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This topic has come up before, but it's still a good one. [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by lincoln5390 Anybody remember Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes?" He made it while he was still in the U.K. B&W from around 1939 I think. I think it's still available on VHS or DVD. [/quote] I love that movie! If I had to pick my top five favourite movies of all time, The Lady Vanishes would unquestionably be one of them! It was the success of this film that lead to Hitchcock being noticed by Hollywood and coming to the United States. If you like The Lady Vanishes, then I would recommend that you also check out the films Seven Sinners (1936), Night Train To Munich (1940) and Sleeping Car To Trieste (1948). Like The Lady Vanishes, all three are Briti***hrillers involing spies, international intrigue and trains that do great jobs of blending edge-of-your-seat suspense with laugh-out-loud comedy. Seven Sinners was written by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, the same people who wrote the script for The Lady Vanishes and features footage real-life of a train wreck. Night Train To Munich (directed by Carol Reed) was also written by Launder and Gilliat and features some of the cast of The Lady Vanishes, with Margatet Lockwood as the heroine and Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne reprising their previous roles of cricket-obsessed Charters and Caldicott. The male leads are Rex Harisson and Paul Henried. Sleeping Car To Trieste takes place on the Orient Express and was a remake of a 1933 film called Rome Express (which might be good also, but I haven't seen it yet). As far as other movies with trains in them, Silver Streak, Strangers on Train, Narrow Margin, The Train, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago and Tough Guys all come to mind, but they have all been mentioned, so I won't elaborate on them any further. On the subject of Hitchcock, who can forget North By Northwest (1959) and Shadow of a Doubt (1943) featuring the 20th Century Limited and an SP local? Hitchcock himself was something of a train buff. Almost half of his movies feature a train scene of some kind (even if very brief) or else train sound effects in the background. In Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), John Candy and Steve Martin take a ride on a "Contrack" train (in a sharp blue and orange paint scheme) pulled by a C420 that more than lives up to the reputation Alcos have of producing lots of smoke. For those that like 4-4-0's, there are Buster Keaton's The General (1927) and Disney's The Great Locomotive Chase (1956), both telling the story of the same event from very different perspectives. Both feature plenty of great train chase scenes. Von Ryan's Express (1964) has Frank Sinatra leading a group of POW's as they escape on a stolen train in Italy. Then there's Cecil B. DeMille's Union Pacific (1939) with Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea which centres around the building of the UP across the continent in 1869. The last spike ceremony at Promentory, Utah is even recreated in the film. Lucius Beebe was a technical advisor for this movie. All of the above of great movies in my opinion. As for bad movies with trains, Atomic Train instantly comes to mind (no offense to those who say they enjoyed it, though, to each his own). Another bad train movie is Under Seige 2: Dark Territory with Steven Seagal battling terrorists in control of a satellite that could destroy the world on a cross-country luxury train. To the film's credit, the train itself is actually very attractive with a nice paint scheme.
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