Factual error: Near the end of the movie, the prisoners are on the front of the locomotive with the German officer. The colonel is in the cab with the engineer and says "10 miles an hour, no more." Germans use metric - so the speed should've been given in kilometers per hour.
The Train (1964)
1 factual error
Directed by: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon
Continuity mistake: Le Biche uses a pair of pliers to get the pipe out, but as he pulls the pipe out they vanish.
Didont: With luck, no one will be hurt.
Labiche: No one's ever hurt. Just dead.
Didont: Paul, uh, have you ever seen any of those paintings on that train? I haven't. You know, when it's over, I think maybe we should take a look, hmm?
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Answer: This appears to be continuity or editing mistake where the binoculars suddenly disappear.
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