tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post8548687291827180954..comments2024-03-24T21:42:48.278-04:00Comments on Another Old Movie Blog: All Aboard - Trains in the MoviesJacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-90467416687121709942007-08-21T17:34:00.000-04:002007-08-21T17:34:00.000-04:00Welcome aboard, Campaspe. The porter will be gett...Welcome aboard, Campaspe. The porter will be getting your compartment ready directly. Go have a drink in the bar car while you're waiting. There's a spirited discussion and some arm wrestling going on.<BR/><BR/>Thanks so much for that excellent link to The Art of Memory. What a magnificent list of train films and collection of photos. All you train fans, please go to the link and have a look.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-6279555268269090472007-08-21T15:40:00.000-04:002007-08-21T15:40:00.000-04:00I love all train scenes, it's something of a rule ...I love all train scenes, it's something of a rule of mine. Just saw a honey in "Five Fingers", the Mankiwiecz spy film with James Mason. And "The Narrow Margin" (the original of course) is a splendid train movie, with no soundtrack, just the train noises. I thought it captured the actual discomforts of train travel for the masses quite well. <BR/><BR/>I wish I could get a tape of an old 60 Minutes segment they did about the (temporary as it turned out) mothballing of the Orient Express. It included a marvelous montage of people popping their heads out of compartments. How I want compartments!<BR/><BR/>Since you brought up this hobbyhorse you should really see <A HREF="http://theartofmemory.blogspot.com/2007/03/trains-in-cinema-part-1.html" REL="nofollow">this</A> over at the blog The Art of Memory, it is quite a feat.The Sirenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13587505433284584391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-8615573317932305882007-08-17T15:39:00.000-04:002007-08-17T15:39:00.000-04:00Welcome aboard, Laura! Dining car is one car down...Welcome aboard, Laura! Dining car is one car down, we're all meeting there for some intrigue.<BR/><BR/>Those are two terrific examples of train scenes. Thanks so much for your input.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-23011097236979895882007-08-17T14:57:00.000-04:002007-08-17T14:57:00.000-04:00The first two which come to mind:The raucous party...The first two which come to mind:<BR/><BR/>The raucous partying of the Ale & Quail club and Claudette Colbert crushing Rudy Vallee's glasses on the train in THE PALM BEACH STORY...<BR/><BR/>The climax of HOLIDAY AFFAIR with Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh's reunion glimpsed through the train windows. (Jack Kelly of MAVERICK has a bit part as the drunken partygoer who gets in their way...)<BR/><BR/>Fun topic!<BR/><BR/>Best wishes,<BR/>LauraLaurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09626109831176745957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-55376026209762596732007-08-16T20:05:00.000-04:002007-08-16T20:05:00.000-04:00Welcome aboard, Sonso1. Very, very good. Conside...Welcome aboard, Sonso1. Very, very good. Considering I'd recently blogged about "The Lady Eve", it was silly of me to forget that scene. Thanks for throwing that one out to us.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-61335951747987916842007-08-16T18:25:00.000-04:002007-08-16T18:25:00.000-04:00The Lady Eve -- Stanwyck unleashes her plan agains...The Lady Eve -- Stanwyck unleashes her plan against the hapless Hopsie while on their honeymoon train ride.SoNSo1https://www.blogger.com/profile/05861827365570036712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-50545970998052683582007-08-16T10:28:00.000-04:002007-08-16T10:28:00.000-04:00Wow, J.C., you've named some great films here, gre...Wow, J.C., you've named some great films here, great job! <BR/><BR/>I know what you mean about expecting movie-style intrigue when you get on a train. I'm the same way. Ships, too. Nothing much ever happens, but I'm always on the lookout. (Sigh.)Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-40986080113779680562007-08-16T10:02:00.000-04:002007-08-16T10:02:00.000-04:00Ahh- some great train flicks:Romance!North by Nort...Ahh- some great train flicks:<BR/><B>Romance!</B><BR/>North by Northwest- Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in the dining car is very erotic if you know how to listen to the dialouge. Nobody needs the naughty stuff shoved in our face when there is competent directors, good actors and excellent writing around. <BR/><B>Thrills!</B><BR/>James Bond rode the train through Europe several times and almost bought the farm on the train in From Russia With Love<BR/><B>Laughs!</B><BR/>A more modern funny train movie is the Silver Streak with Gene Wilder, Jill Claybough and Richard Pryor!<BR/>Hollywood used the train for all kinds of films for romance, action and adventure- (How about At the Circus, Murder on the Orient Express or Strangers on a Train? the list could go on and on) The train used to be glamerous on celluloid. I remember when I rode my first train (not a Carnival ride, but an actual trip) was a passenger train in Brazil. Boy was I disappointed. I though I was going to be able to sit an elegant place setting in the dining car, meet a beautiful woman who would entangle me, an average Joe, in an international scheme involving money or a painting or something and murder- and only I could stop them because the police were not on the train! None of that happened! Gee Whiz...<BR/>On a different note... (if I am remembering the film correctly)I think the best "train" movie that really didn't take place on the train (but the train was central to the story) was David Lean's Brief Encounter. <BR/>Great post! This was fun!J.C. Loopholehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11976993877171613834noreply@blogger.com