Mine would be "End of the Line"... I guess since it hit so close to real life, a railroad shutting down their run. Alot wrong with it, but still a good movie.
Mike_C, I own all of the 200 plus movies John Wayne made!!!!! Including Stagecoach!!!!!! My favorite of them all would be 2 of them he made, "True Grit" or "The Sons Of Katie Elder"! But I love 'em all so.... its JW we're talking about HEE HEE!
It's not really a "train" movie, but don't forget "In the Heat of the Night". They have some interesting shots of MOPAC (probably Texas & Pacific) equipment in operation. I'll also vote for "Silver Streak" also. Robert
Thats another one some one mentioned..."the Fugitive". Again I do not have the name handy but the parody movie they made of that one was hilarious. The shots in the train wreck scene where the diesel is chasing him through the wood...Hiding behind and peeking out from behind the trees...man if that don't make ya laugh check your pulse. Its done in "Airplane" type style with enough bad jokes and puns to be ludicrous in spots but a great couple of hours of laughs. Later Gents.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mopartex: ...Again I do not have the name handy but the parody movie they made of (the Fugitve) was hilarious.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> It's Naked Gun 33 1/3, and if you like sophomoric humor (I do!) it's a fun one...
Runaway Train was okay, especially the last 1/2 hr and the part of the big wreck. Silver Streak was great. BTW-I saw a STAR TREK:THE NEXT GENERATION episode that was set aboard a steam locomotive and parlor car. had the coal,firebox,conductor & engineer.
"Hey John , I think that would be the Wild Wild West . (The old series was good too).They had one heck of a parlor car there didnt they? I liked JW in the Fighting Seabes, and Sands of Iowagima (sp?) too. I must say that wheather he was in a western, war movie , or one of his rare dective movies,(Bullit) any thing he did was always first rate.Did you ever see his first movie Stagecoch?....Mike " The name of that engine that stars in the NEW Wild Wild West is the Wanderer (which curently resides in the B & O Railroad Museum in Baltimore) and is the only operational steam locomotive in their collection.
I would have to cast a vote for Silver Streak just to see the engine smile at the end . The parady for the fugitive movie was "Wrongfully Accused" staring leslie Nielson . That has the train hiding behind the tree very funny movie!
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by randy shepler: ...The parady for the fugitive movie was "Wrongfully Accused" staring leslie Nielson . That has the train hiding behind the tree very funny movie! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> You're right Randy. Though the Naked Gun movies we're fun too...
I know this aint about planes but in the movie "Tuskegee Airmen" they show enemy supply trains getting strafed and blown all to hell.
Definately not a train movie......but, "Flight of The Intruder". RE: an A-6 Bombing missions over Hanoi. This was recreated in Nscale, including rail yards etc which were blown to bits!! I forget which train mag had the article referencing it. A local SFX company in LA did the work, which took up an entire floor of a sound stage to model. I suppose nowadays, it would be done with CGI. Mike
also the "bck to The Future" when Mary and Doc Murphy went west during the AMERICAN civil war (go reb's!!) era and it included a LOT of train in it.
To Mike C. and 7600em: I have a project for the both of you. Go to a video store and rent [or pull out of your collection] Stagecoach and the Humphrey Bogart movie 'the Tank or Sahara'. Watch them both side by side. It was an old studio trick in the '40's to change title and cast BUT NOT THE SCRIPT. These two movies are identical only the location, and characters have been changed!
I am surprised no one has mentioned any of my favorites. The original Silver Streak which stars the CBQ Pioneer Zephyr. The movie uses actual film from the trial runs and the publicity tour. The plot is that they have to rush an iron lung from Chicago to the Hoover Dam construction site to save workers struck down by polio. Excellant film documentation of some of the dam construction too. Danger Lights: Story of railroaders, with land slides, floods and rushing an injured railroader from somewhere west of Minn. to Chicago for an emergency brain operation. Incredible train action scenes. All filmed on the Milwaukee road. Stars the same guy who brings King Kong to New York. "The Great Train Robbery" with Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland. It is about the first train robbery in history, circa 1850. Incredible train action shots. Filmed in Ireland using period steam engine and cars on a line that looks just like an English line in the 1850's. The story is great as well as the train.
My favorite has to be "Tough Guys" starring SP GS-4 #4449 with co-stars Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster. Great cameo appearance by Doyle McCormack as well ("You're crazy, nobody robs trains anymore...") It falls in my era (late 80's) and stars my favorite steam engine. I also found the storyline entertaining and filming quality top notch. Exactly what you would expect from Disney. As runner-ups on my list, I would go with "Silver Streak" (Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder) and "End of the Line" (Wilford Brimley, Kevin Bacon). Also, I remember watching "The Great Locomotive Chase" when I was a kid and found it entertaining as well. [ 16 June 2001: Message edited by: Kevin Stevens ]
La Bete Humaine (Jean Gabin) (remade in the 50s in America with, I think, Glenn Ford in the role of the engineer). Night Mail (UK, 1930s). A train film with Jack Warner (can't remember the name but lots of very atmospheric LMS scenes filmed around Camden shed in London). The 39 Steps (scenes on the East Coast Main Line in pre-war LNER days). Get Carter (starring Michael Caine - the opening credits feature a 5 or 6 minute version of a journey from London to Newcastle in the 1970s - Deltics, semaphore signals, freight trains!). The Ipcress File (also starring Michael Caine - wonderful shots of Marylebone in the last days of steam in the 1960s). All fantastic films even without the railway content! Ben
A movie that I didn't see mentioned was the "Saratoga Trunk" I am not even sure if that is the right name. But I do remember the head-on crash of two steamers. That crash and the tension that leads up to it is all that I remember. It must have been 30 yrs ago when I saw it. Another movie I remember is the Cassandra Crossing. If I remember correctly the train has a passenger with a highly contagious disease and they authorities try to send it to an old concentration camp. The only thing in the way is an old spindly metal tressle over the Cassandra river.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MOPAC 1: It's not really a "train" movie, but don't forget "In the Heat of the Night". They have some interesting shots of MOPAC (probably Texas & Pacific) equipment in operation. I'll also vote for "Silver Streak" also. Robert<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Sorry, but "In the Heat of the Night" had GM&O eguipment, not MoPac. The Movie was filmed in my mother's home town of Sparta, IL., GM&O territory. The Train was run in special by GM&O, just for the Movie. I do believe it was GM&O E-8 #100 (their only E-8) on the lead. My faves would have to be a tie between "The Train" and "Emperor of the North". Great Movies! [ 07 July 2001: Message edited by: Maxwell Plant ]