Flintlock76 No! I'm ashamed of myself, that's one of the few (very few) TV shoes I watch and enjoy. How could I miss that? I'm going to pay stricter attention from now on, trust me.
No! I'm ashamed of myself, that's one of the few (very few) TV shoes I watch and enjoy. How could I miss that?
I'm going to pay stricter attention from now on, trust me.
At one point someone asked Gibbs what Ducky looked like when he was younger. His answer:
"Illya Kuryakin"
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Flintlock76No! I'm ashamed of myself, that's one of the few (very few) TV shoes I watch and enjoy.
I had not realized that technology had moved along so dramatically, and so well, since the days of Maxwell Smart!
Now, I do remember the first day the Japanese showed a wrist-TV receiver, a thing that itself was a 'creeping-featurism' amazing future technology from the Dick Tracy strip (improved from "2-way wrist radio" on the police bands). But screens on the footgear... what a concept!
Why didn't I think of it? -- don't worry, Bob, you will...
No! I'm ashamed of myself, that's one of the few (very few) TV shows I watch and enjoy. How could I miss that?
Speaking of Mallard, has anybody else noted the model of Mallard in the morgue in the series "NCIS"? It's located over Dr. Mallard's (played by David McCallum) desk.
A couple of additional movies I've watched during the lockdown:
The post WWII "Thirty Nine Steps" with Kenneth More.... The trip to Scotland on a train hauled by a Gresley A4, which proceeds north also behind 60022 Mallard (in the scene leaving Edinburgh Waverley) and of course on the scenes on the Forth Bridge (with pretty realistic passing scenes with Peppercorn Pacifics, and good scenes of More climbing on the bridge with car ferries passing below). This is available in full and in colour on Youtube.
I'm about to watch "Number Seventeen" a B&W Hitchcock mystery with a number of scenes using a Gresley Pacific on a freight train to a train ferry port, with some good night scenes of the real train combined with the usual model shots.
Peter
That's funny- I was in a bar in Buffalo- Cole's to be exact and it was playing in the background. I said to a guy, "You Americans have the coolest national anthem." He listened and then cracked up laughing.
Another thing- I just watched "After The Thin Man" and it's a sequel to the original film from 1934 and takes up where the original left off. There are exterior shots of the train that Nick and Nora Charles are riding (stock footage I am sure) in and it's got double headed steam locomotives. I have never seen double headed engines on a movie train before. I can't quite make out the railroad name on the tenders, but it is fairly dark in the shots. Later on there is a train with a Vanderbilt tender pulling a passenger train arriving in San Francisco- that was the S.P, right? Were there others that used that type of tender?
Nice find Penny! Funny , good post.
Well in the late 60's, it might as well have been!
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
No good on "Hawaii 5-0," but here's the Danes doing "Once Upon A Time In The West," an eight-and-one-half minute suite no less!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efdswXXjnBA
For "Hawaii Five-O" I'm just going to have to call up Steve McGarrett and the crew.
"Book 'im, Danno!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepyGm9Me6w
How about "Once upon a time in the West"?
That Star Trek theme was amazing! thanks so much for posting that. Now to look for the theme to GB & U. Do you suppose they've ever done the theme to Hawaii Five-0?
I have! And they make a fine job of it too!
Have you heard them do the "Star Trek Themes" medley? Just wonderful!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfwiy9JQ-PI
Flintlock76Flintlock76 wrote the following post 4 days ago: Well I saw it just fine! That trailer's a little different from the one I remember. Pretty close, but I remember a line that went: "The 'Good' kill because they have to. The 'Bad' kill, because they want to. The 'Ugly' kill, because THEY LIKE TO!" Maybe it was from a radio commercial, it has been a while. Great Western, that's for sure!
BTW (and off topic), but have any of you watched the you tube video of the Danish National Symphony and and Danish National Concert Choir doing a live performance of the Ennio Morricone music from this movie?
York1 -- thank you for the tip... switched over and DVD'd it .. just finished watching. Seen it before but a long long time ago.
Luv Film Noir, watch Eddie Muller's presentation every Sat. night.
See ya in the shadows!
TCM is just about to start the great movie, "Double Indemnity".
Trains? The whole plot involves a dead body and jumping off the rear platform of a moving train.
Film noir at it's best.
York1 John
I asked my doctor if I gave up delicious food and all alcohol, would I live longer? He said, "No, but it will seem longer."
54light15 Remember the immortal line, "When legend becomes fact, print the legend."
"Bury your memories, bury your friends
Leave it alone for a year or two
'Til the stories grow hazy and the legends come true
Then do it again. Some things never end..."
Lee Van Cleef was the living embodiment of a cobra. What a guy!
Another that features a train as a key part of the plot is one of the best westerns ever made, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." Remember the immortal line, "When legend becomes fact, print the legend."
Penny Trains 54light15 I always thought that in the GB & U, that the "Ugly" referred to Eli Wallach and not Lee Van Cleef. It did. That trailer is an early version before they realized who the B and U ought to be.
54light15 I always thought that in the GB & U, that the "Ugly" referred to Eli Wallach and not Lee Van Cleef.
It did. That trailer is an early version before they realized who the B and U ought to be.
Well sure, because Lee van Cleef's character killed because he liked to!
Leo_AmesMy cable box essentially never leaves Turner Classic Movies. I would watch MeTV if I didn't already own everything of interest
You and me both.
I would be completely happy with a cable system that offered four channels -- TCM, MeTV, HGTV, & DIY.
Overmod M636C Last night I watched a TV version of Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington I never think of this without in the next moment recalling Neville Shunt.
M636C Last night I watched a TV version of Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington
I never think of this without in the next moment recalling Neville Shunt.
Johnny
M636CLast night I watched a TV version of Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington
Last night I watched a TV version of Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington, which is not really a "train movie" although the plot is dependent on the particular features of British trains which allow one person to see an event in another similar train.
The version I saw was later than the one I have linked but the critical early scenes are very similar and probably reflect the original book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esw1FreaFbE
The B&W movie with Margaret Rutherford is, however my favourite.
The trains shown in this clip are convincingly Great Western at least, thanks to Britain's heritage railways, which are having a hard time right now.
My cable box essentially never leaves Turner Classic Movies.
I would watch MeTV if I didn't already own everything of interest that they air on DVD or Blu-Ray. I'd much rather just put in a disc for something like Green Acres and watch it uncut and commercial free.
The goodbye scene in Since You Went Away is a classic. And while I can't remember any specific examples off the top of my head, it's been often imitated. One of my favorite movies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLV_WK_z1t0
The train scene at the end of The Trouble With Angels is another good one. Was so pleased when Sony finally brought this Columbia classic out on Blu-Ray a year ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM7-J7XH6tc
I haven't seen the film but there's a better than good possibility the car interiors are part of a set and not a real railcar, so trying to get what kind of car it is might do you no good.
There's not a lot of external views but what I could see, they were heavyweights. The seats came out from the wall, benches like in a school bus. Flipover seats? But you really could not get a clear view due to all the people in the scene.
54light15 A friend lent me a Thin Man movie collection. The one I watched last night, "The Thin Man Goes Home" from 1944 shows Nick and Nora travelling by train. The train was packed to the rafters with people. 3 people in seats made for two, the aisle of a a sleeping car jammed with people standing. Is that what wartime train travel was like?
A friend lent me a Thin Man movie collection. The one I watched last night, "The Thin Man Goes Home" from 1944 shows Nick and Nora travelling by train. The train was packed to the rafters with people. 3 people in seats made for two, the aisle of a a sleeping car jammed with people standing. Is that what wartime train travel was like?
How old was the coach Nick and Nora were on? Did it have reclining seats, or did the seat backs extend from the outside wall to the aisle?
54light15The one I watched last night, "The Thin Man Goes Home" from 1944 shows Nick and Nora travelling by train.
That's a good one, with Nora trying to smuggle Asta in the coach car.
I don't know how accurate that was. I've got to believe that while trains were crowded, the movie exagerated it a little. I could be wrong.
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