steemtrayn R. T. POTEET . . . . . . . . . . and who can forget the great Michel Simon as Papa Boule; the sequence where he kicks Burt Lancaster out of the cab of his train--"Get off of my train"--has to be one of the best sequences in any movie since Alec Guinness falling across the plunger in Bridge over the River Kwai. ...And then Burt yells "you can't get through...The switch is closed.' Amazing...The whole yard is being blown to bits, and he's worried about the train running through a trailing-point.
R. T. POTEET . . . . . . . . . . and who can forget the great Michel Simon as Papa Boule; the sequence where he kicks Burt Lancaster out of the cab of his train--"Get off of my train"--has to be one of the best sequences in any movie since Alec Guinness falling across the plunger in Bridge over the River Kwai.
. . . . . . . . . . and who can forget the great Michel Simon as Papa Boule; the sequence where he kicks Burt Lancaster out of the cab of his train--"Get off of my train"--has to be one of the best sequences in any movie since Alec Guinness falling across the plunger in Bridge over the River Kwai.
...And then Burt yells "you can't get through...The switch is closed.' Amazing...The whole yard is being blown to bits, and he's worried about the train running through a trailing-point.
Remember, Lancaster is trying to get Papa Boule to stop the train and seek shelter . . . . . . . . . . and then Papa Boule yells back "Well open the switch!" which is promptly done and the train snakes its way through the 9th Army Air Force bombardment.
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Another good movie with a train is "October Sky". It has the Southern 4501 in it.
BTW: It is on AMC once in a while.
Luke
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Blazeman Many years back, before AMC ran ads, they showed a movie from the 30's that featured brakemen and their families. Of course, the footage of vintage equipment shot with superior cameras and by cameramen is outstanding. Climax has to do with a flood wherein the star takes a train out to spot in on the bridge to attempt to weigh it down. It doesn't seem to work in real life nor did it work in the movie. Cannot recall the name of the movie to save my life. Only saw it that one time.
Many years back, before AMC ran ads, they showed a movie from the 30's that featured brakemen and their families. Of course, the footage of vintage equipment shot with superior cameras and by cameramen is outstanding.
Climax has to do with a flood wherein the star takes a train out to spot in on the bridge to attempt to weigh it down. It doesn't seem to work in real life nor did it work in the movie.
Cannot recall the name of the movie to save my life. Only saw it that one time.
You may be thinking of the movie TYCOON with John Wayne. That bridge climax is in that film and it's pretty spectacular.
Tom
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You are correct, sir.
What about ''North By Northwest'' ?
Alfred Hichcock classic featuring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. And a NYC passenger train from New York to Chicago.
N Scale Diesels......I like 'em
igoldberg my favorite is :The Train" with Burt Lancaster. He did all of his own stunts in the movie. All in of them done 1 take. No repeats necessary.
my favorite is :The Train" with Burt Lancaster. He did all of his own stunts in the movie. All in of them done 1 take. No repeats necessary.
During the filming, he hurt his leg (sprained an ankle or something like that), so they wrote in the scene where he gets shot in the leg. That limp at the end was authentic. Lancaster always did his own stunts in all his movies. Before he became an actor, he was an acrobat in the circus.
Dick
Texas Chief
Heres one no one has mentioned yet so i will give it a couple of votes is the movie "The Station Agent" it has model trains, real trains, a real station, and a very good story line in it, it's kind of one of those quiet little movies, maybe not for every one but my wife and i enjoyed it so there you go!
Chuck & Heather
Dave
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Lots of good ones. Von Ryan's Express was on in the middle of the night a couple of weeks ago when I couldn't sleep, so I saw it again.
Just watched Hancock tonight. One scene involves a train--kinda funny.
Can't forget the John Wayne movies "Tycoon" with Laraine Day building a railroad through the Andes filmed in 1947 and of course "The Train Robbers" with Ann-Margret. What could be better, John Wayne and Ann-Margret together on the same film made in 1972..
130MM Great movie, but a scene towards the end has always bugged me. Burt decides to unbolt a rail, but does it about 15 rails outside of a tunnel; which allows the German chase train to stop before the gap. Of he had just moved a few rails into the tunnel things would have worked out better. I know, I know...it would mess up the plot. Still bugs me, though. DAW
Great movie, but a scene towards the end has always bugged me. Burt decides to unbolt a rail, but does it about 15 rails outside of a tunnel; which allows the German chase train to stop before the gap. Of he had just moved a few rails into the tunnel things would have worked out better.
I know, I know...it would mess up the plot.
Still bugs me, though.
DAW
I think you're thinking Von Ryan's Express.
Kevin
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A newer one for me. "Leatherheads" lots of great shots of old C&NW equipment.
Good story to boot. Geo. Clooney and Rene Z. a great combination.. Railroading and football, It doesn't get much better than this.
Johnboy out.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
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Hi again,
I posted a message early on here, but have to post again.......
I've seen and even have DVDs of most all the movies mentioned and they all had their highpoints.
Danger Train, Silver Streak, Emperor of the North, and several others are top on my list. But there is one that we watch every Christmas season (since it came out) that is totally enjoyable for this cynical, sarcastic, realist 64 year old so and so - and that is "Polar Express". Even though it is super animated, the enormity in size and power of the loco is made very real. And the sound effects are impressive too! Oh, my wife says I'm a double for the smart alec kid who "knows it all".........
One other note.... A very high percentage of movies we watch have a train in it at some point or another. That always makes a movie a bit more special to me.
ENJOY,
Mobilman44
ENJOY !
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
Emperor of the North Pole has some dramatic photography sequences but in essence is only of marginally better quality than Von Ryan's Express; both have plots that are borderline stupid!
So impressive is The Train that I can watch it over and over and over again; Paul Schofield's best role and surely one of Lancaster's most memorable ranking close up there with Elmer Gantry and Valdez Is Coming.
Since no one has mentioned either of these, I'll toss into the mix a couple of movies that are not about the trains but have great train "stuff":
1. "The Greatest Show on Earth" circa 1950 with some great up close circus train shots and an obviously fake , but really messy, train wreck. Lions and tigers and bears running around everywhere!
2. The absolutely must-not-miss movie for SP fans--"Bad Day at Black Rock" with Spencer Tracy. The train, in Black Widow paint opens the film at the credits--a screen full of cab and headlight at speed coming right at you across the desert in wide screen. Train only reappears at the end, but the movie in-between is pretty good. Credits are breath-taking.
Ahah, we're REVIVED!
Two I've seen since this thread was first started, and must go to the top of my list:
Rene Clair's remarkable LA BATTAILE DU RAIL about the French Resistance sabotaging German rail movements during WWII. Similar to THE TRAIN, but with a more 'documentary' feel. It also contains probably the most SPECTACULAR (real) train wreck ever photographed. It goes on FOREVER! Terrific film, available on DVD. PS: Some of the footage was filmed during the Occupation and inserted into the finished 1945 film. It won the "Palme d'Or" at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946. Extraordinary film.
DANGER LIGHTS. An early sound film made along the Milwaukee Road in Montana. The trains are the star of the film, and if the plot's a little creaky, it has some remarkable train footage of 1930's Milwaukee steam equipment. Really worth seeing at least once.
I'm partial to the Steven Segal flick (name escapes me at the moment) where he's a navy cook who's neice is kidnapped by terrorists on a train. They, of course, are using the train as a base from which to destroy the world with some sort of U.S. defense sattelite. He, of course, foils the bad guys, saves his neice and in the end, totally destroys the train
Jimmy
ROUTE ROCK!
gvdoblerKen Larsen That's the one I remember, but can't think of the name. Ben Johnson was the chase engineer. I've never seen the movie again on TV or video rentals. Jon - Las Vegas
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070615/
The best is "Atomic Train". It's even on youtube!! Also, "Emporer of the North" is good.
QUOTE: Originally posted by foamer13 What's your favorite? My personal choices are "The Emperor of the North Pole" with Lee Marvin as #1 hobo, battling Ernest Borgnine, bad-*** freght conductor, and "The Train", with Burt Lancaster,saving French art from the retreating ***.
QUOTE: Originally posted by cspmo QUOTE: Originally posted by KenLarsen I can't remember the title, but it was one of those made-for-TV movies (filmed in the early 1970's) about a special D&RGW 'ski excursion' train, pulled by a pair of GP30s, that loses its brakes during its return trip down the slopes. Can't even remember the entire plot (whether the brakes failed by accident or sabotage), but some helper units raced up behind the runaway train, coupled to it, and applied full reverse power - stopping the train just in the nick of time, naturally. (If I watched it today, 30 years later, I'd probably laugh thru the whole thing!) If somebody has seen this and knows the title, could you share it with us? Here is a link to info. of this movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070615/
QUOTE: Originally posted by KenLarsen I can't remember the title, but it was one of those made-for-TV movies (filmed in the early 1970's) about a special D&RGW 'ski excursion' train, pulled by a pair of GP30s, that loses its brakes during its return trip down the slopes. Can't even remember the entire plot (whether the brakes failed by accident or sabotage), but some helper units raced up behind the runaway train, coupled to it, and applied full reverse power - stopping the train just in the nick of time, naturally. (If I watched it today, 30 years later, I'd probably laugh thru the whole thing!) If somebody has seen this and knows the title, could you share it with us?