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.
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
Have been watching reruns of Highway Patrol on METV and there are many scenes of Southern Pacific Trains, both passenger and freight.
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.
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
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Penny Trains
Give ya one guess as to what the guy on the left is whistling!
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.
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
Unfortunately, Comcast moved TCM to a pay tier that I otherwise would never use, so I didn't go for the cheese.
It's a shame, because I had grown fond of those old movies, but I just refuse to be used in the way they are hoping.
54light15 He stole that picture, you have to admit
Isn't he the guy who always claimed that his parents encouraged him to run away from home?
I normally am not amused by personal insults, but when Tony Curtis referred to him as "ol' bucketmouth" I had to sympathize.
Convicted One Unfortunately, Comcast moved TCM to a pay tier that I otherwise would never use, so I didn't go for the cheese. It's a shame, because I had grown fond of those old movies, but I just refuse to be used in the way they are hoping.
Don't you just hate that?
There were a number of channels that came with our initial cable package, outdoor sports channels, channels like "Speedvison", well you get the picture.
They bumped 'em up to the "Premium" level and we said "No thanks!" Doesn't kill me not to have 'em anymore.
I know what you mean about the cable prices.
My TV is basically tuned to three channels: Turner Classic Movies, HGTV, and DIY.
I'm willing to check into streaming Turner if it is moved to a high pay tier.
Flintlock76They bumped 'em up to the "Premium" level and we said "No thanks!" Doesn't kill me not to have 'em anymore
It was a very unpopular decision at the time they made the change. There was considerable out cry, and as I recall ....Comcast's official line was that they were making the change to avoid having to raise everyones cable bill".
SO, they (claim) they are actually saving us money by taking away from us what used to be included in the base package.
I can't imagine a lot of people who didn't already have that premium tier, actually going out and subscribing to it just to follow TCM.
So, I almost wonder if there might be bad blood between Comcast and TCM? Perhaps TCM tried to renegotiate it's "per viewer" fee, and Comcast is saying "okay, but we're going to make you regret it"?
Just speculating, but it is a plausible scenario, which otherwise makes little sense. They put it into a pre-existing sports tier.
I cut the cable years ago- there wasn't anything on that I wanted to watch and the price went way, way up for the few channels I was interested in so that was the end. There is an excellent video rental store downtown where I would rent a week's worth at a time. I hope to hell they survive- just about every other video store is long gone.
I go into "cable protest" mode periodically, I cut the cord from 1993 to 2002, felt great about it, but bought a HDTV in 2002 so I got cable to support the set's capability. And then cut the cord again in 2007 until 2017.
Now mostly I use Comcast for the internet access, and bundling their cable base package to that seems to be cheaper than adding anyone elses base package.
At the very core, it's absurd to have to pay anything, considering the commercial load we are force fed. 7-10 minutes out of every half hour for commercials?
Yeah, another reason to cut the cable. Turner Classics is great but I'd just as soon be in control of what I'm watching so I can get up and get a beer or go to the can without missing anything. There is a channel here, Telelatino that does show old movies but with a break every half hour which is sure better than AMC with commercials every ten minutes.
There is a bar up the street that shows Turner classics on a TV above the bar with subtitiles which I find a pretty good thing. I hope they survive, they make excellent BLTs.
You know what we call Turner Classic Movies here at the "Fortress Flintlock?"
"Uncle Ted's Movie Morgue."
Think about it. There's almost no-one left alive from any of those classic movies!
Hey, how about "Danger Lights?" The actors are all dead, the steam engines are all dead, the Milwaukee Road's dead, even a lot of the locations are dead and gone! It's a "Cinematic Mausoleum!"
Convicted One- Remember in Some Like it Hot, the bell boy called him satchelmouth? I have seen a western with him in it and as I recall someone said, "I'm gonna cut his throat!" the other guy said, "somebody beat ya to it." His last film was It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
There are a number of old classics that I likely never would have seen, if not for TCM.
Born Yesterday, The Killing, Nightmare Alley, Thieves Highway, Pickup on South Street.....all of those movies I considered well above average, and was in disbelief that I had never heard of them before.
And despite hearing about them all my life I never saw the Grapes of Wrath or Of Mice and Men before TCM made it easy. I think "I am a Fugitive from a Chaingang" falls into that category as well.
Convicted OneThere are a number of old classics that I likely never would have seen, if not for TCM.
You and me, both!
I was never interested in old movies until I met my wife. She dragged me to a New Orleans movie theater that, once a week, showed a double feature of old classic movies.
The first night, we saw Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion" and "Notorious".
I was hooked.
Years later, when we finally got cable, there was AMC, which at that time showed old movies. Then TCM came along.
What amazes me is the excellent writing in some of those old movies. In many cases, it was better writing than you find in most modern movies.
Better writing in old movies? You're not kidding!
There haven't been too many releases in the past ten years that I've even thought about seeing. The last movie I went to was "1917," which actually was excellent.
(As a WW1 buff there's some things I could pick at, but no matter.)
Before that it was the documentary "They Shall Not Grow Old," which was outstanding!
But all in all, I'd rather watch the classics.
"Pickup on South Street" is an excellent film; there's a scene on a subway car where a soldier has a number one on his shoulder patch from the First Infantry Division, the director Sam Fuller's old outfit. One of his last films was "The Big Red One." Watch "The Steel Helmet" about the Korean war with Gene Evans. If that's not the precursor to "Night of the Living Dead," I don't know what is. George Romero lived in Toronto the last few years before he died and there are or were comic-cons at the convention centre. He made several appearances there and I always wished I had gone so I could ask him about that.
I just watched "Out of the Past" with Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer. That is as classic a film noir as was ever made. Mitchum made it look easy.
I've loved old movies ever since my mother dragged us to see Keaton's "The General" when I was about 10 years old. A silent movie? What a crazy idea! Mom grew up in a movie theatre. Every Saturday every kid in Bensonhurst was in the movies with cartoons, shorts, newsreels, B feature, A feature and then they could watch it all over again until the parents dragged them home to have dinner. Cheap daycare, even in the 1930s.
"Grapes of Wrath" to me is the last western. Grandma and Grandpa came west in a covered wagon, now they have to leave in an automobile. Everyone had to leave- it was ethnic cleansing, similar to the pogroms in eastern Europe, the clearances in Scotland, the famine in Ireland. In each and every case, the people being moved out ended up much better off then they were had they stayed put.
54light15His last film was It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Speaking of that movie....there was a chase scene where they are racing down a road that follows the coast. To the side of the road opposite the ocean is a cliff, maybe 20-30 feet high.
they pass under a pedestrian bridge that spans from the top of the cliff to a stairway on the ocean side of the road. Basically "beach access" is what comes to mind when looking at it.
I've racked my brain and beaten up google satellite pretty bad trying to find that location, to no avail.
Have you any idea where that location is? I suspect it was not shot anywhere near the location of the town where they end up at the conclusion of the chase. I think it was shot north of Los Angeles somewhere, and then spliced into the move timeline via editorial creativity.
To make matters worse, immediately after they pass under the bridge (heading north, ostensibly) there is a break in the cliff with an intersecting road that they turn on and double back headed southeasterly, in sort of a slow climb of the cliff.
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"Trains in old movies that aren't necessarily train movies..."
Oh man, HOW could I forget THIS classic?
Mind you, I have a hard time thinking of this as an old movie, but jeez, I saw it when it came out in 1970! That's 50 years ago! Where'd the time go?
Not gonna tell you what it is, it's going to be a surprise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC4lVoCFZvk
'54, remember all those old classics Channel 5 (WNEW) used to show Sunday afternoons back in the 60's?
Convicted One- I watched the movie a few years ago with a guy who knew the area well. He said it was south of L.A. but now I don't recall just where. Flintlock - I forgot just how good that movie is. I wonder if that's a narrow-gauge railway- note the small electric locomotives. And Donald Sutherland is still around, unlike the people you mention on TMC.
"The friends of Eddie Coyle" has a few neat scenes at a MA commuter station. A PC Turbo Train screams by, and the bad guy smashes into things in a 71 Roadrunner. Since I love both muscle cars and trains, this is a great scene, and not a bad gangster movie!
Flintlock- I sure do remember those Sunday channel 5 movies and the daily 4:30 movie on what, channel 9? I must have seen "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?" about a dozen times after I got home from school.
"The Friends of Eddie Coyle" I think has Mitchum's best performance, not that he ever gave a bad one. The book is excellent too as are the other books by the author, George V. Higgins.
In your movie, Flintlock where the tanks come straight out of the tunnel the tracks look to be broad-gauge and off to the right where the electrics are, it looks like narrow gauge. I wonder where it was filmed- I assume Spain.
54light15I just watched "Out of the Past" with Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer. That is as classic a film noir as was ever made. Mitchum made it look easy.
Great movie! I loved the place that Kirk Douglas had at Lake Tahoe.
Jane Greer played one of the most diabolical women in that movie.
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