If you have Turner Classic Movie channel on your cable system, and you haven't seen The Narrow Margin, it's on at 8:45 a.m. Central time, about 15 minutes from now. Later today, Strangers on a Train is on, too.
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."
Dammit- I can't see whatever was posted above.
Joe E. Brown must have done OK in the movies. I was at a car show in Michigan and there was a car there that he used to own and it was in mint condition; a 1930 Duesenberg Model J touring car. That was the very top of the line back then. He stole that picture, you have to admit and Nehemiah Persoff gave the very best imitation of Benito Mussolini that I've ever seen.
Penny Trains
Give ya one guess as to what the guy on the left is whistling!
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
54light15 I'm surprised that no one's mentioned it. "Some Like it Hot.
LOL, when I was growing up there was a friend of the family that was a dead ringer for Joe E Brown, same personality...used to scare me when he would come to visit
Here's a movie that features a train. Funniest picture I've ever seen and a superb cast. I'm surprised that no one's mentioned it. "Some Like it Hot." I understand that the Pullman car used in the movie still exists in a museum in Tennesse.
Have been watching reruns of Highway Patrol on METV and there are many scenes of Southern Pacific Trains, both passenger and freight.
Miningman Train scene in Leave Her to Heaven So which Railroad looks like the Northern Pacific but is in New Mexico? https://youtu.be/-r3ZotQacms
Train scene in Leave Her to Heaven
So which Railroad looks like the Northern Pacific but is in New Mexico?
https://youtu.be/-r3ZotQacms
I don't think there ever was a railroad...
The observation car interior is almost certainly a movie set.
All we see of the train in the exterior (New Mexico) location is two standard Pullmans converted to streamline appearance and apparently painted two tone blue, with no obvious lettering for the railroad or car name or number.
These two cars could have been in storage and repainted for the movie.
Peter
York1-- Yeah that's a dandy alright. It would be perfecty suitable if it just came out now!
" sometimes the truth is wicked"
It sure has the Northern Pacific colours in that observation tail car.
The filming and sets are superb.
MiningmanTrain scene in Leave Her to Heaven
Leave Her to Heaven! What a movie. What a woman.
I love the houses, from New Mexico to Back of the Moon to the Atlantic Coast in Maine.
"There's nothing wrong with Ellen. It's just that she loves too much."
Paul MilenkovicI have only one thing to say about that video. Loading gauge.
Loading gauge.
What, no comment about the outside Stephenson gear?
I have only one thing to say about that video.
If GM "killed the electric car", what am I doing standing next to an EV-1, a half a block from the WSOR tracks?
The Ladykillers- excellent choice. A lot of people didn't like the Coen Brothers version but I thought it was pretty decent. The original is set in the part of London just North of King's Cross station in a part of town called Copenhagen Fields. They're not really tunnels but are bridge underpasses. I was in London and tried to find the exact location of Mrs. Wilberforce's house but those were done in a studio. I've been to Lavender Hill too, another favourite of mine.
Another of the classic British comedies, "The Ladykillers" was run yesterday here. It is in colour, a change from most of these early post WWII movies.
A group of thieves rob an armoured car and end up with the money in a house beside the railway tracks. They kill eachother off as individuals try to escape from the group with the money.
One by one the bodies are dropped into empty coal wagons from a tunnel mouth. The sound effects include a realistic thump as the bodies (concealed by locomotive steam) fall into the open steel wagons.
The little old lady who was conned into helping the gang is unable to convince the police she has the money, so she keeps it...
But there are a number of scenes with the trains in the background as well as the disposal of bodies shots.
One thing about Skyfall, it had an Aston Martin DB5 and a long train ride in the Balkans and the thing that was cool was that the iconic theme music that we all know from the beginning of every other film didn't happen until about 20 minutes in and I felt like the entire theatre thought, "Yeah, now it's a real James Bond film!"
The favorite Bond is personal preference. My wife liked Connery, I liked Moore.
While Craig may be what Fleming had in mind, I really don't care for the last several Bond movies.
Bond movies used to be adventurous fun. However, the Craig and some of the Brosnan films are much more serious and dark. For me, they're not fun to watch anymore.
Personal preference.
Ian Fleming was seconded to Camp X in Bowmanville, Ontario during the war. He also worked at the old army staff college on Avenue Road in Toronto just North of Eglnton Avenue. He had said that he named Bond after a friend of his who was an avid birdwatcher as I recall. But, just across Avenue Road was a church. The church (now a condo) was St. James-Bond United Church. It was a church until about 20 years ago and I sure recall the sign out in front.
Daniel Craig seemed like a total thug, but then I got that impression about Sean in Dr. No.
Daniel Craig is a cold and cynical Bond all right, but he also looks like he was weaned on a pickle!
Some interesting James Bond trivia. Ian Fleming wasn't happy with the casting of Sean Connery as Bond, Fleming thought Connery was too "Scottish blue-collar" looking while Fleming's Bond was supposed to be a proper British gentleman.
Until Fleming saw the first rushes. Then he agreed with Connery's casting wholeheartedly.
54light15 There is only one Bond and we all know who that is.
There is only one Bond and we all know who that is.
While I won't argue with your choice, I've observed that Daniel Craig plays James Bond pretty close to the way that Ian Fleming wrote him: cold and cynical.
I hope the porter had all the necessary berths made down before she stole it--or he was able to borrow another porter's tool.
Johnny
She even gives it back the next morning as I recall, telling the porter she found it.
DeggestyI have always wondered how Eva Marie Saint managed to get the porter's tool needed to open and close the upper berth. Aside from that, I thought the railroad part was well done.
I'm just watching North by Northwest right now. Eva Marie Saint just told Cary Grant that she stole the tool from the porter.
This afternoon I saw a movie "Train of Events", which appears to have been filmed in 1948 or so. It is based on an accident occurring to a train, the 15:45 Euston to Liverpool, hauled by rebuilt Royal Scot 46126, painted in the initial black lined red and cream, later adopted for mixed traffic classes. The tender was lettered "British Railways". The passenger cars were all still lettered for LMS.
The film outlines the activities of various passengers and the driver (jack Warner) in the days leading up to the accident. It concludes with the driver, who survives, being promoted to a desk job.
A lot of excellent period scenes, with all the featured locomotives in BR paint, but others in various stages of transition to Nationalisation.
Octopussy was filmed on the Nene Valley Railway in England. I've been there, it's about 9 miles long and there is a lot to see. But still, I'm not that crazy about the Bond films with Roger Moore. There is only one Bond and we all know who that is.
https://www.nvr.org.uk/
Another one is "Strangers On A Train" that is not really a train movie, but a train is the motivator of the plot. Some scenes were filmed at Danbury, Connecticut. The creepiest was the tennis game, with Robert Walker looking straight at Farley Granger while everyone else's heads were swinging back and forth. Eesh!
Earlier we talked about North by Northwest.
Turner Classic Movies is showing it on Friday afternoon. If you've never seen it, or like me, want to see it again, it's worth the time. A lot of classic movie scenes.
Convicted One "Hour of the Gun" with James Garner (1967) is fairly train intensive, also
"Hour of the Gun" with James Garner (1967) is fairly train intensive, also
A very good, very grim, and under-rated Western.
54light15An underground lair? Or a model of Fort Knox? Funny how he had that model made, then killed all the guys he showed it to. Well, he went to great expense and had to show it to somebody, right?
That's kinda my point I was getting at earlier. Hollywood tends to cook a certain recipe when presenting their perpetrators to us, depicting them as some malevolent being who gets up out of bed in the morning with their first thought being "Okay I'm the bad guy, so what rotten thing can I do today?"
I suspect that it has to do with the need to portray their demise as having a redeeming social value.
I think there was a line in the movie "True Lies" that explains rather nicely that there are no "good guys" or "bad guys"...... just differences in perspective.
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