'The Hour of the Gun" from 1967 with James Garner, Jason Robards and Robert Ryan. A take on the OK corral. It features trains with steel, riveted passenger cars with knuckle couplers. I don't think any of those things existed in 1881. A pretty decent Western, filmed in Mexico.
54light15I don't think any of those things existed in 1881.
If we extend the discussion to not-so-old movies that essentially became old movies while we weren't looking, consider the remake of 1984 with William Hurt (be careful to see it with the original cinematography, not the recolorization). Part of this was the logical development of Britain had it reached the type of government in Eric Blair's book -- and the train scene is in my opinion a good example of how well that was portrayed in the picture.
Welded rail, Groomed ballast only regulator would love air brakes hoses and even some second air signaling hose, roller bearings..
I am right now watching a German TV production called, "Babylon Berlin" set in the Weimar republic of 1929 and with all that it implies. Lots of sleazy characters and lots of cigarettes are smoked. It is sort of similar in it's way to Boardwalk Empire and the British series, Peaky Blinders.
There is a fair bit of railroad action in it involving a tank car full of gold bars in a train full of phosgene gas! The train is pulled by a type 52 Kriegslok decapod which isn't correct but still, it's an excellent series and the set design is brilliant. An ongoing film noir, sort of. It just showed up on You Tube one day, I watched a five minute bit of it and thought, that's something I would like so I bought the whole series on Ebay. I highly recommend it.
"Inglorious Bastards" is an Italian war movie from 1978 with Bo Svenson and Fred Williamson. A train is transporting V2 warheads and blah, blah, blah, explosions. It's a "spaghetti war movie" and you know what that means. It's set in France using Italian locomotives and cars. The Germans die like flies!
This is a good one- "It Always Rains on Sunday," from the Ealing Studio in 1947. Life in London's East end, tiny apartments, smokey pubs, street markets, crooked businessmen with an escaped convict and so forth. Not a lot of train action until near the end with many scenes filmed aboard rolling freight cars in a hump yard. I've never seen a movie with hump yard scenes much less an English one with 4-wheel wooden cars. You also get one short glimpse of a London trolleybus.
Was watching an episode of Adam 12 on MeTV yesterday that was filmed in Griffith Park in LA during the late 60's or early 70's. The final scenes are centered around a Western Pacific steam engine with one of the bad guys being shot atop the tender of the locomotive and falls to the ground in the final action scene.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Just after Christmas I watched "The Assassination Bureau, LTD", a charming, though a bit dark, romcom set in 1914. A number of nice shots of inside and outside of European passenger trains.
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