The Train

Factual error: During the scenes with the armored train, a USATC S100 can be seen. This should not be possible as the S100s were American locomotives sent to the Allies during the war and would not have been in France at the time. They only arrived in France after WW2.

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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.

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Mistakes

Other mistake: Labiche uses binoculars to view the coupling of the armament train from the control tower (when they are deliberately delaying train coupling), but the binoculars are in the closed/stored position, lenses close together. You cannot view through them like this as they don't line up with your eyes. In a later scene, when Papa Boule is driving the train through an air raid, he uses the binoculars correctly in the open position.

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Quotes

Colonel von Waldheim: Beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it.

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Questions

Question: What happened to the binoculars Le Biche was holding on to?

Answer: This appears to be continuity or editing mistake where the binoculars suddenly disappear.

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