Editing Von Ryan's Express (section)

{{Short description|1965 film by Mark Robson}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Von Ryan's Express
| image          = VonRyansExpress.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster by [[Tom Chantrell]]
| director       = [[Mark Robson (film director)|Mark Robson]]
| producer       = [[Saul David (producer)|Saul David]]
| screenplay     = [[Wendell Mayes]]<br />Joseph Landon
| based_on       = {{based on|''Von Ryan's Express''<br>1964 novel|[[David Westheimer]]}}
| starring       = [[Frank Sinatra]]<br />[[Trevor Howard]]<br>[[Raffaella Carrà]]<br>[[Brad Dexter]]<br>[[Sergio Fantoni]]<br>[[John Leyton]]<br>[[Edward Mulhare]]<br>[[Wolfgang Preiss]]
| music          = [[Jerry Goldsmith]]
| cinematography = [[William Daniels (cinematographer)|William H. Daniels]]
| editing        = [[Dorothy Spencer]]
| distributor    = [[20th Century Fox]]
| released       = {{Film date|1965|06|23}}
| runtime        = 117 minutes
| language       = English/Italian
| country        = United States
| budget         = $5.76 million<ref>{{cite book| last=Solomon| first=Aubrey| title=Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series)| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WIZwZOz8LHsC&q=Twentieth+Century+Fox:+A+Corporate+and+Financial+History| location=Lanham, Maryland| publisher=Scarecrow Press| year=1989| isbn=978-0-8108-4244-1| page=254| url-access=subscription}}</ref>
| gross          = $17.1 million<ref name="numbers">{{cite web| url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1965/0VREX.php| website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]]| title=Von Ryan's Express, Box Office Information| access-date=January 22, 2013}}</ref>
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'''''Von Ryan's Express''''' is a 1965 [[World War II]] [[adventure film]] starring [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Trevor Howard]], and [[Raffaella Carrà]], and directed by [[Mark Robson (film director)|Mark Robson]]. Produced in [[CinemaScope]], the film depicts a group of [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] prisoners of war ([[POW]]s) who conduct a daring escape by hijacking the freight train carrying the POWs and fleeing through [[Italian Social Republic|German-occupied Italy]] to [[Switzerland]]. Based on the 1964 novel by [[David Westheimer]], the film changes several aspects of the novel, most notably the ending, which is considerably more upbeat in the book. Financially, it became one of Sinatra's most successful films.