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Trains in Films
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18-09-2011 1:36pm#1
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North West Frontier (retitled Flame Over India in the U.S. and Empress of India in Australia)[1] is a 1959 British adventure film starring Kenneth More and Lauren Bacall.
The film is set in the North West Frontier Province of British India, which now lies within modern Pakistan.
Exteriors were shot in southern Spain near Guadix, a city in the province of Granada, the dry arid steppe doubling for British India. The railway, now abandoned, traversed the northern part of the Sierra Nevadas.[6]
The famous viaduct scene was filmed at Hacho Bridge which was completed in 1894 by engineers influenced by Gustav Eiffel. It is one of the largest bridges in Spain, 650 metres (2,130 ft) long and 50 metres (160 ft) high. The bridge is located between the two Andalusian cities of Guadahortuna and Alamedilla. Today the line across the viaduct has been lifted. A modern rail crossing has been built alongside the old iron bridge.[7][8]
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The Train is a 1964 war movie directed by John Frankenheimer from a story and screenplay by Franklin Coen and Frank Davis, based on the non-fiction book Le front de l'art by Rose Valland. It stars Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau.
Set in August 1944, the film sets Resistance-member Labiche (Lancaster) against German Col. von Waldheim (Scofield), who is attempting to ship art masterpieces from a French museum to Germany.
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The Titfield Thunderbolt is a 1953 British comedy film about a group of villagers trying to prevent British Railways from closing the fictional Titfield branch line. The film was written by T.E.B. Clarke and was inspired by the restoration of the narrow gauge Talyllyn Railway in Wales, the world's first heritage railway run by volunteers.
It starred Stanley Holloway, George Relph and John Gregson, and was directed by Charles Crichton. Michael Truman was the producer. The film was produced by Ealing Studios. It was the first Ealing comedy shot in Technicolor and one of the first colour comedies made in the UK.
There was considerable inspiration from the book "Railway Adventure" by established railway book author L. T. C. Rolt, published in 1952. Rolt had acted as honorary manager for the volunteer enthusiasts running the Talyllyn Railway for the two years 1951-2. A number of scenes in the film, such as the emergency re-supply of water to the locomotive by buckets from an adjacent stream, or passengers being asked to assist in pushing the carriages, were taken from this book.
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Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) is a British comedy film starring Will Hay
Despite the majority of the film being set in Northern Ireland, none of the filming was done there—the railway station at Buggleskelly was the disused Cliddesden railway station on the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway, which had closed to goods in 1936.[2] Filming took place from mid-June 1937 and lasted approximately two months.[3] The windmill in which Porter and his colleagues are trapped is located at Terling, Essex,[4] and "Gladstone", the ancient steam train, was portrayed by No.2 Northiam 2-4-0T built by Hawthorn Leslie in 1899 and loaned by the Kent and East Sussex Railway to the film. The engine was returned to the company after completion of the film and remained in service until 1941, when it was scrapped.[5][6]
The title sequence uses scenes shot at a variety of locations on the Waterloo to Southampton railway line, and according to John Huntley in his book Railways on Screen, "[t]he editor reversed his negative at one stage in preparing the title backgrounds, causing them to come out reversed on the final print".[7] The scene in which Porter travels to Buggleskelly by bus, whilst being warned of a terrible danger by locals, parodies that of the Tod Browning film, Dracula (1931).[8]
The Southern Railway of Northern Ireland that Porter works for is fictitious, in reality from the route chosen on the map the line would have belonged to the Great Northern Railway (Ireland), with Buggleskelly being close to the real town of Lisnaskea. In addition, the Irish border on the map portrayed in the film is inaccurate, placing the border too far east, and roughly along the eastern coast of Lough Erne rather than the border of County Fermanagh.
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A Minute's Wait
The Rising of the Moon is a 1957 anthology film directed by John Ford.[1][2][3][4] It consists of three episodes all set in Ireland:
A train pulls up to the Dunfaill station, where Paddy Morrisey (Jimmie O'Dea) announces there will be "a minute's wait". The passengers and crew crowd into the bar for refreshments, served by Pegeen Mallory (Maureen Potter). Later, Paddy finally proposes to his longtime girlfriend Pegeen.
Mrs. Falsey (May Craig) chats with her old friend Barney Domigan (Harold Goldblatt), while her niece Mary Ann MacMahon (Maureen Connell) becomes acquainted with his son Christy (Godfrey Quigley). Domigan is on his way to arrange a marriage between Christy and a young woman with a substantial dowry. Mrs. Falsey persuades him to change his mind by informing him that the U.S. Army has awarded Mary Ann $10,000 for her father's death in battle. The young couple, unaware of this development, insist they will only marry each other.
Meanwhile, the train is repeatedly delayed, much to the befuddlement of an older English couple (Anita Sharp-Bolster and Michael Trubshawe). They are first displaced from their first class compartment to make way for a prize-winning goat. Then, they have to share their new compartment with lobsters intended for the bishop's golden jubilee. When they finally get off for some tea, they are left behind when the train finally departs.
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The First Great Train Robbery starred Sean Connery & Donald Sutherland. Obviously the story of the train robbery but with a huge Irish influence. The train sequences were filmed here in Ireland with much filming on the Mullingar to Athlone line with RPSI locomotive 184 painted in a mock south eastern livery(UK).
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If you're interested in animated films then 5cm/s is a great one that heavily focuses on trains. Its a romance short film (about 50 minutes). Really good animation quality and a very nice story, a bit sad.
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Runaway Train (1985) starring John Voight and Rebecca de Mornay.
Von Ryan's Express (1965) starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard.
The Money Train (1995) starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson.
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Having watched the intro I can't imagine why!DWCommuter wrote: »And from the same year, but a TV series (that failed).
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Ah Supertrain I remember it well, shocking bad stuff. Exactly the sort of thing RTE would fill the schedules with back then.
Von Ryan Express must get a mention, jolly entertaining battle between the (un)Allies and the Bosch in Northern Italy. Some good choo-choo footage in the trailer.
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That was Disaster on the Coastliner as mentioned above I think.
One of the most famous Train movies was also one of the first - Buster Keatons The General which features a legendary bridge collapse which being real still holds up very well.
The train was left on the river bank until recycled for scrap during WW2.0 -
This guy used a train to push a DeLorean and managed to move through time. Who would have thought it.
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That sounds a little bit like Under Siege 2: Dark Territory with Steven Seagal.
Nope. Its definately Disaster on the Coast liner.
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Underground aka Resistance (1970)
Synopsis from IMDB
Major Joe Dawson parachutes into Nazi-held France where he is immediately picked up by the Marquis resistance movement. He discloses to the leader, Boule, that his mission is to kidnap the well-protected German General Stryker and take him back alive to London. The plan is to arouse the suspicions of the Gestapo as to Stryker's loyalty in order to get him out into the open. Then, as he is being carried back to Germany for trial, he will be taken from his German guards. The Marquis with whom Dawson will work is Yvonne who will pose as his wife. She is repulsed by his coldness and the nonchalance with which he kills in order to accomplish his ends, but she works with him for the cause. She later learns that Dawson and a woman companion (Ella More) had been in France before on the same mission, but they had been caught and tortured, with Dawson driven out of his mind before escaping back to England...
The bad news first - it never made it to DVD and is rarely available anywhere. I bought my copy on eBay. Anyway I sat back to watch it tonight and for Irish railway enthusiasts it's a gem. Enniscorthy station is transformed into St.Chaupin (France) and Maybach E424 is shown busily shunting miscellaneous goods wagons including large quantities of the now extinct cattle wagon. Apart from E424, the ex.GSWR Directors Saloon (since scrapped) which once was a favourite on IRRS tours also features. Intriguingly a tunnel from Enniscorthy/St.Chaupin station leads into a network of cellars and the Guinness Brewery railway - and there's even a diesel hauled narrow gauge train! One for the serious Irish railway movie buff.0 -
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