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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 28, 2020 9:18:07 GMT
Turksib (1929) Soviet Union Dir. Viktor Turin.. An absolutely fascinating film documenting the lives of Turkic people, a culturally rich drama set in the remote dry steppe region of Central Asia The central theme is the construction of Turkestan–Siberia Railway. The rail line stretched northeast from Tashkent; capital and largest city of Uzbekistan, to Almaty; the largest city in Kazakhstan, and on to Novosibirsk; southwestern Siberia. Enjoyed a re-watch just recently, included in a much treasured box set "Landmarks of Early Soviet Film"
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Post by teleadm on Jul 1, 2020 8:49:41 GMT
British drama It Always Rains on Sunday 1947, many small stories intervenes, one of them about an escapes prisoner hiding in London's East End. A locomotive can be seen on the bridge, a sort of foretelling that there will be a manhunt on a nearby rail yard near the end Running along the rails. Hiding The escaped prisoner hiding above a train, since it's England I guess it's coal. He will be caught in the end.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Nov 28, 2020 9:15:38 GMT
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Nov 29, 2020 13:42:40 GMT
The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford (2007) has some beautifully shot scenes by cinematography Roger Deakins involving a train.
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Post by mstreepsucks on Nov 29, 2020 22:08:24 GMT
Train model miniature sequence scene in one of Alfred hitchcock early films.
Hilariously bad special effects.
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Post by london777 on Dec 20, 2020 23:07:17 GMT
Danger Lights (1930) dir: George B. Seitz According to IMDb: The tough boss of a railroad yard befriends a young hobo, and unwittingly places in jeopardy his relationship with the woman he loves.It is on YouTube for anyone interested. Some good actual train shots in it, besides the usual laughable model-work. I shall not be watching it. It was released before 1941 (year of The Maltese Falcon). I do have standards, you know. In looking for a still, I came across this website: Obscure Train Movies
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 20, 2020 23:37:13 GMT
There are train wrecks in Mad Love and The Hands of Orloc apparently too graphic for images on Yahoo... BUT the lady love in both manages to find her man in the wreck by peering in the broken windows.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 10, 2021 17:48:42 GMT
D-Railed (2018) takes place on a murder mystery train that is targeted by robbers committing a heist, only to derail and wind up in a lake with a creature that likes to kill and eat people. And you didn't want to fly!
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 25, 2021 6:24:03 GMT
Three Godfathers
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Post by london777 on Mar 2, 2021 16:45:09 GMT
Paradise Express (1937) dir: Joseph Kane whose directorial career extended from 1934 thru 1975, racking up 130 credits. He was best known for Westerns starring John Wayne, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. Concerns a small local railroad being put out of business by a crooked trucking company. I wonder if this inspired the Ealing Studios comedy The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953) dir: Charles Crichton, where the threat to the local line's continuation is an unscrupulous bus company? Currently viewable on YouTube.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 2, 2021 23:47:17 GMT
Nippon dorobô monogatari, A Tale of Japanese Burglars (1965) Dir. Satsuo Yamamoto. This excellent film weaves within the true tale of the Matsukawa Train Derailment. Yamamoto also made another film, an expose focusing entirely on the incident & trial, written by Kaneto Shindo the film Matsukawa-Jiken (1961) unfortunately cannot be found atm. In the chaos of post war Japan Hayashida fronts as an illegal dentist during the daytime, moon-lighting in the evening as a professional storehouse burglar... One eventful nocturnal outing he becomes witness to a train derailment, three crew are killed. Members of the Japanese Communist Party are blamed & arrested, but witness Hayashida is not so sure, he could get involved & save innocent people, but for that he must confess and acknowledge his own crimes... It was the second major Japanese train derailment of 1949. Three crewmen died when their C511 steam locomotive overturned between Kanayagawa and Matsukawa stations in Fukushima Prefecture. According to accident investigators, the nuts and bolts on the track joints had been loosened. Still under Allied occupation General Douglas MacArthur was Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP), allegations of sabotage were raised by the government & SCAP who sought to blame the Japanese Communist Party and the National Railway Union Many people believed those arrested in the Mitaka and Matsukawa derailments were framed by SCAP and the government to slander the Communist Party. After many trials, convictions & death penalties handed down, in 1961 all the defendants were acquitted at the Sendai High Court... The Matsukawa Derailment...
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 2, 2021 23:56:30 GMT
Making the most of the exotic location & CinemaScope, Samuel Fuller's House of Bamboo (1955) opens with the heist of a military train carrying guns and ammunition...
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Post by Archelaus on Mar 3, 2021 0:11:19 GMT
There were scenes featuring trains in both installments of The Incredibles: Hancock: Oliver & Company: Carlito's Way: Joker: The Amazing Spider-Man: Source Code The Fugitive
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 3, 2021 1:05:38 GMT
French writer director Chris Marker composed two excellent fascinating films in celebration of Soviet era Director, filmmaker Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin.In the early 1930s Alexander Medvedkin ran the ‘kino-poezd’ a ‘cine train’, seeking to raise the consciousness of the Soviet Union’s rural dwellers. His fully equipped train was re-fitted with cameras, editing tables and processing labs. The cine train travelled the breadth of Russia to make films for and with the workers. Films were made spontaneously on the spot, in collaboration with the local people, shot in one, day, processed during the night, edited the following day and screened in front of the very people who had participated to the making… The Train Rolls On (1971) an excellent 32 min Doc currently on YT and The Last Bolshevik (1992). Dziga-VERTOV- The-Man-with-the-Movie-Camera-1929
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 3, 2021 1:15:28 GMT
Pánico en el Transiberiano (1972) dir: Eugenio Martin Starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, so presumably an Iberian equivalent of a Hammer Horror. IMDb says: An English anthropologist has discovered a frozen monster in the frozen wastes of Manchuria which he believes may be the Missing Link. He brings the creature back to Europe aboard a trans-Siberian express, but during the trip the monster thaws out and starts to butcher the passengers one by one. In the Anglophone world, released as:
Rumors that the train sets were acquired from the production of Doctor Zhivago (or Nicholas and Alexandra) were refuted by Gordon, who said in a 2000 interview that the model had been constructed for Pancho Villa. Filmmakers used the mock-up from Pancho Villa as the interior for all train cars during production, since no further room was available on stage. All scenes within each train car were shot consecutively, with the set then modified for the next car's scenes.
That film also had Savalas. The poster tagline for this film was
Travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway can be dull until some hell-bent prehistoric monster breaks the ice!
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Post by london777 on Mar 3, 2021 2:12:17 GMT
The poster tagline for this film was
Travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway can be dull until some hell-bent prehistoric monster breaks the ice!
That has to be the least snappy tagline ever?
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 3, 2021 2:21:33 GMT
That has to be the least snappy tagline ever? I dont think it was used in the actual ad campaign-it was the caption on the concept art poster by Tom Chantrell.
Maybe he or someone did it as a joke.
Oh maybe it was used. Here is what IMDB says(so much more exciting than the average modern taglines!)
Book your tickets now to a trip to TERROR Travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway can be dull until some hell-bent prehistoric monster breaks the ice! A non-stop ride to hell!! What it does to you in the dark... is worse than death! See Kojak solve his greatest case. Travel the rail of HORROR!! Can it be stopped? A nightmare of terror travelling aboard the Horror Express! Your Non Stop Ride to Hell Boards at 8 P.M.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 3, 2021 15:02:15 GMT
Posted already? Colonel Mortimer makes an unscheduled stop at Tucumcari in For A Few Dollars More.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 3, 2021 16:51:49 GMT
Dark of the Sun (aka Last Train From Katanga, aka Les Merceanaires)
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 8, 2021 0:43:17 GMT
Arsenal (Ukrainian: Арсенал) aka by an alternative title, January Uprising in Kyiv in 1918 (1929) Soviet Union, Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko, Highlighted in this outstanding "Historic Revolutionary Epic” is an incredibly exciting train sequence.. A train overflowing with Bolshevik soldiers returning from World War 1 is threatened by a group of haidamaks from Ukraine’s national army. Preventing the hijacking with a show of machine-gun diplomacy, the train continues on. Having come to a stand still soon after, the engineer has reservations about the brakes, eager to get home however, the train journeys on regardless leaving its driver behind on the tracks, hurtling down a steep grade the loaded train speeds to an inevitable dramatic end... Intercutting the out-of-control forward-moving train with a single soldier playing an accordion, the dynamic brilliance, the complexities of Dovzhenko's train sequence have been hailed a lesson in montage and film technique.
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