Convicted One- yes, From Russia With Love well qualifies. All of the exterior train shots were done in England. Note in one scene how the train carriages all have doors down the side? That's Southern Railway equipment and not exactly the Orient Express. I've ridden on them once or twice but they have all been retired. I think the whole point of that movie is the fight on the train just like the whole point of Dr. No was Ursula Andress coming out of the water in that tan bikini. Yow!
And what's the point of being a bad guy if you can't have a cool hideout? An 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?
MiningmanSo why not just enjoy it all and cease being a bad guy?
Mostly, I don't think they see themselves as a "bad guy". They just have selfish priorities and an agenda for personal gain that places them (to their own view) above the rules that apply to the unwashed masses.
They likely see jail as a place where only stupid people go.
The Mastermind bad guys always have really cool places to live and apparently limitless money. So why not just enjoy it all and cease being a bad guy?
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.
One of my favorite movies.
Of course, you can't pay much attention to details like the porter's tool, or that movie would drive you crazy.
How did Vandamm ever build a house on top of Mt. Rushmore?
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."
Would the fight scenes between Robert Shaw and Sean Connery in Ian Flemming's "From Russia with Love" qualify here?
Wayne, you may have something there.
Many years ago, Greyhound buses had a crank (carried inside, by the door,) for opening the baggage bins. Once, when I rode from home with a driver who knew me, I reached in, took the crank, stowed my suitcase,, and put the crank back. When we came to the Charlotte station, I took my suitcase out before the station porter arrived.
Johnny
Deggesty saguaro One of my favorite old movies with a train is Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest." There are great scenes inside Grand Central Station, boarding the 20th Century Limited (with the red carpet rolled out), and then aboard the 20th Century Limited. Cary Grant and Eva St. Marie -- one of the best movies ever. I 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.
saguaro One of my favorite old movies with a train is Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest." There are great scenes inside Grand Central Station, boarding the 20th Century Limited (with the red carpet rolled out), and then aboard the 20th Century Limited. Cary Grant and Eva St. Marie -- one of the best movies ever.
One of my favorite old movies with a train is Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest." There are great scenes inside Grand Central Station, boarding the 20th Century Limited (with the red carpet rolled out), and then aboard the 20th Century Limited. Cary Grant and Eva St. Marie -- one of the best movies ever.
I 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.
Eva Marie Saint was such a hottie I don't think anyone could have refused her anything, up to and including porter's tools.
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Narrow Margin, now there was a great film with the incomparable Marie Windsor, the best Femme Fatale that was ever on screen! Not taking anything away from Barbara Stanwyck or Lana Turner, but I know what I like.
Speaking of movies that were remade, anyone yet mention "Narrow Margin"? Good movie using a passenger train as a plot device. 1952 and 1990 versions, the latter staring Gene Hackman.
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Like the Red Shoes, with Moira Shearer.
I recall seeing a shot of the Blue Train with a 141R running along the rocky cliffs overlooking the Mediterranean presumably shot from a helicopter, possibly on the troupe's arrival in Nice (or Monte Carlo, I forget).
Peter
Seeing as it's the evening of April 14th...
Overmod 54light15 Of course I know that if ever we English had reason to bless any arm save our mothers, that arm is Brown Bess. I never think of her without thinking of "The moon was a ghostly galleon, sailing on troubled seas"...
54light15 Of course I know that if ever we English had reason to bless any arm save our mothers, that arm is Brown Bess.
I never think of her without thinking of "The moon was a ghostly galleon, sailing on troubled seas"...
"The Highwayman." Chills run down my spine just thinking about it.
54light15Of course I know that if ever we English had reason to bless any arm save our mothers, that arm is Brown Bess.
Of course I know that if ever we English had reason to bless any arm save our mothers, that arm is Brown Bess. I have the complete verse of Rudyard Kipling sitting on my toilet tank as I write this. I agree also, no one can play those roles except for the guys that played those roles. That includes Clint as Harry Callahan and the Duke in any role he played.
" 'Ere's to you Fuzzy-Wuzzy, in your 'ome in the Soodan,
You're a poor benighted 'eathan, but a first-class fightin' man!"
Good old Kipling! Ever read his poem "Brown Bess?"
Good ol' Errol Flynn! I can't imagine anyone else playing Robin Hood, the role and the actor found each other and became icons.
Kind of like Basil Rathbone as Sherlock, Chuck Heston as Ben-Hur, George C. Scott as Patton, I could go on and on.
"The Four Feathers" was like Kipling's poem Fuzzy Wuzzy come to life! Remember the warriors with the "ayrick 'eads of 'air?" And Errol Flynn-he was one of a kind!
CSSHEGEWISCH And just how many versions of "Beau Geste" are out there??
And just how many versions of "Beau Geste" are out there??
I don't know, but if there are any there's only one that matters!
Same with "The Four Feathers." Or "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
Flintlock76 JC UPTON Then there are the several versions of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" The BEST one is from 1974, don't bother with the more current remake.
JC UPTON Then there are the several versions of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express"
The BEST one is from 1974, don't bother with the more current remake.
I agree with you, Wayne- Kenneth Branagh's mustache was ridiculous!
JC UPTONThen there are the several versions of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express"
from the Far East of the Sunset Route
(In the shadow of the Huey P Long bridge)
There's a British film done in the 30's called "Knight Without Armour," starring Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat. Set in Russia during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution it's got some railroad scenes in it with British locomotives remarkably dressed up to look like Russian ones. I can't find any YouTube clips of the rail scenes but when I saw the movie on TCM I was VERY impressed with the modifications on the locomotives.
The 39 Steps- oneof my favourites since I was a kid! It was a thrill to ride over the Forth Bridge 16 years ago. I had no idea it was painted red. The author of the story, John Buchan, as Lord Tweedsmuir became the governor general of Canada in 1935.
Of course, there are the movies where trains play an essential part in the action, but not from an enthusiast's standpoint.
Like the Red Shoes, with Moira Shearer. Or Hannay's escape in the 39 Steps.
My mom and I both loved the scene from Brief Encounter when Celia Johnson's Laura comes in pathetically saying (and no one, not even Merle Oberon, could do that like Celia) she 'just wanted to see the express go through'...
M636CThe Lady Vanishes (1938) (directed by Hitchcock)
Great! I had forgotten about that one.
Of course, we're talking about movies that are not "train movies" but have trains in them.
My favorite "train movie" still has to be "Silver Streak".
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