Enh, there's only one Fugitive and that's David Janssen. There were a few railroad scenes in the orignal show which I think was pretty damned good.
While we are all here, I thought I'd mention two old English movies which are train movies but since are both available in full on Youtube so could each provide around 90 minutes of distraction.
These are :
Rome Express (1932) and
The Lady Vanishes (1938) (directed by Hitchcock)
These two movies used some of the same sets and some footage was shared.
Rome Express had very extensive sets built, including a complete full size, if foreshortened train in the station in Paris. As well as the usual small models, a 1/12 scale model of a PLM Pacific was built by Bassett-Lowke which was used for close ups of the locomotive, including the valve gear, at speed.
I think the same interior sets were used for The Lady Vanishes, as was the exterior locomotive mock up from the station scene when the passengers take over the train to escape from the foreign conspirators.
But anyone with around three hours to spare could check out the two movies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlbKFIhE-JI
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x239ehl
It can't be worse than the TV news...
Peter
I remember a long time ago Borgnine being interviewed on his many roles and "Shack" was his favorite since it didn't take much to get "in-character". Also this clip seems so real in Techno-Color as compared to today's layering of CGI. Gee you think you were there with real-live action actors.
Ever hear of "Last Train From Gun Hill?"
There's "train" in the title, and some nice run-bys and station shots, but not a train movie. A great Western none the less, with an almost "Greek tragedy" storyline for both the male leads, Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn. Even though the viewer pretty much knows it's going to end badly for one of them it keeps you hoping that somehow it won't, right up to the movies end.
Here's the trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_qXQQZ2wHs
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" had a few trains in it. One of the mail car recreations wound up at the Ridgeway (Colorado) rail museum.
"Use enough dynamite there, Butch?" Classic!
Unstoppable, with Denzel Washington, is very entertaining. It has the best cinematography of trains that I've ever seen, and I don't mean the chase scenes. I mean lots of very evocative shots which really convey the essence of railroading, done by top Hollywood film crews. Just lots of great scenes.
The story is a good one, a based on a true runway train incident, and I find Washington to be a very engaging actor. Now, tbh, some of the action is super far-fetched, way over the top to the point of laughable.
Still, I thinI any railroader or railfan would thoroughly enjoy it.
Lithonia OperatorUnstoppable, with Denzel Washington, is very entertaining.
I'd have to agree. I recall following the original incident here. So after about the first 10 minutes of the movie I realized I was watching a dramatization based on the event I actually knew something about....making it all that much more enjoyable.
M636CThe Lady Vanishes (1938) (directed by Hitchcock)
Great! I had forgotten about that one.
Of course, we're talking about movies that are not "train movies" but have trains in them.
My favorite "train movie" still has to be "Silver Streak".
York1 John
Of course, there are the movies where trains play an essential part in the action, but not from an enthusiast's standpoint.
Like the Red Shoes, with Moira Shearer. Or Hannay's escape in the 39 Steps.
My mom and I both loved the scene from Brief Encounter when Celia Johnson's Laura comes in pathetically saying (and no one, not even Merle Oberon, could do that like Celia) she 'just wanted to see the express go through'...
The 39 Steps- oneof my favourites since I was a kid! It was a thrill to ride over the Forth Bridge 16 years ago. I had no idea it was painted red. The author of the story, John Buchan, as Lord Tweedsmuir became the governor general of Canada in 1935.
There's a British film done in the 30's called "Knight Without Armour," starring Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat. Set in Russia during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution it's got some railroad scenes in it with British locomotives remarkably dressed up to look like Russian ones. I can't find any YouTube clips of the rail scenes but when I saw the movie on TCM I was VERY impressed with the modifications on the locomotives.
from the Far East of the Sunset Route
(In the shadow of the Huey P Long bridge)
JC UPTONThen there are the several versions of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express"
The BEST one is from 1974, don't bother with the more current remake.
I agree with you, Wayne- Kenneth Branagh's mustache was ridiculous!
Flintlock76 JC UPTON Then there are the several versions of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" The BEST one is from 1974, don't bother with the more current remake.
JC UPTON Then there are the several versions of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express"
Johnny
And just how many versions of "Beau Geste" are out there??
CSSHEGEWISCH And just how many versions of "Beau Geste" are out there??
I don't know, but if there are any there's only one that matters!
Same with "The Four Feathers." Or "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
"The Four Feathers" was like Kipling's poem Fuzzy Wuzzy come to life! Remember the warriors with the "ayrick 'eads of 'air?" And Errol Flynn-he was one of a kind!
" 'Ere's to you Fuzzy-Wuzzy, in your 'ome in the Soodan,
You're a poor benighted 'eathan, but a first-class fightin' man!"
Good old Kipling! Ever read his poem "Brown Bess?"
Good ol' Errol Flynn! I can't imagine anyone else playing Robin Hood, the role and the actor found each other and became icons.
Kind of like Basil Rathbone as Sherlock, Chuck Heston as Ben-Hur, George C. Scott as Patton, I could go on and on.
Of course I know that if ever we English had reason to bless any arm save our mothers, that arm is Brown Bess. I have the complete verse of Rudyard Kipling sitting on my toilet tank as I write this. I agree also, no one can play those roles except for the guys that played those roles. That includes Clint as Harry Callahan and the Duke in any role he played.
54light15Of course I know that if ever we English had reason to bless any arm save our mothers, that arm is Brown Bess.
I never think of her without thinking of "The moon was a ghostly galleon, sailing on troubled seas"...
Overmod 54light15 Of course I know that if ever we English had reason to bless any arm save our mothers, that arm is Brown Bess. I never think of her without thinking of "The moon was a ghostly galleon, sailing on troubled seas"...
54light15 Of course I know that if ever we English had reason to bless any arm save our mothers, that arm is Brown Bess.
"The Highwayman." Chills run down my spine just thinking about it.
Seeing as it's the evening of April 14th...
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Like the Red Shoes, with Moira Shearer.
I recall seeing a shot of the Blue Train with a 141R running along the rocky cliffs overlooking the Mediterranean presumably shot from a helicopter, possibly on the troupe's arrival in Nice (or Monte Carlo, I forget).
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Speaking of movies that were remade, anyone yet mention "Narrow Margin"? Good movie using a passenger train as a plot device. 1952 and 1990 versions, the latter staring Gene Hackman.
Narrow Margin, now there was a great film with the incomparable Marie Windsor, the best Femme Fatale that was ever on screen! Not taking anything away from Barbara Stanwyck or Lana Turner, but I know what I like.
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