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Posted by York1 on Thursday, December 3, 2020 2:05 PM

Right now I'm watching the original Godzilla on Turner Classic Movies.  Godzilla just wrecked a Japanese train and stood up with a passenger car in his mouth!  Call out the military!

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Posted by vsmith on Thursday, December 3, 2020 1:52 PM
Just recently rereleased on dvd/bluray "The Grey Fox" 1982 with Richard Farnsworth, lots of Canadian Pacific steam and mountain trains, and its a dang good movie!

   Have fun with your trains

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Posted by CMStPnP on Thursday, December 3, 2020 6:44 AM

One of the best train action movies of modern times, if you have not seen it yet, defintely worth the rental price.     Lone Ranger remake starring Johnny Depp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMZToxfIUAk

 

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Posted by 54light15 on Wednesday, December 2, 2020 9:38 AM

I loved when he shot the boom box. Funny how you don't see those anymore, not to change the subject. 

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Tuesday, December 1, 2020 4:34 PM

54light15
"Tough Guys" was kind of silly.

Well sure, it was a comedy, it's supposed to be silly.

Remember the over-the-hill nearsighted hit man played by Eli Wallach, who "Never left a job unfinished!" as a point of honor?

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Tuesday, December 1, 2020 3:40 PM

54light15
"Tough Guys" was kind of silly.

   What adventure movie isn't?

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Posted by 54light15 on Tuesday, December 1, 2020 8:56 AM

"Tough Guys" was kind of silly. Remember how they were headed to the Mexican border where the tracks end in the middle of nowhere? That made no sense. But, that is Doyle McCormack in the cab. I recall reading how Burt Lancaster knew his way around due to his work in "The Train." 

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Monday, November 30, 2020 9:46 PM

   I don't know if this movie is old enough to qualify under this heading, but back in the 1980's I enjoyed "Tough Guys".   Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas were released from prison after serving long sentences for train robbery and had a hard time adjusting to modern life.  They wound up hijacking 4449.

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Posted by 54light15 on Friday, November 13, 2020 6:14 PM

I remember when Willie Sutton died. He had great respect for Mosler safes and the Mosler company had great respect for him. Imagine looking at a big bank vault and figuring out how to open it and then doing it. The guy was a pro! The Mosler company did what they could to defy him; he was the guy they had to try to defy. 

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Friday, November 13, 2020 4:15 PM

M636C
In the penultimate scene, Connery's character is asked "why did you do it?" and he answers "I wanted the money..."

I wonder if that was inspired by a quote from the famous American bank robber Willie Sutton.  When asked why he robbed banks, know what he said?

"Because that's where the money is!"

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Posted by M636C on Friday, November 13, 2020 2:57 PM

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Yet another post James Bond era Sean Connery rail epic is "The Great Train Robbery" a story of a robbery of gold from an early British boat train from London to Folkestone.

 

From a story by Michael Crichton.  Both are worthwhile.

 

 

I am surprised that there were two effectively simultaneous posts for the same movie from opposite sides of the world....

But I agree with the writing being good...

In the penultimate scene, Connery's character is asked "why did you do it?" and he answers "I wanted the money..."

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Posted by Overmod on Friday, November 13, 2020 9:38 AM

M636C
Yet another post James Bond era Sean Connery rail epic is "The Great Train Robbery" a story of a robbery of gold from an early British boat train from London to Folkestone.

From a story by Michael Crichton.  Both are worthwhile.

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Posted by 54light15 on Friday, November 13, 2020 9:21 AM

Speaking of train robbing, there is the British film, "Robbery" based on the Ronnie Biggs Great Train robbery of the early 60s, with Stanley Baker. 

 

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Posted by M636C on Friday, November 13, 2020 6:07 AM

Yet another post James Bond era Sean Connery rail epic is "The Great Train Robbery" a story of a robbery of gold from an early British boat train from London to Folkestone.

I'm watching it as I write, the program stating "To Be Advised" and nothing else was worth watching... 

The train scenes were filmed in Ireland, between Dublin and Cork, using a CIE J15 0-6-0 tender locomotive modified to look like an early outside framed locomotive and four wheel  passenger cars modified from modern freight vans.

An amusing story with excellent train coverage much from the air...

(I have some photos of Ireland to scan, too...)

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Posted by NorthBrit on Friday, November 13, 2020 5:58 AM

Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland in The First Great Train Robbery, released in the United States as The Great Train Robbery.    Based on the train robbery in 1855.    

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Posted by M636C on Thursday, November 12, 2020 8:18 PM

I have been scanning some photos from Kuala Lumpur in 1996 and I was reminded of another Sean Connery film "Entrapment" of 1999 with a plot based on the Millennium Bug and stealing money electronically.

The final scenes are on the KL "Star" system, an elevated electric railway (well, elevated in the city).

A good movie and the character is barely disnguishable from James Bond...

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Monday, November 9, 2020 8:47 AM

M636C
That's the scene where the villian posing as an MI5 agent reveals his identity by ordering red wine with his fish....

Mamma mia!  You never  order red wine with fish!  I learned that as a child, but then having an Italian background helped a bit.

Maybe  a rose' if your tastes incline that way, but that's as far as you go!

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Posted by M636C on Monday, November 9, 2020 3:54 AM

York1

James Bond.  Trains.

Great fun in Bond movie with Sean Connery, who died today, and the fight on the Orient Express in "From Russia With Love":

 

 

That's the scene where the villian posing as an MI5 agent reveals his identity by ordering red wine with his fish....

But some good scenes of steam hauled passenger trains in Turkey...

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Saturday, October 31, 2020 11:03 AM

pibroch  for Sir Sean Connery. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNxCs7g8_vs  

A fine life well lived and a lucky man indeed.  How many actors are fortunate enough to become icons due to the role they played?  The only James Bond.

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Posted by 54light15 on Saturday, October 31, 2020 10:48 AM

Thanks Sean, for all the great movies. 

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Posted by York1 on Saturday, October 31, 2020 10:16 AM

James Bond.  Trains.

Great fun in Bond movie with Sean Connery, who died today, and the fight on the Orient Express in "From Russia With Love":

 

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 3:47 PM

I don't know.  Maybe Daniel Craig was the closest to the "Hard man who has to deal with other hard men, and thank God he's one of the good guys!" ideal but to me DC looked like he was weaned on a pickle.  Maybe that's what made him so hard?

Connery, on the other hand, had the appeal of a very charming man with a great sense of humor who could turn ice-cold and ruthless in a flash, kind of what you'd think Bond would be like considering the circles he had to move in.

You know what I think a real secret agent should look like?  Remember Steven Hill from the "Mission Impossible" TV series?  Good actor, but someone who you wouldn't look at twice and would blend into a crowd easily.  THAT'S what a secret agent would look like!

You know, I think just for fun this weekend I might go play George Carlin's game of "Find The Spy At The Airport!"  As George said:

"You KNOW there's a spy at the airport!  Your job, FIND HIM!"  

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Posted by 54light15 on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 3:13 PM

The last one I saw was Quantum of Solace- it had the train in the Balkans, the Aston Martin and the thing that got everyone in the theatre was when the iconic Bond theme played at about 20 minutes into the film. I could feel that everyone had the same thought- "Now it's a Bond film!" 

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Posted by York1 on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 2:04 PM

charlie hebdo
Agreed.  The Craig films were designed to be more realistic.  The Connery films were more about fun. 

And while some love the more realistic Bond, I'm in the camp that misses the enjoyment of going to the theater to see a "fun" James Bond movie.  The last several Bond movies have been disturbing for me, not fun.

To each his own.

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 1:56 PM

CSSHEGEWISCH

I would argue that Daniel Craig comes closer to playing 007 as Fleming wrote the character: hardbitten, cynical and totally loyal to M.

 

Agreed.  The Craig films were designed to be more realistic.  The Connery films were more about fun. 

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 1:51 PM

I would argue that Daniel Craig comes closer to playing 007 as Fleming wrote the character: hardbitten, cynical and totally loyal to M.

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Posted by 54light15 on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 1:48 PM

I think we can all agree that "From Russia With Love" well fits the criteria of this thread! That movie is what first turned me on to European railways which I've been into ever since. Sean was the man. Ian Fleming was seconded to the Army staff college here in Toronto during the 2nd world war as part of Camp X in Bowmanville. The college was located on Avenue Road in what used to be the North end of the city and now considered to be midtown. Across the street was a church (now a condo) called St. James-Bond United Church. I understand that he named him after a friend but still. 

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 1:16 PM

54light15

I've read somewhere how Cary Grant in North By Northwest was the model for Sean in the Bond films. Makes sense to me. 

 

Maybe, but I'm not so sure.  From what I've read Ian Fleming's idea for James Bond was a proper English gentleman and Fleming didn't like the idea of Sean Connery as Bond at all, thought he was too Scottish "working class."

Until he saw the first rushes, then he agreed wholeheartedly, Sean was the right choice after all.  And anyone who remembers Sean Connery as Bond would agree as well, Sean WAS James Bond!  All who came after were just not the same, although some were better than others.

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 1:16 PM

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  Running down the platform like Olympic sprinters, and you just know there's nothing in those prop suitcases!  

   Wandering off the topic here, but that reminds me of scenes where someone in the military comes home with a duffle bag that must be filled with something like crumpled up newspapers the way he tosses it around.

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Posted by 54light15 on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:31 PM

I've read somewhere how Cary Grant in North By Northwest was the model for Sean in the Bond films. Makes sense to me. 

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