 2.44gb



Audio: English, French, Spanish original theatrical mono, Commentary,

English 2.0 Surround-Sound: unaltered 192Kbps AC3 from NTSC DVD

DVD Extras Audio: 112Kbps ABR lame mp3 except unaltered for Music Of.



Subtitles: Croat Czech Danish Dutch English+CC Finnish French+CC Hebrew

Icelandic Norwegian Polish Portuguese Rumanian Serbian Spanish+CC Swedish

Turkish. ...unfortunately I could NOT find Italian subtitles (wtf???)



Extras:



* Bringing Movies to Life - The Legacy of Jerry Goldsmith

* Hollywood and its War Films

* Reliving the Adventure (making of Von Ryan's Express)

* The Music of (Jerry Goldsmith, Von Ryan's Express)

* Trailers (three, including English + Italian audio for color WS)



***** Reviews:



-- Forget Indiana Jones. This 1965 high adventure stars Frank Sinatra as

the leader of a mass escape from a World War II POW camp in Italy. That

mission accomplished, Old Blue Eyes has sundry adventures camouflaging the

freed men as German soldiers, trying to fool the Gestapo, and finally doing

battle with enemy planes and ground troops while trying to get a hijacked

train through a blocked tunnel. Sinatra is in great form and director Mark

Robson handles the endless chain of action set-pieces with panache. A great

pulse-quickener. --Tom Keogh



-- "Von Ryan's express" stands out among the most exciting, explosive and

moving of epic war films, not only because its vibrant finale in the middle

of those arresting Swiss landscapes, it also explores, step by step, the

hard lessons in leadership Sinatra's Colonel Ryan must learn in leading

a group of escaped prisoners across enemy-held territory.

...One of the most relevant war films ever made.