The Train: Tropes

Signature tropes

The ones that say the most about The Train. Pick one to read it.

• The Caperin 365 titlesThe original plan to save the paintings was a Mission: Impossible plot two years before the series existed.Read →
• The Men Firstin 88 titlesLabiche points it out clearly in his Establishing Character Moment: as much as it will paint him as a jerk to the rest of the Resistance, he will not put more value on the art over that of human live…Read →
• It's All About Mein 2,182 titlesAll von Waldheim cares about is his train with its art cargo; and any other trains no matter how important for the rest of the Nazis (like supplies for the troops on the French front) will have to wa…Read →
• Dwindling Partyin 1,204 titlesThe reason why Labiche was originally reluctant to do the art train job was because over the course of five years of occupation, his resistance cell had gone from eighteen men to three, and with libe…Read →
• Even Evil Has Standardsin 4,387 titlesA couple of other German officers that appear throughout the film proclaim their utter loathing of Von Waldheim and his obsession to get his train to Germany no matter what, because being of a higher…Read →
• Shown Their Workin 4,122 titlesPapa Boule's trick with the franc pieces in the oil lines of the locomotive is a real World War II sabotage method.Read →