Stop Train 349
Cast & Crew
Rolf Haedrich
Jose Ferrer
Sean Flynn
Nicole Courcel
Jess Hahn
Joseph Yadin
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
As an American train sealed for security travels through East Germany toward Frankfurt, Kathy, a nurse, sees Banner, a young East German, clinging to the outside of a window and helps him inside. The East German authorities are aware that the refugee, whose family has escaped to West Germany, is aboard, and they phone the border control station to order the train stopped. A reporter named Cowan discovers Banner and plans to expose the escape attempt in a big story since he feels no pity for the German people. The train's commanding officer, Lieutenant Novak, at first denies that the escapee is aboard and refuses to allow the compartments to be searched. When he learns the true situation, however, he wires his colonel for instructions. At Marienborn the train is halted, and the stalemate continues with U. S. and Russian authorities taking opposite sides. Novak risks a possible court martial by promising the refugee that he will not be relinquished. Banner forces the issue when he makes another abortive escape attempt in front of the Russians. The carefully guarded secrecy surrounding the story leaks out, and West Berlin radios carry the news. With the incident reaching international proportions, Novak is forced to turn the young man over to Russian authorities.
Director
Rolf Haedrich
Cast
Jose Ferrer
Sean Flynn
Nicole Courcel
Jess Hahn
Joseph Yadin
Hans Joachim Schmiedel
Christiane Schmidtmer
Joy Aston
Art Brauss
Fred Dürr
Wolfgang Georgi
Annie Gorassini
Charles Hickman
Carlo Hintermann
Hjordis Hume
Margaret Jahnen
Maria Pia Luzi
Lothar Mann
Edward Meeks
Len Monroe
Antonella Murgia
Robert Shankland
Narziss Sokatscheff
Ted Turner
Konrad Thoms
Egon Vogel
Crew
Georges Arnstam
Dieter Bartels
Uschi Baumann
Norman Borisoff
Roger Fellous
Jochen Graubner
Jim Henaghan
Albrecht Hennings
Margot Jahn
Gunther Kortwich
Marc Maurette
Ruth Mohr
Hans Oppenheimer
Hans Oppenheimer
Willy Pickardt
Peter Thomas
Will Tremper
Ray Ventura
Ray Ventura
Victor Vicas
Film Details
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Notes
Opened in Paris in June 1964 as Le train de Berlin est arrêté at 92 min; in Rome in March 1965 as Un treno è fermo a Berlino at 95 min; in West Germany as Verspätung in Marienborn at 105 min.
