the vibe
Franklin Coen’s Typical Vibe
2 films — gripping, dark, intense, clear, tense
pacing
Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Franklin Coen has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Train.
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.
Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
Dir. Joseph M. Newman, Jack Arnold · With Rex Reason, Faith Domergue, Jeff Morrow
