Film · 1964 · Films · 1960s
The Train
Scored from 157 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
In August 1944, with Allied forces closing on Paris, German colonel von Waldheim crates the modern paintings held at the Jeu de Paume - Renoir, Degas, Gauguin, Picasso - and orders them loaded onto a train bound for Germany. The museum's curator appeals to the Resistance, and the job falls to Paul Labiche, a railway area inspector played by Burt Lancaster, who argues at first that no canvas is worth the lives it will cost. Because the cargo must not be destroyed, the railwaymen fight the train with delay and deception, repainting station signs and misrouting it to keep it inside France until liberation arrives. John Frankenheimer's black-and-white war thriller was staged with real locomotives and full-size wrecks, with Paul Scofield as the colonel.
Released in 1964, The Train is an action, thriller and war film. It runs 2h 13m. Its country of origin is listed as France, Italy and the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 157 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 159 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Train lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 157.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
