Train Movies & Railroad Films on DVD & Blu-ray
From classic comedies to thrillers, this train movies guide includes 151 feature-length movies with
railroad/subway plots or notable scenes.
A description of filming locations is provided with many titles, including historical
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Top 10 Classic Train Movies
as selected by RailServe.com Editor Christopher Muller |
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#1 - The Train (1964)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Simon
Director: John Frankenheimer (replaced Arthur Penn upon firing)
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 133 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.8 (of 10)
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Synopsis: With the Allied army approaching Paris
in August 1944,
German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield)
steals a collection of paintings from the Mus e du Jeu de Paume and loads them on a
train bound for Berlin. Labiche (Burt Lancaster), a railway inspector
and member of the Resistance, is at first more concerned with
weapons than art. But when a friend is murdered trying to sabotage the
colonel's scheme, Labiche vows to stop the art train at any cost. Labiche
and his fellow railway men unleash a torrent of devastation but must
use skill and deception to protect the train's prized cargo. The story was inspired by an
actual art looting and France's successful delay
of the German train until the Allies arrived.
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Filming Locations: The Train was primarily filmed on
location in France, featuring authentic train derailments, wrecks, and air attacks staged in "full scale"
without models and with limited sets. Period equipment was donated by French National Railways (SNCF)
during their transition from steam to diesel, and full access was
provided to seldom used routes and yards. As a result, The Train
is widely considered to have the most authentic railroad scenes in a feature film.
Except for the interior museum shots which were filmed with a studio
set, other early scenes including the loading of the art train were shot
near Paris at the docks of St. Ouen. The rail yard (Vaires)
destroyed by an air raid (filmed using A-26s from the French Air Force) was actually
staged west of Paris at Gargenville, and required four months to plant and wire
nearly two tons dynamite. The Spitfire attack on the daytime light engine return
to Rive-Reine (filmed using a Spitfire Mark V) was shot just south of the Ch teau de Robert-le-Diable,
near Moulineaux, where the tunnel and viaduct are still used today in
freight service. The stations shown during the run to Germany were
filmed for about 25 straight nights east of Paris at Troyes, Longueville, and Provins.
The station, crash, and hotel in the fictional Rive-Reine were actually
filmed at Acquigny, approximately 60 miles northwest of Paris. The
scenes immediately before the crash were shot on the track heading south
from Acquigny. The idea of a circuitous route returning to Rive-Reine
was not part of the original script, but was improvised to maximize
filming opportunities at Acquigny. Director John Frankenheimer felt the
village was superior to the initially intended filming locations. Passenger service to Acquigny ended four years prior to filming,
providing the opportunity to stage the crash sequence without
interrupting rail service. The line is still active as an industrial branch as of 2008, serving the
Georgia Pacific mill near Hondouville. The station is now used for
offices, and the hotel where Labiche stayed the night was converted to a private
residence.
The steam locomotives are Class 230Bs #739 (leads the military train
Paris to Vaires), 517 (art train until Rive-Reine crash), 855 (rear
engine in Rive-Reine crash), and
711 (art train post-crash). The "armored" locomotive was just another conventional steam
engine with exterior casing built by the filmmakers. The air raid at
Vaires included several Class 141R locomotives at the engine shop,
though perhaps unintentionally as this locomotive class did not begin
delivery until 1945. Additionally, a
Class 030C #757 was used for the initial derailment at Rive-Reine that blocked the art train.
The derailment of #757 was intended to occur much slower, but the
stuntman pulled the throttle too far before jumping and caused a high
speed crash that took out 9 of 10 cameras and suspended shooting for two
days. The unharmed (buried) camera captured a stunning track-level shot
for the film.
The art train served not only as a key prop in the film, but also to
transport the filmmakers' equipment between shooting locations.
-- Christopher Muller, RailServe.com |
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#2 - Emperor of the North (1973)
Cast: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, Charles
Tyner,
Malcolm Atterbury
Director: Robert Aldrich
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 118 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
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Synopsis: In this gritty period drama set in the
depths of the Great Depression, Lee Marvin stars as A #1, the King of the Hoboes. A #1 is famous
for his ability to catch a ride on any train no matter how risky the hop
or dangerous the guards. He acts as a sort of mentor for Cigaret (Keith
Carradine), a young hobo who brags that someday he'll surpass A #1. Neither has had the courage to ride a train
guarded by Shack (Ernest Borgnine), an unusually sadistic railroad cop
who will brutally beat or even murder any man who tries to catch a ride
on his train. A #1 is determined that no one, not even Cigaret, is going
to deny him his title, so taking his life in his hands he and Cigaret
hop a ride on Shack's train.
Filming Locations: Filmed on the Oregon Pacific & Eastern Railroad, including
the rail yard in Cottage Grove, Oregon, with 2-8-2 Mikado Steam Engine #19 which
now operates in excursion service on the Yreka Western Railroad in
Yreka, California. Ex-Magma Arizona 2-8-0 #5 also appeared as numbers 4
and 27 to represent different engines on different trains.
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#3 - The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Cast: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo,
Earl Hindman, Jerry Stiller
Director: Joseph Sargent
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 104 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.7 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Somewhere underground in New York's subway system, just
outside the Pelham Station, a gang of armed men hijack a train
threatening to kill one hostage per minute unless their demands are met.
Forced to stall these unknown assailants until a ransom is delivered or
a rescue is made, transit chief Lt. Garber (Walter Matthau) must ad-lib, bully,
con, and shrewdly outmaneuver one of the craftiest and cruelest villains
(Robert Shaw) in a battle of wits that will either end heroically or
tragically.
Filming Locations: Filmed on location in the New York
City Subway including tunnels, stations, and subway cars. The hijackers
commandeer car #7339, an R22 car built for the IRT in 1958. Some scenes
were filmed in Brooklyn's former Court Street Line, which now serves as
a link to the New York City Transit Museum. The dispatch/control center
was filmed using a studio replica that accurately portrays a control
center of the time.
Remake Note: A remake of this film starring Denzel Washington (as
Lt. Garber) and John Travolta (as the lead hijacker) was released on
DVD and
Blu-ray in November 2009.
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#4 - La Bataille Du Rail (1946)
Director: Ren Cl ment
Format: French (English subtitles), Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 85 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A courageous effort from noted French
director Rene Clement who completed the film during the final months of
WWII under extremely dangerous conditions. Using a cast of
non-professionals, Clement tells the story of French railway workers who
bravely battle the Nazis on many fronts, aiding the Allied invasion of
1944. Legendary cameraman Henri Alekan (Beauty and the Beast), himself a
resistance fighter who escaped Nazi POW camps, shot the film in a
gritty, semi-documentary style.
Filming Locations: Filmed on the French National
Railways (SNCF) in 1945, using steam locomotives, rolling stock, armored
train, and infrastructure authentic to WWII. All scenes were filmed
"full scale" -- there were no models or soundstage used.
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#5 - The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)
Cast: Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York, John Lupton, Eddie
Firestone
Director: Francis D. Lyon
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 88 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: When Andrews (Fess Parker), a Union spy, leads a team
of soldiers into the South to demolish the railway system, things don't
go as planned. The train conductor catches on to the plan, and does
everything he can to stop them. Based on the true Civil War story of
Andrews' Raiders, who captured a Confederate railroad train during the
Civil War and were then pursued by another Confederate locomotive.
Filming Locations: Filmed on the now abandoned Tallulah Falls
Railway which ran 58 miles from Cornelia, Georgia to Franklin, North
Carolina until 1961. Rural locations along the line resembled the site
of the actual chase which occurred nearly 100 miles to the southwest in
Kennesaw, Georgia. The General was filmed with 4-4-0 American Steam
Engine #25 "William Mason" (built 1856), borrowed from the B&O Railroad
Museum where it still operates today. Yonah was shot with a B&O Museum replica of the 1837
"Lafayette." Finally, Texas was filmed using Inyo #22 (built 1875)
of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. The B&O Museum also supplied two
Civil War ammunition cars, two coaches, and a baggage car, and Disney
built an additional five period boxcars. The actual steam engine on
which the film is based, The General (built 1855), is safely preserved
at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in Kennesaw,
Georgia.
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#6 - Night Passage (1957)
Cast: James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Dianne Foster,
Elaine Stewart
Director: James Neilson
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 91 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.7 (of 10)
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Synopsis: When the local railroad becomes the constant target of
a band of desperadoes led by the notorious Whitey Harbin (Dan Duryea),
train officials recruit soft-spoken but life-hardened employee Grant
McLaine (Stewart) to guard the payroll from any more robberies. Trouble
is, the gang's most skilled and lethal gun-slinger, the Utica Kid (Audie
Murphy), is Grant's kid brother. Torn between the bonds of blood and his
allegiance to the railroad, Grant finds himself hoping for the best but
preparing for the worst as the train comes under attack from Harbin's
bandits.
Filming Locations: Filmed at the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (Durango, Colorado)
using Denver & Rio Grande Western K-28 Class 2-8-2 #476 which still
operates in excursion service today. Railroad scenes were shot just north of Ah Wilderness Ranch,
while nearby filming
locations included Molas Lake,
Red Mountain City, Silverton, and two mines north of Silverton --
Shenandoah-Dives Mine and Mayflower Mine.
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#7 - Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carr , Brad Dexter,
Sergio Fantoni, John Leyton,
Edward Mulhare, Wolfgang Preiss
Director: Mark Robson
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 117 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: When US combat pilot Col. Joseph Ryan (Frank Sinatra)
is shot down by Nazis and placed in a prison camp, he's more concerned
with surviving than escaping, earning him the insulting nickname, "Von
Ryan." But in time, Ryan takes over from the commanding British officer
(Trevor Howard) and masterminds the commandeering of a train and gets it
across Italy to Switzerland with the Nazis in hot pursuit. Then it's all
blazing action, hair-raising chases, and spectacular Italian scenery in
this Oscar-nominated adventure that runs full speed until the
nail-biting finale.
Filming Locations: Exterior scenes were filmed on the Italian State
Railways, including the train station in Florence, Italy. Interior train
scenes (including compartments) were filmed on a soundstage. The final
battle scenes outside the train (with bridges and tunnels) were filmed
near El Chorro, M laga, Spain.
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#8 - La B te Humaine (1938)
Cast: Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux, Blanchette Brunoy
Director: Jean Renoir
Format: French (English subtitles), Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 85 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.8 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The story tells of train engineer Jacques Lantier (Jean Gabin)
who lusts after S verine Roubaud (Simone Simon), the wife of his co-worker Roubaud (Fernand Ledoux). Roubaud, discovers that his young wife, S verine, has
been seduced by her godfather, the wealthy Grandmorin. Jealous, Roubaud
forces S verine to assist in the murder of Grandmorin during a train
journey.
Filming Locations: Filmed on the French National
Railways (SNCF) between Le Havre and Paris, including St. Lazare Station
in Paris.
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#9 - Runaway Train (1985)
Cast: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, John P. Ryan
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 111 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Manny (John Voight) is the toughest convict in a remote
Alaskan prison who, along with fellow inmate Buck (Eric Roberts), makes
a daring break into the frozen wasteland. Hopping a freight train, they
head for freedom, but when the engineer dies of a heart attack, they
find themselves trapped and racing full-throttle towards disaster.
Crashing through stations at fatal speeds and hunted from above by a
sadistic warden in a helicopter, Manny and Buck are convinced it's just
the two of them against the world...until they discover a beautiful
railroad worker (Rebecca DeMornay) who's also trapped aboard and
destined to share their uncertain fate.
Filming Locations: Filmed on the Alaska Railroad near
Portage Glacier, Whittier, and Grandview, Alaska. Four Alaska Railroad
locomotives included GP40 #3010, F7 #1500, and GP7s #1801 and #1810. Railyard scenes were filmed at the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railroad in
Anaconda, Montana using BA&P's locomotive fleet and an F9 locomotive
from the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad. Miniature trains were utilized
for the crash scenes.
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#10 - The General (1927)
Cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack
Director: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
Format: Black & White, Silent
Runtime: 78 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.3 (of 10) - Ranked in Top 150 Films of All
Time
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Synopsis: Buster Keaton plays Johnny Gray, a Southern railroad
engineer who loves his train engine, The General, almost as much as he
loves Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack). When the opening shots of the Civil
War are fired at Fort Sumter, Johnny tries to enlist -- and he is deemed
too useful as an engineer to be a soldier. All Johnny knows is that he's
been rejected, and Annabelle, thinking him a coward, turns her back on
him. When Northern spies steal the General (and, unwittingly,
Annabelle), the story switches from drama and romance to adventure mixed
with Keaton's trademark deadpan humor as he uses every means possible to
catch up to the General, thwart the Yankees, and rescue his darling
Annabelle -- for starters.
Filming Locations: Filmed on a logging railroad in
Cottage Grove, Oregon.
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Other Films with Significant Railroad Themes
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The 15:17 to Paris (2018)
Cast: Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, Spencer Stone
Director: Clint Eastwood
Format: English, Color, Dolby Atmos
Runtime: 94 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.0 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Clint Eastwood directed this docudrama about an
incident in August 2015 in which three American tourists subdued an
armed terrorist aboard a Thalys train headed to Paris. These real-life
heroes -- Anthony Sadler, former Oregon National Guardsman Alek
Skarlatos, and former U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone --
portray themselves in the movie, which chronicles their lifelong
friendship and the numerous choices that prepared them to act quickly in
the face of sudden danger.
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Alfred Hitchcock's 39 Steps (1935)
Cast: Robert Donat, Madeliene Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Goodfrey
Tearle
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 86 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), a Canadian rancher on
vacation in England, attends a music hall performance by "Mr. Memory"
(Wylie Watson). In the midst of the show, shots ring out and Richard
flees the theater. Moments later, a terrified woman (Lucie Mannheim)
begs Richard to help her. Back at his room, she tells him that she's a
British spy whose life has been threatened by international agents
waiting outside. Richard is certain that she's mad until she reappears
at his door in the morning, near death with a knife in her back, a map
in her hand, and muttering something about "39 Steps." Discovering that
a group of thugs are indeed waiting outside, Richard slips away and
takes the first train to the Scottish town on the dead woman's map.
Richard learns that he's now wanted by the police for murder, and he
must find a way to clear his name.
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The Arizona Express
(1928)
Cast: Pauline Starke, Evelyn Brent, Anne Cornwall, Harold
Goodwin,
David Butler, Francis
McDonald, Frank Beal
Director: Tom Buckingham
Format: Black & White, Silent
Runtime: 70 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.4 (of 10)
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Synopsis: When David Keith (Harold Goodwin) is railroaded to
prison for allegedly killing his uncle, his sister Katherine (Pauline
Starke) must prove his innocence to the governor's office. Onboard the
Arizona Express, Katherine and her sweetheart Steve Butler (David
Butler) face off with the gang to save Katherine's brother.
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Atomic Train (1999)
Cast: Rob Lowe, Kristin Davis, Esai Morales, John Finn, Mena
Suvari
Director: David Jackson, Dick Lowry
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 168 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 4.5 (of 10)
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Synopsis: In this made-for-TV thriller, a train hauling a cargo
of radioactive waste is passing through Colorado when its brakes fail in
the Rocky Mountains. The train begins rolling out of control and is
headed for Denver with no way to stop it. John Seger (Rob Lowe), an
agent with the National Transportation Safety Board, has to find a way
to bring the train safely to a halt, and he soon learns that the stakes
are even greater than he imagined -- a faulty Russian atomic bomb is
also on board, which could blow the city sky high in the event of a
wreck.
Filming Locations: Filmed on the British Columbia Railway (BC
Rail) near Vancouver.
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Avalanche Express (1979)
Cast: Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell
Director: Mark Robson
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 88 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 4.6 (of 10)
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Synopsis: When a senior Russian official, Gen. Marenkov (Shaw),
decides to defect to the west, CIA agent Harry Wargrave (Marvin) is sent
to lead the team to get him out. During the journey they must survive
terrorist attack and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher
Nikolai Bunin (Schell).
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Berlin Express (1948)
Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 87 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: In this first American movie filmed in post-World War
II Germany, four postwar heroes from Britain, France, Russia, and the
U.S. are onboard a train where an anti-fascist German statesman is
kidnapped. The four must put aside their political differences to save
the man from a Nazi murder plot.
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Bhowani Junction (1956)
Cast: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers, Peter Illing
Director: George Cukor
Format: English, Black & White, Stereo
Runtime: 1010minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.2 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Set during India's battle for independence from
Britain, the film begins with Victoria Jones (Gardner) returning to her
native land after several years in England. Her loyalties are put to the
test by two men in her life: Col. Rodney Savage (Granger), whose job it
is to prevent sabotage on the railway at Bhowani Junction, and
Patrick Taylor (Travers), another half-caste like Victoria. When she is
forced to kill in self-defense, Victoria is given comfort by Communist
insurrectionist Ghanshyam (Illing), further dividing her fidelities.
Filming Locations: Filmed at the Longmoor Military Railway in
England and the Lahore & Northwestern Railway in Pakistan. The train
crash scene was shot at Longmoor with a locomotive made of plywood.
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The Billion Dollar Hobo (1977)
Cast: Tim Conway, Al Stellone, Ellen Gerstein, Jerry Toomey,
Kevin Brando
Director: Stuart E. McGowan
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 96 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 4.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The obtuse nephew of a multi-millionaire finds that he
has inherited a fortune. However, a stipulation in the will requires
that he become a hobo before he can become a billionaire. To inherit his
uncle's fortune, Vernon Praiseworthy must ride the rails in imitation of
a Depression-era hobo, just as his uncle did before he became rich.
Vernon and his faithful dog Bo take off on their adventure and soon find
themselves enmeshed in a dognapping scheme with two thugs.
Filming Locations: Filmed on the Southern Pacific Railroad around
Santa Susana Pass (southern California) using GP20 #4101 and GP9s #3840
and #3688, among others.
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Blind Chance (1981)
Cast: Boguslaw Linda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz,
Boguslawa Pawelec
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 122 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.8 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski weaves a
fascinating tale of fate that draws the curtain back on life in
communist Poland circa 1980. The film plays out three possible life
scenarios for a disillusioned young man named Witek (Boguslaw Linda),
all depending on whether he catches a certain train to Warsaw.
Filming Locations: Filmed at the Lodz Fabryczna station in
Poland.
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Boxcar Bertha (1972)
Cast: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus, Bernie
Casey
Director: Martin Scorsese
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 88 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Boxcar Bertha is a Bonnie and Clyde-like yarn set
during the Depression. The title character, played by Barbara Hershey,
links up with union organizer David Carradine after the death of her
father. Running afoul of anti-union forces, Bertha and Carradine are
forced into a life of crime. Whereas Bonnie and Clyde robbed banks,
Boxcar Bertha's specialty is trains.
Filming Locations: Filmed with a 24-day shoot on a budget of
$600,000 in Reader, Arkansas. The 2-6-2 #108, built in 1920 by Baldwin,
is now owned by the Blacklands Railroad in Texas. Some of the railroad
equipment was out of sync with the Depression-era setting. For example,
the 2-8-0 steam locomotive #1702 (now owned by the Great Smoky Mountains
Railroad in North Carolina) was built by Baldwin in 1942 for the U.S.
Army.
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Breakheart Pass (1975)
Cast: Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland,
Charles Durning
Director: Tom Gries
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 95 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.5 (of 10)
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Synopsis: At the height of the frontier era, a locomotive races
through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote Army
post. But one by one, the passengers are being murdered. Their only hope
is John Deakin (Charles Bronson), a mysterious prisoner-in-transit who must
fight for his life - and the lives of everyone on the train - as he
uncovers a deadly secret that explodes in a torrent of shocking
revelations, explosive brawls, and blazing gun battles.
Filming Locations: Filmed on the Camas Prairie Railroad
(Lewiston, Idaho), using Great Western Railway 2-8-0 Consolidated Steam
Locomotive #75. This engine later pulled excursion trains at the Heber
Valley Railroad in Heber City, Utah, where it is now undergoing
restoration.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Cast: William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, Sessue
Hayakawa,
James Donald, Geoffrey Horne
Director: David Lean
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 167 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.4 (of 10) - Ranked in Top 100 Films of All
Time
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Synopsis: Based on the 1943 building of a railway bridge to link
Thailand and Burma, the story centers on a Japanese prison camp isolated
deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, where the remorseless Colonel
Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) has been charged with building the bridge for
the Japanese. His clash of wills with a British prisoner, the
charismatic Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), escalates into a duel of
honor, Nicholson defying his captor's demands to win concessions for his
troops. How the two officers reach a compromise, and Nicholson becomes
obsessed with building that bridge, provides the story's thematic spine;
the parallel movement of a team of commandos dispatched to stop the
project, led by a British major (Jack Hawkins) and guided by an American
escapee (William Holden), supplies the story's suspense and forward
momentum.
Filming Locations: Filmed entirely on location in Sri Lanka (then
Ceylon). The 400-foot wood bridge created for the film took more than
six months to complete using 25 elephants and hundreds of native
workers. The locomotive in the crash was built in the 1890s and operated
in India prior to purchase for the film. A diesel engine was used at the
rear of the train to ensure all four coaches followed the steam engine
off the bridge.
The destruction of the bridge as depicted in the film is entirely
fictional. In reality, two bridges were built -- a temporary wooden
bridge and a permanent steel bridge a few months later. Both bridges
were used for two years until they were destroyed by Allied warplanes in
June 1945. After the war, the steel bridge was rebuilt by Japan and is
still in use today.
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Brief Encounter (1945)
Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce
Carey, Cyril Raymond
Director: David Lean
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 86 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.3 (of 10) - Ranked in Top 150 Films of All
Time
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Synopsis: Sentimental yet down-to-earth and set in pre-World War
II England, the film follows British housewife Laura Jesson (Celia
Johnson), who is on her way home, but catches a cinder in her eye. By
chance, she meets Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard), who removes it for
her. The two talk for a few minutes and strike immediate sparks, but
they end up catching different trains. However, both return to the
station once a week to meet and, as the film progresses, they grow
closer, sharing stories, hopes, and fears about their lives, marriages,
and children.
Filming Locations: Train and platform scenes were filmed at the
railway station in Carnforth, Lancashire, UK, then a junction on the
London, Midland & Scottish Railway.
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Broadway Limited (1941)
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Victor McLaglen, Marjorie Woodworth, Zasu
Pitts, Patsy Kelly, George E. Stone,
Leonid Kinsky
Director: Gordon Douglas
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 75 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The whole story unfolds on a Chicago-to-Manhattan
express train; among the passengers are Hollywood starlet April
(Marjorie Woodworth), her producer Ivan (Leonid Kinskey) and her
wisecracking secretary (Patsy Kelly). Hoping to stir up publicity for
April, Patsy and Ivan conspire to adopt a baby for their client. Trouble
is, the authorities are convinced that the child has been kidnapped,
causing no end of trouble for such innocent bystanders as engineer Mike
(Victor McLaglen), bookish young doctor Harvey North (Dennis O'Keefe),
and a garrulous clubwoman (Zasu Pitts).
Filming Locations: Features a number of Pennsylvania Railroad
scenes on "the broad way" between New York and Chicago, including PRR K4
Pacific steam locomotive #3768 with a matching passenger train. Also
included is PRR 4-4-0 American steam locomotive #1223. The 1223 later
operated on the Strasburg Railroad, a tourist railroad in the Amish
farmlands of eastern Pennsylvania, and is now preserved at the Railroad
Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. We also see Pennsy's
GG1 on electrified track east of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Bullet Train (1975)
Cast: Ken Takakura, Sonny Chiba, Kei Yamamoto, Eiji Go
Director: Junya Sato
Format: Japanese, Color, Mono
Runtime: 152 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.0 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Criminals have hidden a bomb on a Shinkansen train
barreling through the Japanese countryside. The bomb is set to explode
if the train’s speed drops below a certain level. With the end of the
line somewhere ahead and a very large number of increasingly agitated
passengers on board, somehow that bomb must be found and defused. This
concept later served as the basis of the American action film Speed.
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Burning Train (1980)
Cast: Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Jeetendra
Director: Ravi Chopra
Format: Hindi, Color, Mono
Runtime: 142 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.0 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Vinod Verma, an employee of the Indian Railways, has a
dream of building the fastest train in India. When the Railway Board
finally approves his prototype for the Super Express, an embittered
colleague seeks revenge.
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Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid (1969)
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother
Martin,
Henry Jones, Jeff Corey, George Furth
Director: George Roy Hill
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 110 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.2 (of 10) - Ranked in Top 200 Films of All
Time
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Synopsis: Paul Newman plays the legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy as
an eternal optimist and self-styled visionary, conjuring dreams of banks
just ripe for the picking all over the world. Robert Redford is his more
levelheaded partner, the sharpshooting Sundance Kid. The film basically
begins as a freewheeling story about robbing trains but soon becomes a
chase as a relentless posse - always seen at a great distance like some
remote authority - forces Butch and Sundance into the hills and,
finally, Bolivia.
Filming Locations: Filmed on the Rio Grande narrow gauge lines
north and east of Durango, Colorado, featuring K-28 Mikados 473 and 478.
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Canadian Pacific (1949)
Cast: Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, J. Carroll Naish, Nancy Olson
Director: Edwin Marin
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 94 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.8 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Canadian Pacific Railroad and the savage untamed
wilderness go head-to-head in a frontier tale of sabotage, love, and
revenge as land surveyor Tom Andrews attempts to bring British Columbia
to the rest of the world. Aided by his trusty sidekick Dynamite Dawson,
Tom and a gang of yard boys must battle mad trappers, Native Americans,
and the wild Canadian unknown.
Filming Locations: Filmed on location in the Canadian Rockies.
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The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Cast: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson,
Lionel Stander, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 129 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: When a plague-infected terrorist, fleeing from the
police, exposes the 1,000 riders of the Geneva to Stockholm Express,
Colonel MacKenzie (Burt Lancaster) is called in to handle the situation.
He locates a doctor aboard the train, Jonathan Chamberlain (Richard
Harris) who, with his wife (Sophia Loren), finds the fugitive. They
attempt to transfer him to a hovering helicopter, but fail, and the
terrorist dies. To prevent the spread of the plague, Colonel MacKenzie
directs the train to the Cassandra Crossing where it will plunge into
oblivion, killing all aboard. At Nuremberg, the train is pumped with
oxygen and the stricken passengers begin to recover. Dr. Chamberlain
argues that they can be spared, but Colonel MacKenzie refuses, and as
the train rushes toward the collapsing Cassandra Crossing bridge,
Chamberlain struggles to disconnect the cars and save the passengers
from their appointment with doom.
Filming Locations: The Garabit Viaduct, an active
railroad bridge spanning the Truy re River in France, was
filmed to represent the condemned "Cassandra Crossing." The viaduct was
built from 1880 to 1884 by Gustave Eiffel, who later constructed the
famous Eiffel tower.
The train station at the beginning of the film, identified as Geneva,
was actually filmed at Basel, Switzerland. Exterior scenes of the train
were filmed in Italy, France, and Switzerland with multiple electric
and diesel locomotives. Interior shots were filmed at a studio in Rome,
Italy.
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Caught on a Train (1980)
Cast: Peggy Ashcroft, Michael Kitchen, Wendy Raebeck, Michael
Sheard
Director: Peter Duffell
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 80 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.9 (of 10)
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(out-of-print)
Synopsis: An overnight train trip through Europe becomes a
profoundly unsettling odyssey for a young English businessman in this
award-winning BBC drama. Peter (Michael Kitchen) boards the
Ostend-Vienna express on his way to an important meeting and is
delighted to meet a potential companion, a free-spirited young American
(Wendy Raebeck) traveling alone. Already crowded, their compartment is
overrun by the arrival of an imperious Viennese dowager, Frau Messner
(Peggy Ashcroft). This vestige of Old Europe becomes Peter’s nemesis, by
turns infuriating and fascinating him, while his relationship with the
young American takes an unexpected course.
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Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Cast: V clav Neck r, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodsk , Vladim r
Valenta
Director: Jir Menzel
Format: Czech, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 93 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.0 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The 1966 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film,
"Closely Watched Trains" is a charming look at the life of a young train
conductor (V clav Neck r) during the German occupation of
Czechoslovakia. He is ineptly led into an erotic encounter with a
beautiful girl and fails to perform. But this unlikely hero takes a
stand when his village is threatened by the occupying German Army.
Filming Locations: The fictional station of Kostomlaty is the
actual depot in Lodenice, a small town in south-central Czech Republic.
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Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
(1996)
Cast: Peter Alexander, Henry Gibson, Michael Stipe, John Diehl
Director: Christopher Munch
Format: English, Black & White, Matrix Surround
Runtime: 85 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.0 (of 10)
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Synopsis: This winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the
Sundance Film Festival tells the story of John Lee (Peter Alexander),
grandson to a Chinese railroad laborer, who holds idealistic visions of
saving the Yosemite Valley Railroad from bankruptcy with help from
long-time rail employees (Michael Stipe of R.E.M. and Henry Gibson of
Magnolia).
Filming Locations: Sierra Railroad #3 was lettered as Yosemite
Valley #27 for the film. Static scenes were shot at the Railtown 1897
roundhouse, with some office scenes at the Nevada Northern Railway.
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The Commuter (2018)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks,
Sam Neill
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Format: English, Color, Dolby Atmos
Runtime: 105 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.3 (of 10)
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Synopsis: During his daily commute from Manhattan to Upstate New
York, a cop-turned-insurance salesman (Liam Neeson) is approached by a
mysterious woman (Vera Farmiga) who tells him that he must locate a
passenger who's carrying something dangerous. If he fails, everyone
aboard the train, as well as his family at home, will be killed.
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Creep (2004)
Cast: Franka Potente, Vas Blackwood
Director: Christopher Smith
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 85 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.5 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Heading home late at night, Kate (Franka Potente) falls
asleep at a London Underground station. She awakens to find herself
trapped in the station with all exits locked. While being attacked by a
co-worker who has followed her, a mysterious unseen creature drags him
away and kills him. This begins a terrifying ordeal, as Kate attempts to
escape through a dark labyrinth of subway tunnels.
Filming Locations: Filmed at various locations in the London
Underground, including Charing Cross and Aldwych stations.
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Crossed Signals (1926)
Cast: Helen Holmes, Henry Victor, Georgie Chapman, William Lowery
Director: J.P. McGowan Format: Black & White, Silent
Runtime: 52 minutes IMDB User Rating: 6.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A federal agent (Henry Victor) is sent to a small town
to bust up a counterfeiting ring headquartered in the local railway
station. The counterfeiters have framed the manager (Helen Holmes) and
she must work with the agent to clear her name and get the goods on the
real crooks.
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Danger Lights (1930)
Cast: Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, Jean Arthur, Hugh Herbert
Director: George B. Seitz
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 74 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.0 (of 10)
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Synopsis: When an engaged woman falls in love with a handsome
hobo, life gets complicated for the old railroad supervisor who is set
on marrying her. Wonderfully detailed, this film features several
classic trains and railways from the 1920s.
Filming Locations: Filmed on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific
Railroad, principally at Miles City and Sixteen Mile Canyon, Montana.
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The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Cast: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Anjelica
Huston
Director: Wes Anderson
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 91 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Francis (Owen Wilson) has invited his brothers, Jack
(Jason Schwartzman) and Peter (Adrien Brody), to join him on a train
trip for a spiritual quest through India. The brothers have been
estranged since their father's sudden death, and each is now embroiled
in his own personal drama. Jack is toyed with by his two-timing
girlfriend, Peter's wife is about to give birth, and Francis recently
survived a car crash that nearly killed him. As the train travels across
India, the brothers try to reconnect, but mainly end up arguing and
sharing pharmaceuticals. Francis admits that the real reason he lured
them there is because he wants them to visit their mother (Anjelica
Huston), so they travel on to meet her at a convent in the Himalayas.
Filming Locations: Filmed at India's Northwestern Railways inside
a moving train between Jodhpur and Jaisalmer through the Thar desert.
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Death Train (2006)
Cast: Arnold Vosloo, Mathis Landwehr, Stefan Bieker, Ken Bones
Director: Diethard K ster
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 104 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 4.4 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A relentless secret society known as "Pugnus Dei"
attempts to recruit a former solder by any means necessary in this
white-knuckle action thriller starring The Mummy's Arnold Vosloo.
Their target has been traumatized, but nothing he can say or do will
prevent the nefarious order from realizing their goal. Time is running
out fast, and when the cornered soldier realizes that he has no choice
but to fight, the stage is set for a rumble that will send shockwaves
reverberating across the globe.
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Death Train (2003)
Cast: Bryan Genesse, Bentley Mitchum, Tarri Markell
Director: Yossi Wein
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 2.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A band of armed, escaped convicts has taken over a
passenger train in the Mexican countryside. Holding the passengers at
gunpoint, the runaway train hurtles toward a deadly impact. Meanwhile,
agent Ryan (Bryan Genesse) frantically engages in a game of
cat-and-mouse with the hijackers, knowing that he is the only thing
standing between the criminals and the loss of dozens of innocent
people.
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Denver & Rio Grande
(1952)
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger, Laura Elliot
Director: Byron Haskin
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 89 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.6 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Jim Vesser (O'Brien) is responsible for building the
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad across the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.
Standing in his way is the ruthless McCabe (Hayden) who's trying to lay
his Canyon City & San Juan Railroad tracks first. The conflict between
the men turns into guerilla warfare between the two railroads.
Filming Locations: Filmed on location at the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad (now Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad) between Durango
and Silverton, Colorado. D&RGW steam locomotives #268, 319, and 345
(painted as a double for 268) were used in the film. The 319 and 345
were wrecked for the head-on crash scene.
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Derailed (2002)
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Tomas Arana, Laura Harring
Director: Bob Misiorowski
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 89 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 3.5 (of 10)
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Synopsis: On a hijacked train holding hostages and high-tech
bio-weapons, Agent Kristoff (Van Damme) becomes a one man army to derail
the terrorists and save the lives of everyone on board. Loaded with
spectacle, Derailed features car chases, shootouts,
explosions, a train collision, hand-to-hand combat, and Van Damme riding
a motorcycle on top of the train.
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Detonator aka Alistair MacLean's Death
Train (1993)
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Patrick Stewart, Alexandra Paul, Ted
Levine, Christopher Lee
Director: David Jackson
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 98 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.3 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A German scientist has aided an ex-Soviet general in
constructing a nuclear weapon which is now in the possession of an
American mercenary, heading across Europe in a hijacked train. Malcolm
Philpott, a member of UNACO (United Nations Anti Crime Organization),
must use a team of agents to stop this death train at all costs.
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Dynamite Denny (1932)
Cast: Jay Wilsey, William V. Mong, Matthew Betz, Blanche Mehaffey
Director: Frank R. Strayer
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 52 minutes
IMDB User Rating: Not Rated
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Synopsis: Railroad engineer 'Dynamite' Denny (Jay Wilsey) refuses
to participate in a strike and is blacklisted by the union. The railroad
president (William V. Mong) disguises himself as a locomotive fireman to
find the source of labor unrest. When the union leader (Matthew Betz)
goes after the railroad president, it's up to Dynamite to save him.
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El Ultimo Tren (2002)
Cast: H ctor Alterio, Federico Luppi, Gast n Pauls, Pepe Soriano
Director: Diego Arsuaga
Format: Spanish, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 93 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.9 (of 10)
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(out-of-print)
Synopsis: An ambitious business man (Gast n Pauls) wants to sell
locomotive #33 to a company in Hollywood. A group of elderly men known
as "The Friends of the Rails" believe that doing so would cost Uruguay a
part of its heritage, so they devise a plan to steal the train. The
escapade takes the train all across the country, exhibiting Uruguay's
vibrant landscape and varied climate, as well as revealing many
abandoned towns and train stations.
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End of the Line (1987)
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Wilford Brimley, Levon Helm, Mary Steenburgen,
Henderson Forsythe
Director: Jay Russell
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 105 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.6 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Two Southern railroad workers, Will Haney (Wilford
Brimley) and his friend Leo Pickett (Levon Helm), steal a locomotive and
drive it to Chicago to protest the closing of a station in Clifford,
Arkansas. The duo gathers encouragement at every hamlet along the
way as entire towns come out to lend support for the cause. The company
tries to use the rural rubes to their promotional advantage, but Haney
and Pickett take a stand and win an audience with aging company
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Europa (1991)
Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Max von Sydow
Director: Lars von Trier
Format: English, Color, Dolby
Runtime: 112 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.6 (of 10)
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Synopsis: An American of German descent arrives in post-war
Germany 1945. His uncle gets him a job on the Zentropa train line as a
sleeping car conductor. The American's wish is to be neutral to the
ongoing purges of loyalists by the Allied forces and do what he can to
help a hurting country, but he finds himself being used by both the
Americans and the influential family that owns the railroad. After
falling in love with the railroad magnate's daughter, he finds that he
can't remain neutral and must make some difficult choices. |
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587: The Great Train
Robbery (2004)
Cast: Ran Burns, Nicholas Abeel, Ariadne Baker-Dunn, Roger
Schmelzer
Director: Dan T. Hall
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 80 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.6 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Alex discovers a fully-functional steam locomotive,
"The 587," destined for the scrap heap. He and his sister Molly devise a
plan to rescue the antique engine with the help of an old engineer,
Russel, his dog, Sparky, and kids from the neighborhood. |
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The French Connection
(1971)
Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco
Director: William Friedkin
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 104 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman), a brutally pushy New York
City narcotics detective, is a dauntless crime fighter and Vietnam-era
"pig," a reckless vulgarian whose antics get innocent people killed.
Loosely based upon an actual investigation that led to what was then the
biggest heroin seizure in U.S. history, the picture traces the efforts
of Doyle and his partner (Roy Scheider) to close the pipeline pumping
Middle Eastern smack into the States through the French port of
Marseilles.
Filming Locations: The subway chase was filmed over five weeks on
New York's elevated West End Line (now used by the D train) in the
Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. From the Bay 50th Street station near
Coney Island, Hackman commandeers a car and follows a Manhattan-bound
train for 26 blocks until it hits a stopped train just beyond the 62nd
Street station. The elevated train's lead cars are 4572 and 4573, two of
400 model R42 cars built by the St. Louis Car Co., 1969-70. The trainset
seen in the movie is lettered for the N line, even though the chase
takes place on what was then the B line and now the D. The MTA allowed
filming on the center (express) track of the three-track elevated line
between 10am and 3pm when regular rush-hour express trains weren't
running. The scene in which drug kingpin Fernando Rey evades Hackman on
the 42nd Street Shuttle was filmed over two days in the shuttle's Grand
Central Station and includes car 6609 (one of 400 R17 cars built by St.
Louis Car Co., 1955-56) which is now preserved at the New York Transit
Museum.
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The Ghost Train (1941)
Cast: Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison
Director: Walter Forde
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 85 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.2 (of 10)
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Synopsis: This is the third remake of a popular British
comedy/thriller about travelers stranded at a desolate train station who
are startled by the appearance of a phantom train, actually part of a
very real smuggling conspiracy.
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
Cast: Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, Martin Balsam, David
Carradine, Tina Louise, Douglas Fowley
Director: Burt Kennedy
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: In this comic western, Flagg (Robert Mitchum) is a
veteran marshal forced to retire by the pompous Mayor Wilker (Martin
Balsam). McKay (George Kennedy) is a wily gunslinger. The two combine
forces to stop a young band of outlaws from robbing the train when it
pulls into the station. Flagg warns the mayor of the upcoming attempt
but is not taken seriously by the town politician. McKay and Flagg ride
out to warn the train of the impending crime, which finds McKay facing
members of his own gang in a traditional western showdown.
Filming Locations: Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad in Chama,
New Mexico
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Grand Central Murder
(1942)
Cast: Van Heflin, Cecilia Parker, Virginia Grey, Patricia Dane
Director: S. Sylvan Simon
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 73 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.6 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Who killed showgirl Mida King (Dane) in a private
railway car in New York's Grand Central Station? The suspect list is
plenty: Marc, the rich boy who loved her? His spurned fianc e? Her
gangster ex-boyfriend Turk? In this witty and fun mystery, it is up to
private eye "Rocky" Custer (Heflin) to piece together the puzzle of who
went far enough in their anger to murder Mida. While waiting for the
coroner to release the exact cause of her death, the story unfolds in a
series of flashbacks to reveal a complex and intriguing web.
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The Great K&A Train Robbery (1926)
Cast: Tom Mix, Dorothy Dwan, Will Walling, Harry Grip, Carl
Miller
Director: Lewis Seiler
Format: Black & White, Silent
Runtime: 53 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.4 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Detective Tom Gordon (Tom Mix) investigates a series of
train robberies in this fast-paced, stunt-driven film. Mix poses as a
masked outlaw in order to infiltrate the outlaw gang behind the
robberies, only to discover that their leader is the secretary (Carl
Miller) to the railroad president (William Walling). Along the way, the
hero falls in love with the president's daughter (Dorothy Dwan).
Filming Locations: Filmed on location at Glenwood Canyon,
Colorado.
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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
Cast: Frankie Howerd, Dora Bryan, George Cole, Reg Varney, Ramond Huntley, Richard Wattis
Director: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.5 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Comedian Frankie Howerd plays the head of a
train-robbery gang who cleverly hides the loot from their biggest haul
in a deserted old mansion. The gang waits seven years for the statute of
limitations to run out, then returns to the mansion to dig up their $7
million booty. Unfortunately for the crooks, the mansion has been
converted into the new site for St. Trinian's School for Girls.
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The Great Train Robbery (1979)
Cast: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Wayne Sleep, Alan
Webb,
Lesley-Anne Down
Director: Michael Crichton
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 110 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The Great Train Robbery is a dramatization of the
famous first hold-up of a moving train in 1855 England. The conspirators
in this undertaking are Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), Agar (Donald
Sutherland) and Clean Willy (Wayne Sleep). Pierce is the brains, Clean
Willy the brawn, and safecracker Agar provides the finesse. The scheme
involves stealing a shipment of gold bars intended to be used in the
payroll for the Army in the Crimean War.
Filming Locations: Mostly filmed in Ireland, including the
railway line between Mullingar and Athlone. J15 class 0-6-0 steam
locomotives #184 & #186 were used from the Railway Preservation Society
of Ireland.
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The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Cast: Morgan Jones, Tom London, Gilbert M. Anderson, A.C. Abadie
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Format: Black & White, Silent
Runtime: 12 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.5 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A group of four men assault a train station clerk, then
rob a train where they take the money and shoot a passenger. Once the
clerk is discovered tied up at the station, the sheriff and his men
begin a hunt for the bandits. This 1903 film uses simple editing
techniques (each scene is a single shot) and the story is mostly linear
(with only a few "meanwhile" moments) but it represents a significant
step in movie making, being one of the first "narrative" movies.
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The Harvey Girls (1946)
Cast: Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Angela Lansbury, Preston Foster
Director: George Sidney
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 101 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: On a train trip west to become a mail order bride,
Susan Bradley (Judy Garland) meets a cheery crew of young women. They're
traveling west to open a Harvey House restaurant at a remote whistle
stop to provide good cooking and wholesome company for railway
travelers. When Susan and her bashful suitor find romance daunting,
Susan joins the Harvey Girls instead.
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Horror Express (1973)
Cast: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Telly Savalas
Director: Eugenio Mart n
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.3 (of 10)
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Synopsis: This horror science-fiction thriller, a cult favorite,
takes place in 1907. Professor Caxton (Christopher Lee), a fossil-hunter
has discovered some sort of pre-human creature frozen in ancient
Manchurian ice. He is traveling to London with his find on the
Trans-Siberian Railway and is horrified to discover that his frozen man
is missing, and corpses and zombies are appearing all over the train. It
turns out that the frozen specimen is an alien with some unusual powers.
The combined forces of Professor Caxton, his rival Dr. Wells (Peter
Cushing), and a Cossack captain (Telly Savalas) are needed to save the
world from this monstrous being.
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How the West Was Won
(1962)
Cast: Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Henry Fonda
Directors: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 162 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.0 (of 10)
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Synopsis: This horror science-fiction thriller, a cult favorite,
takes place in 1907. Professor Caxton (Christopher Lee), a fossil-hunter
has discovered some sort of pre-human creature frozen in ancient
Manchurian ice. He is traveling to London with his find on the
Trans-Siberian Railway and is horrified to discover that his frozen man
is missing, and corpses and zombies are appearing all over the train. It
turns out that the frozen specimen is an alien with some unusual powers.
The combined forces of Professor Caxton, his rival Dr. Wells (Peter
Cushing), and a Cossack captain (Telly Savalas) are needed to save the
world from this monstrous being.
Filming Locations: The "Gold City" train station and runaway
train were filmed at and near Perkinsville, Arizona on what is now the
Verde Canyon Railroad. Virginia & Truckee 4-4-0 steam locomotive #11,
built by Baldwin in 1872 and sold to MGM Studios in the 1930s, is now at
the Old Tucson Studios theme park.
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Human Desire (1954)
Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar
Buchanan
Director: Fritz Lang
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 91 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: In this remake of the classic La B te Humaine (listed
above among the "Top 10" train movies), Carl Buckley (Crawford) is fired
from his job as railroad supervisor. He persuades his seductive wife
Vicki (Grahame) to pay a visit to an important railroad customer to
attempt to get his job back. Buckley suspects that his wife has done
more than just talk with the rich old magnate and jealously stalks him,
finally stabbing him to death in a train compartment. Train engineer
Jeff Warren (Ford) observed Vicki near the murder scene but protects
her. The two begin an affair which is soon exposed, and Vicki starts
scheming for Warren to kill her increasingly drunk and violent husband.
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The Hurricane Express (1932)
Cast: John Wayne, Tully Marshall, Conway Tearle, Shirley Grey,
J. Farrell MacDonald
Director: J.P. McGowan, Armand Schaefer
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 78 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.6 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Pilot Larry Baker (John Wayne) makes an unscheduled
landing in a vain attempt to prevent a train collision that kills his
father. As a result, he is fired for disobeying orders. His mission now
is to find out who was responsible for the wreck of The Hurricane
Express and deliver justice for the death of his father.
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The Iron Horse (1924)
Cast: James Gordon, Winston Miller, Cyril Chadwick, George
O'Brien,
Madge Bellamy, Peggy
Cartwright, Charles Edward Bull
Director: John Ford
Format: Black & White, Silent
Runtime: 149 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
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Synopsis: David Brandon (James Gordon) is a surveyor in the Old
West who dreams that one day the entire North American continent will be
linked by railroads. However, to make this dream a reality, a clear
trail must be found through the Rocky Mountains. With his boy Davy
(Winston Miller), David sets out to find such a path, but he's ambushed
by a tribe of Indians led by a white savage, Peter Jesson (Cyril
Chadwick); while the boy manages to escape, David is killed. Years
later, the adult Davy Brandon (George O'Brien) still believes in his
father's dream of a transcontinental railroad, and legislation signed by
President Abraham Lincoln has made it an official mandate.
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Iron Road (2008)
Cast: Sun Li, Luke Macfarlane, Peter O'Toole, Sam Neill,
Charlotte Sullivan
Director: David Wu
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 181 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.5 (of 10)
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Synopsis: This Canada/China co-production miniseries chronicles
the Chinese laborers of the Canadian Pacific Railway during the 1880s. A
poor but feisty Chinese woman (Sun Li), disguised as a boy, joins a
railway crew in the Rocky Mountains. While searching for her long-lost
father, she falls in love with the son of the railroad tycoon (Luke
Macfarlane).
Filming Locations: Filmed at Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada,
including Canadian National 2-8-0 steam locomotive #2141 on the Kamloops
Heritage Railway.
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It Happened To Jane (1959)
Cast: Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Steve Forrest, Teddy
Rooney
Director: Richard Quine
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 97 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.6 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Doris Day stars in a true-to-type performance as Jane
Osgood, a spunky, pretty, wronged widow with two children. She manages
her own lobster business, and the railroad has just trashed a shipment,
killing them off before they could ever be properly boiled to death for
someone's dinner. Jane commissions her lawyer (and potential romantic
partner) George Denham (Jack Lemmon) to take on the railroad and its
nefarious owner, Harry Foster Malone (Ernie Kovacs). Thus, the battle
between the unjustly treated Jane and the arrogant railroad boss begins.
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Jesse James (1939)
Cast: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott,
Henry Hull
Director: Henry King
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 106 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.2 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The legend of Jesse James stars Tyrone Power as the
most infamous bandit in the history of the West. Jesse James was a young
Missouri farmer forced outside the law after ruthless agents for the
transcontinental railroad kill his ailing mother and steal his family's
land. Together with his brother Frank (Henry Fonda), Jesse forms a gang
of masked outlaws to strike back at the railroad company and the banks
that have joined forces to swindle the oppressed farmers.
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Kansas Pacific (1953)
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon, Tom Fadden, Reed Hadley
Director: Ray Nazarro
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 73 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: John Nelson (Sterling Hayden), a military officer, is
charged with the task of halting sabotage of the Kansas Pacific Railroad
at the hands of Southern allies as it is extended west in the
pre-dawning of the Civil War.
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Kontroll (2004)
Cast: S ndor Cs nyi, Zolt n Mucsi, Csaba Pindroch, S ndor Bad r
Director: Nimr d Antal
Format: Hungarian, Color, DTS
Runtime: 106 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.6 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The Budapest subway system, the world’s oldest, is a
dark labyrinthine netherworld as vast and various as the city above.
Hordes of people pass through on their way to better, brighter places.
But there are some who spend most of their lives underground -- the
ticket inspectors or "controllers" who are assigned in teams to various
sections of the system and whose thankless job is to ensure that no
passengers ride without paying. Deployed by those in control - unseen
authority figures who monitor the trains and travelers on massive grids
and screens - these inspector teams are a much-despised lot.
Filming Locations: Filmed entirely in the Budapest Metro.
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La Ilusi n viaja en tranv a (1954)
Cast: Lilia Prado, Carlos Navarro, Fernando Soto, Agustin Isunza
Director: Luis Bunuel
Format: Spanish, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.2 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Confronted with the unfortunate news that their
favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two
Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last
spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an
all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are
confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that
prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar.
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The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May
Whitty, Cecil Parker, Linden Travers,
Naunton Wayne, Basil Radford
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 97 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.2 (of 10) - Ranked in Top 200 Films of All
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Synopsis: Young Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) heads home on
a train after spending the holidays in the Balkans. Iris becomes friends
with a kindly old lady, Miss Froy (Dame May Whitty) after Iris gets hit
in the head with a flowerpot meant for Miss Froy. On the train,
recovering from the blow, Iris falls asleep. When she awakens, Miss Froy
has vanished, replaced by someone else in Miss Froy's clothing. Iris
talks to the other passengers, a bizarre collection of eccentrics who
think that Iris is crazy for insisting on there even being a Miss Froy —
everyone denies having ever seen the old woman. Finally, Iris finds a
young musician, Gilbert (Michael Redgrave), who believes her and the two
proceed to search the train for clues to Miss Froy's disappearance.
Filming Locations: Train scenes filmed at the Longmoor Military
Railway in Hampshire, UK.
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Last Passenger (2013)
Cast: Dougray Scott, Kara Tointon, Iddo Goldberg
Director: Omid Nooshin
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 97 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.7 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A single father races to avert a disaster after
becoming stranded on a speeding train with no brakes in this
adrenaline-charged thriller from first-time director Omid Nooshin. It's
late, and exhausted doctor Lewis Shaler (Dougray Scott) has just caught
the last train from London with his young son Max. Although the sudden
appearance of a pretty stranger (Kara Tointon) finds tired Lewis perking
up, his night takes a turn for the worse when he realizes that the
conductor has disappeared and the brakes have been cut. Before long,
Lewis has learned that a dangerous sociopath with a death wish has
decided to go out in a fury of speed and fire, and he's determined to
take as many innocent passengers with him as possible.
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The Lost Express (1925)
Cast: Helen Holmes, Jack Mower, Henry Barrows, Fred Church
Director: J.P. McGowan Format: Black & White, Silent
Runtime: 48 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.3 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Outraged that his daughter is suing her husband for a
divorce, railroad magnate John P. Morgan (Barrows) takes off on his
private train with his granddaughter, baby Alice Standish, in tow,
determined that neither of the estranged couple shall gain custody. His
plan is derailed when shotgun wielding thugs climb aboard, throw the
conductor off, and hijack the train. Learning of the lost express,
fearless railroad agent Helen Martin (Holmes) swings into action,
determined to find the runaway train and rescue little Alice and her
grandfather.
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Matewan (1987)
Cast: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham
Director: John Sayles
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 135 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.8 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A labor union organizer (Chris Cooper) comes to an
embattled mining community brutally dominated by the mining company.
When the miners strike and the company attempts to evict them from their
homes, a violent battles ensues.
Filming Locations: Nickel Plate #765 (built 24 years after the
film's setting) was filmed in Thurmond, West Virginia.
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Midnight Limited (1940)
Cast: John 'Dusty' King, Marjorie Reynolds, George Cleveland
Director: Howard Bretherton
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 61 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.2 (of 10)
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Synopsis: An elusive criminal is at work aboard the night train
from New York to Montreal, leaving his victims bound, gagged, and
penniless. After the phantom kills his best agent, an ace railroad
detective goes undercover. Posing as a rich traveler, he prepares for a
final confrontation with the phantom.
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Midnight Meat Train (2008)
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Vinnie Jones, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, Roger Bart
Director: Ry hei Kitamura
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 103 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.2 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Struggling photographer Leon Kauffman's (Bradley
Cooper) obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path
of a serial killer, Mahogany (Vinnie Jones), the subway murderer who
stalks late-night commuters -- ultimately butchering them in the most
gruesome ways imaginable.
Filming Locations: Filmed in the Los Angeles Metro Rail subway,
including the Los Angeles City College station (Santa Monica & Vermont)
and 7th Street/Metro Center station (7th & Flower). A San Pedro
warehouse with an old train platform was filmed as the deserted subway
station beneath the meat plant. Two full-size train cars were brought on
stage in Sun Valley and placed on a rocking gimbal to simulate train
movement.
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Money Train (1995)
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Lopez, Robert
Blake, Chris Cooper, Joe Grifasi
Director: Joseph Ruben
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 103 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.2 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A pair of New York City cops collaborate on a plan to
rob a cash-packed subway train in this action-comedy. Charlie (Woody
Harrelson) and John (Wesley Snipes) are not just co-workers and close
friends but also foster brothers. Because of this family connection, the
reluctant John becomes involved in the more capricious Charlie's
far-fetched scheme to rob the "money train" that collects the subway's
daily grosses. Charlie needs the money for gambling debts, and robbing
the train would have the added benefit of angering Charlie's and John's
harsh, corrupt boss Captain Patterson (Robert Blake). Romantic interest
is provided by a fellow police officer (Jennifer Lopez) who sparks
rivalry between the brothers, but the film's main interest is in the
violent events that surround the attempted heist, which naturally proves
more complicated than planned.
Filming Locations: The subway car used as the money train was a
New York City Subway R22 car modified by the film crew and Coney Island
Overhaul Shops. An early scene of "Wall Street" was filmed at 14th St. -
Union Square station but nearly all other station scenes were filmed on
a 4000' long station platform and tunnel studio set in Los Angeles.
Fifteen subway cars were trucked to the set to film a range of action
scenes.
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Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Cast: Albert Finney, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline
Bisset, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam,
Richard Widmark, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Sidney Lumet
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 127 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the
Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the
Lindbergh kidnapping. In the movie, everyone on board the Orient Express
seems to have concluded that hateful financier Ratchett (Richard Widmark)
was behind the abduction and murder of the infant daughter of a famed
aviatrix. Thus, when Ratchett is himself found murdered, everyone is
suspect. Normally, the police would handle the investigation, but the
train has been stalled by a snowslide halfway between Istanbul and
Paris. Thus, it's up to the insufferable but brilliant Belgian detective
Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney) to activate his "little grey cells" and
determine who's guilty.
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Murder on the Orient
Express (2001)
Cast: Alfred Molina, Meredith Baxter, Peter Strauss
Director: Carl Schenkel
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 100 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.2 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel was updated
from the 1930s to the early 21st century in this made-for-TV remake. The
ineffable, insufferable Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Alfred Molina)
uses his own "little grey cells" to solve the train-compartment murder
of a ruthless American business executive (Peter Strauss). This time
around, however, Poirot is not averse to relying upon computer
technology to speed up his investigation; in the same vein, the murder
victim has been updated (or perhaps, upgraded) from an industrialist to
a software tycoon. Still, Christie's surprise ending (which should be no
surprise at all to fans of the 1974 film) remains intact, as does
Poirot's ultimate decision to let his heart rule his head.
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Murder on the Orient
Express (2017)
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Pen lope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench,
Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Leslie Odom Jr., Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Format: English, Color, Dolby Atmos
Runtime: 114 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.5 (of 10)
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Synopsis: 2017 remake of Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel.
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Murder, She Said (1961)
Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow,
James Robertson Justice
Director: George Pollock
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 86 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Marple (Margaret Rutherford) witnesses a murder being
committed on a speeding train. She informs the authorities, but they
find no evidence of a killing and write off Marple as a doddering
eccentric. Determined to prove that she's not imagining things, Marple
investigates the area around the stretch of railroad track where the
murder occurred. She winds up on the estate of James Robertson-Justice,
disguised as a maid. Many family skeletons are exhumed by Miss Marple
before she proves that she indeed saw a murder and pinpoints the guilty
party.
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Mystery Train (1931)
Cast: Hedda Hopper, Marceline Day, Eddie Fetherstone
Director: Phil Whitman
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 63 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.7 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A jewel heist on the Transcontinental Limited turns
deadly when a group of passengers are trapped in a runaway Pullman car
hurtling down a steep mountain grade. Plenty of thrills and chills
abound as the hero and villain face-off during a climactic fight on the
train.
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The Narrow Margin (1952)
Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon
Gebert, Queenie Leonard, David Clarke
Director: Richard Fleischer
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 71 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Nail-hard detective Walter Brown (Charles McGraw) is
assigned to protect gangster's widow Mrs. Neall (Marie Windsor) as she
rides the train from Chicago to LA, en route to testifying at a grand
jury. There's no love lost between the ill-tempered Neall and Brown,
especially since Brown's partner (Don Beddoe) was killed by mobsters
while shielding Neall from harm. On the train, Brown makes the
acquaintance of a likeable woman (Jacqueline White) and her playful
young son. He also comes in contact with a rather secretive fat man
(Paul Maxey), who may well be a mob assassin.
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Narrow Margin (1990)
Cast: Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James Sikking, J.T. Walsh, M. Emmet Walsh, Susan Hogan,
Nigel Bennett
Director: Peter Hyams
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 99 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.4 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Gene Hackman stars as a LA District Attorney attempting
to take an unwilling murder witness (Anne Archer) back to Los Angeles to
testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape
two deadly hit men sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound
train only to discover that the killers are onboard with them. For the
next 20 hours as the train hurls through the isolated Canadian
wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability
to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.
Filming Locations: The film was shot in British Columbia, where a
"Lac Des Arcs" train station was built along the tracks specifically for
the film. The train consisted of a British Columbia Railway (BC Rail)
SD40-2 diesel and 12 privately owned passenger cars, all painted in VIA
Rail Canada livery to appear as the Toronto-Vancouver Canadian.
The private cars included one dormitory, one baggage car, three coaches
(#521, 524, 550), one dome car (#555), one dining car (#548), another
coach (#540), three sleepers (#558, 564, 544), and a rear dome car
(#597). The primary compartments in the film are A6 in #564, and later
C6 in #558. Some of the distant exterior shots of the train
(specifically two bridge crossings) were filmed using a model train.
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The Navigators (2001)
Cast: Dean Andrews, Thomas Craig, Joe Duttine, Steve Huison, Venn
Tracey
Director: Ken Loach
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 96 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Set in South Yorkshire, the film opens with familiar
British Rail sign being replaced with a shiny new one reading "East
Midland Infrastructure." For a group of men working at a local train
station, this subtle change ends up meaning that their lives have
irrevocably changed. When they learn the grim details of this
privatization, their chummy sense of community begins to splinter and
fall apart. Under the new regime, the customer comes first. While on
paper this sounds great, in reality this new arrangement is implemented
haphazardly, resulting in bitter fighting and political backstabbing.
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Night Train (Ludzie z pociagu)
(1959)
Cast: Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Teresa Szmigiel wna, Zbigniew Cybulski, Helena
Dabrowska
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Format: Polish, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 93 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A mysterious young man (Leon Niemczyk), claiming to be
a doctor, boards the night train. Overcrowded conditions compels the new
passenger to share a sleeping car with a secretive young woman (Lucyna
Winnicka). Neither of these reluctant companions is prone to small talk
-- and both seem to be hiding something. In fact, both seem to be
running away from something. Once we've digested all this, it is
revealed that the police are searching for a murderer.
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Night Train (2009)
Cast: Danny Glover, Leelee Sobieski, Steve Zahn
Director: Brian King
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 83 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.8 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Onboard an overnight train, two passengers (Sobieski
and Zahn) and the conductor (Glover) discover a corpse and a box of
diamonds inside one of the cabins. The three conspire to ditch the body
and split the fortune until greed turns them against one another.
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Night Train to Munich
(1940)
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul von Hernried,
Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
Director: Carol Reed
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.2 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Night Train takes viewers on a World War II-era journey
from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps, as Nazis pursue a Czech
scientist and his daughter (Margaret Lockwood), who are being aided by a
debonair British undercover agent (Rex Harrison).
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North by Northwest (1959)
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Ed Binns, Leo G.
Carroll
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 136 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.6 (of 10) - Ranked in Top 50 Films of All
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Synopsis: Cary Grant plays a Manhattan advertising executive
plunged into a realm of spy (James Mason) and counterspy (Eva Marie
Saint) and variously abducted, framed for murder, chased and in another
signature set piece, crop-dusted. He also holds on for dear life from
the facial features of the Presidents on Mount Rushmore.
Filming Locations: Exterior scenes feature the 20th Century
Limited (specifically car #10006), though the interior shots of dining
and sleeping cars were filmed at an MGM soundstage. Station scenes include
LaSalle Street Station (Chicago) and Grand Central Station (New York
City). The final scene was filmed at the west portal of Southern Pacific
(now Union Pacific) Tunnel #26 in Santa Susana Pass near Los Angeles.
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North West Frontier (1959)
Cast: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid
Hyde-White
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 129 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.0 (of 10)
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Synopsis: When the Moslems attack a British fortress in colonial
India, it is imperative that the local Maharaja's son be taken to
safety. The man for the job is commander Kenneth More, who uses a rusty
old train for that purpose. Among the other fugitives is the boy's
British governess Lauren Bacall and the untrustworthy Herbert Lom. A
cat-and-mouse session between good and bad guys segues into a
heart-pounding chase through the frontier.
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O'Horten (2007)
Cast: Baard Owe, Espen Skj nberg, Ghita N rby, Henny Moan
Director: Bent Hamer
Format: Norwegian, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.7 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Odd Horten (Baard Owe) is a neat, meticulous,
pipe-smoking train conductor, winding up 40 years of service for the
Norwegian railways. But when a man's life has been determined by
timetables and clearly-defined journeys along tracks, how does he spend
his free hours? Starting on the night of his retirement dinner, Odd has
a series of dislocating experiences: a boy insists that Odd sit by his
bedside while he falls asleep; misadventure causes Odd to miss his last
run; he witnesses an arrest; he assists an old man and makes a friend;
he takes a trip with a blindfolded driver; he adopts a dog; he takes
stock late one night at the roundhouse; he revisits his mother's
disappointment in him. How should he live the rest of his life?
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Oh, Mr. Porter (1937)
Cast: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt
Director: Marcel Varnel
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 85 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
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Synopsis: In this British comedy, William Porter (Will Hay) is an
accident-prone railroad employee whose sister and brother-in-law arrange
for him to be made stationmaster at a run-down rail stop in rural
Ireland. Porter meets his new co-workers, aging Jeremiah (Moore
Marriott) and teenaged Albert (Graham Moffatt), and discovers that they
supplement their meager income by boosting baggage from passing trains.
Porter hopes to increase business by fixing up the station, and he
arranges for an excursion by a local football team. Unbeknownst to him,
the footballers are actually criminals, and he's just made British Rail
accomplices in a gun-running ring.
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Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
Cast: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, Gabriele Ferzetti, Frank Wolff
Director: Sergio Leone
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 165 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.8 (of 10) - Ranked in Top 25 Films of All
Time
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Synopsis: Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti), the power-hungry owner of a
railroad company, hires Frank (Henry Fonda), a
gunfighter without a conscience, to kill anyone who stands in the way of
the completion of the railroad. After Frank murders land owner Brett McBain (Frank Wolff), McBain's
widow (Claudia Cardinale) hires two
killers of her own to protect her and gain revenge: a mysterious,
harmonica-playing desperado (Charles Bronson) and his rogue sidekick (Jason Robards).
Filming Locations: Railroad scenes were filmed
in Spain, with additional scenery shots from the Monument
Valley of Utah and Arizona. Most interior filming was done in-studio in
Rome, Italy.
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Operation Wolverine:
Seconds to Spare (2002)
Cast: Antonio Sabato Jr., Kimberley Davies, Kate Beahan
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 100 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 4.6 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Onboard an express train, an assassin has threatened to
gas the passengers with a deadly substance unless he receives a $25
million ransom. With the cops attempting to thwart the madman, they call
former DEA agent Paul Blake (Antonio Sabato, Jr) to intervene.
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Paradise Express (1937)
Cast: Grant Withers, Dorothy Appleby, Arthur Hoyt, Maude Eburne
Director: Joseph Kane
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 53 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.2 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The Paradise Express is a small-time freight service,
struggling for survival against a larger, more streamlined rail company.
Faced with bankruptcy, the owners of the underdog railroad challenge
their competitors to a race, winner take all.
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Perils of the Rail
(1925)
Cast: Helen Holmes, Edward Hearn, Wilfrid North, Lloyd Whitlock
Director: J.P. McGowan
Format: Black & White, Silent
Runtime: 61 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.8 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A section boss for the railroad sets out to catch a
gang of thieves who have been stealing ore shipments from his company's
trains.
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The Phantom Express (1932)
Cast: William Collier Jr., Sally Blane, J. Farrell MacDonald,
Hobart Bosworth
Director: Emory Johnson
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.3 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The Southwestern Pacific Railroad is in doldrums. Three
trains have run off the rails in as many weeks, causing a lot of damage
to the coffers and the reputation of the company. When the third
accident occurs, the management decides to hold an inquiry. Few people
on the board believe the driver Smokey’s (J. Farrel MacDonald)
explanation. Bruce (William Collier) , the son of the railroad
president, volunteers to investigate the cause of the accidents. Posing
as a mechanic, Bruce solves the mystery of the ‘Phantom Express’ just in
time to save the Railroad from falling into the hands of unscrupulous
villains.
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The Polar Express (2004)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Chris Coppola, Michael Jeter, Leslie Zemeckis, Eddie Deezen, Nona Gaye,
Hayden McFarland
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 100 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.7 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The Polar Express revolves around Billy (Hayden
McFarland), who longs to believe in Santa Claus but finds it quite
difficult to do so, what with his family's dogged insistence that all of
it, from the North Pole, to the elves, to the man himself, is all just a
myth. This all changes, however, on Christmas Eve, when a mysterious
train visits Billy in the middle of the night, promising to take him and
a group of other lucky children to the North Pole for a visit with
Santa. The train's conductor (Tom Hanks) along with the other passengers
help turn Billy's crisis in faith into a journey of self-discovery.
Filming Locations: Features Pere Marquette 2-8-4 Berkshire steam
locomotive #1225, owned by the Steam Railroading Institute in Owosso,
Michigan.
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Pride of Africa (1997)
Cast: Robert Powell, Ashley Hayden, Jeremy Crutchley
Director: Herman Binge
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 103 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Kidnapping, romance and intrigue shift this 1930s
period drama into high gear, filmed specially aboard the famous luxury
train called Pride of Africa. While the train waits to leave the
station, thieves sneak aboard and steal passengers' unguarded valuables.
Fearful for the train's reputation, its owner hires local tour guide
David Webb (Robert Powell) to catch the thief and act as security to
ensure the Pride of Africa keeps her good name. As the train gets under
way, unsuspected travelers hatch sinister schemes, leading Webb hot on a
trail of abduction, robbery and possible murder.
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Prison Train (1938)
Cast: Fred Keating, Alexander Leftwich, Dorothy Comingore,
Clarence Muse,
Nestor Paiva, James
Blakely
Director: Gordon Wiles
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 64 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.8 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Frankie Terris (Fred Keating) and Mannie Robbins
(Alexander Leftwich) are the two most powerful gangsters in their city.
Frankie has a young sister, Louise (Dorothy Comingore), whom he has kept
at a boarding school away from the stench of his racketeering. Mannie's
young son, Joe (James Blakely), is also ignorant of his father's
profession. Louise and Joe meet, and Joe tries to make love to her.
Frankie interrupts and, in a fight that follows, kills Joe. Mannie vows
to get Frankie. The latter, sentenced to Alcatraz, fears for Louise's
safety and makes her promise to take a trip abroad.
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The Railroad Man (1956)
Cast: Sylva Koscina, Carlo Giuffr , Edoardo Nevola, Franco
Fantasia
Director: Pietro Germi
Format: Italian, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 115 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: He has a good job working as a railroad man, but Andrea
Marcocci is not happy. An obscure disease haunts him. His daughter
Giulia leaves her husband, seeking shelter in the arms of another man,
who does not love her. Andrea’s good–for-nothing son storms out after
one argument too many with his father. Unable to face these troubles
alone, Andrea starts to drink. Inevitably, the booze interferes with his
work and he causes a serious rail accident. Desperately trying to hold
onto his job, he goes to work on a strike day, further alienating
himself from his friends and colleagues.
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The Railrodder (1965)
Cast: Buster Keaton
Director: Gerald Potterton
Format: Color, Silent
Runtime: 80 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.5 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The great comic genius of the silent era still shines
in these two programs. "Buster Keaton Rides Again" (55 min.) is a
documentary filmed while Keaton was making "The Railrodder." The 1965
documentary provides an absorbing portrait of Keaton relaxing, telling
yarns and plotting the next day's action with considerable flair. In
"The Railrodder" (25 min.), Keaton travels across Canada aboard an open
railway trackspeeder. Perched on his seat, this endearing traveler chugs
nonchalantly past some of Canada's most spectacular landmarks. These
programs are a memorable and intimate view of one of the most
indestructible of slapstick comics.
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Rails and Ties (2007)
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden
Director: Alison Eastwood
Format: English, Color, Dolby
Runtime: 101 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.7 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Tom Stark (Kevin Bacon), a train engineer, is unable to
face his wife’s (Marcia Gay Harden) illness. Then a terrifying railway
collision leaves a little boy orphaned. Tom takes the boy into his home
and – step by step, strength by strength – learns how to bond with the
wife he adores by opening his heart to a boy who needs the security of a
devoted family.
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The Railway Children (1970)
Cast: Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins, William Mervyn, Iain
Cuthbertson, Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett
Director: Lionel Jeffries
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 109 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.5 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Dinah Sheridan plays the mother of three children who
must live in reduced circumstances when her husband (Ian Cuthbertson), a
government official, is arrested on a false charge of treason. The kids
adapt rather well to their new environment, a community located on the
edges of a railway. They befriend a kindly porter (Bernard Cribbins) and
a wealthy gent (William Mervyn), both of whom strive to prove their
father's innocence.
Filming Locations: The film was shot at the Keighley & Worth
Valley Railway, including many scenes at the Oakworth station. Great
Western pannier tank engine #5775, now on display in Oxenhope, was
filmed hauling the train.
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The Railway Children - BBC TV Remake
(2000)
Cast: Jack Blumenau, Clare Thomas, Jemima Rooper, Jenny Agutter, Michael Kitchen, Richard
Attenborough
Director: Catherine Morshead
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 105 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.4 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The Railway Children follows the fortunes of three
resourceful children in turn-of-the-century England. An affluent family,
the Waterburys fall upon difficult times when Mr. Waterbury (Michael
Kitchen) is hauled away by the police for reasons not readily apparent.
Forced to move to a small village, the family is held together by Mrs.
Waterbury (Jenny Agutter), who ekes out a living by selling her stories
to magazines. The three Waterbury siblings — Bobbie (Jemima Rooper),
Peter (Jack Blumenau), and Phyllis (Clare Thomas) — try to help their
mother make ends meet and take to spending time by the railroad, where
they meet a host of eccentric acquaintances.
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The Railway Man (2013)
Cast: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgard, Jeremy
Irvine
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 108 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: In this remarkable autobiography, Eric Lomax (Firth) is
a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and
sent to a POW camp where he is tormented and forced to work on the
Thai-Burma Railway. Decades later, still suffering the trauma of his
wartime experiences, Lomax and his wife Patti (Kidman) discover that the
Japanese interpreter responsible for much of his treatment is still
alive and set out to confront him.
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Raw Meat a.k.a. Death
Line (1973)
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd
Director: Gary Sherman
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 87 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.8 (of 10)
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Synopsis: When a prominent politician and a young woman
vanish inside a London subway station, Scotland Yard's inspector
investigates and makes a horrifying discovery. Not only did a group of
19th-century tunnel workers survive a cave-in, but they lived for years
in a secret underground enclave by consuming the flesh of their own
dead. Now the lone descendant of this grisly tribe has surfaced,
prowling the streets of London for fresh victims and a new mate.
Filming Locations: Filmed at the Aldwych subway station in the
London Underground.
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Red Eye (2005)
Cast: Shin-yeong Jang, Ji-min Kwak, Dong-kyu Lee, Hye-na Kim
Director: Dong-bin Kim
Format: Korean, Color, Dolby
Runtime: 96 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 4.8 (of 10)
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Synopsis: It's Mi-sun's first day as a railroad attendant. Her
first assignment is an overnight trip through Korea and she's
understandably nervous. But it's not the motley group of passengers that
has her feeling uneasy. It's the train itself. It turns out that some of
the cars on the train were involved in a devastating crash 16 years
earlier in which 100 people died. Rumor has it those cars are haunted
and it's not long before Mi-sun starts to experience eerie visions.
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Red Line (2013)
Cast: Nicole Gale Anderson, John Billingsly, Kunal Sharma, Kevin
Sizemore
Director: Robert Kirbyson
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 87 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.0 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A Los Angeles subway train is brought to a slamming
stop, the tunnel partially collapsed, and several people injured. The
survivors must figure out what caused it, and must deal with the greater
danger that soon faces them.
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Red Signals (1927)
Cast: Wallace MacDonald, Earle Williams, Eva Novak, J.P. McGowan
Director: J.P. McGowan
Format: Black & White, Silent
Runtime: 68 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: When a series of train wrecks occur, railroad
superintendent Mark Bryson (Williams) is held responsible, but the real
culprit is a crooked foreman who lusts after Bryson's job. All of this
is proven in due time by the superintendent's indigent brother Lee
(MacDonald) -- who turns out to be a railroad detective in disguise.
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Return of Casey Jones (1933)
Cast: Charles Starrett, Gabby Hayes, Ruth Hall
Director: John P. McCarthy
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 67 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A young boy idolizes famed train engineer Casey Jones
and is devastated when his hero is killed in a train wreck. The boy
grows up to be an engineer like his idol. One day his train loses its
breaks and wrecks, despite his best efforts to save it. He's thrown from
the train when it crashes, leaving many to believe he cowardly jumped.
Can he ever clear his name?
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Santa Fe (1951)
Cast: Randolph Scott, Janis Carter, Jerome Courtland, John
Archer, Peter M. Thompson, Warner
Anderson
Director: Irving Pichel
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 87 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: In this rousing action-packed post-Civil War adventure,
legendary Western hero Randolph Scott stars as Britt Canfield, the
eldest of four brothers who have seen their family's Virginia plantation
stolen by carpetbaggers. With no choice but to start over, Britt accepts
a position to help build the Yankee-funded Santa Fe Railroad. Britt
takes on superstitious Indians, crooked gamblers, vengeful war widows,
and most dangerous of all, his three brothers -- vicious Yankee haters
who'll stop at nothing to prevent the completion of the Santa Fe.
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Shanghai Express a.k.a
Millionaire's Express (1986)
Cast: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Biao Yuen, Rosamund Kwan
Director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
Format: Cantonese, Color, Mono
Runtime: 98 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: This train heist adventure, featuring a cast of martial
arts all-stars, follows competing gangs and their attempts to rob a
luxury train and its wealthy passengers.
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Shanghai Express (1932)
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 80 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.5 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned
that the notorious Shanghai Lil is on board than the fact that a civil
war is happening around them. When Chinese guerillas stop the train, a
British Army doctor is taken hostage. Lil saves him, but can she make
him believe that she hasn't changed from the woman he loved five years
earlier?
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Silver Streak (1976)
Cast: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick
McGoohan,
Ned Beatty
Director: Arthur Hiller
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 114 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.7 (of 10)
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Synopsis: In this wild comedy adventure, rail passenger George
Caldwell (Gene Wilder) finds that a romantic escapade with a sultry secretary
(Jill Clayburgh) puts him in the middle of a Hitchcockian murder plot. Leaping
on and off the train, in and out of roomettes, bars and dining cars,
George teams up with an amiable, small-time crook (Richard Pryor) to defy the
murderer's henchmen, FBI agents, and a host of other outrageous
characters.
Filming Locations: Exterior shots were filmed using
Canadian Pacific Railway FP7 diesel locomotives #4070 and #4067 and a
collection of Canadian Pacific passenger cars (most now used on VIA
Rail's Toronto-Vancouver Canadian train) at locations around
Calgary and Toronto. Although a fictional railroad name "AMRoad" appears
on the train, original color schemes as well as car names and numbers
were not changed. Interior train shots, including sleeping compartments,
were filmed on a soundstage using near-accurate replicas.
The train wreck sequence was filmed using a mock-up engine and station
at Burbank Airport. However, the approach to the crash was filmed using
a Hi-Rail truck on Track #2 at North Western Station (now Ogilvie
Transportation Center) in Chicago. Inclusion of this scene caused Amtrak
to withdraw from the film, pushing much of the filming to Canada.
The film's title Silver Streak was inspired by the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q) Railroad's Pioneer Zephyr,
nicknamed "Silver Streak" for its stainless steel construction and 13
hour and 5 minute speed record between Denver and Chicago in 1934.
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Snakes on a Train (2006)
Cast: A.J. Castro, Julia Ruiz, Giovanni Bejarano, Al Galvez
Director: Peter Mervis
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 91 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 2.5 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A powerful Mayan curse causes snakes to hatch in the
stomach of a young woman, devouring her from the inside out. Her only
chance for survival is to get to Los Angeles to have the curse lifted by
a shaman. With only hours to live, she jumps on a train from Mexico.
Fellow passengers are now trapped aboard, soon to be victims of these
flesh-eating vipers.
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Snowpiercer (2013)
Cast: Chris Evans, Song Kang Ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, John
Hurt,
Ed Harris
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 126 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.0 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A failed climate-change experiment kills all life on
Earth except for a lucky few onboard the Snowpiercer. For 17 years these
survivors travel the globe creating their own economy and class system.
Led by Curtis (Chris Evans), a group of lower-class citizens living in
squalor at the back of the train are determined to get to the front and
spread the wealth.
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Spy Train (1943)
Cast: Richard Travis, Catherine Craig, Chick Chandler, Thelma
White
Director: Harold Young
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 61 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.0 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A train leaves Los Angeles with a Nazi spy, a woman, a
reporter, their respective sidekicks, and a suitcase with a ticking time
bomb somewhere on board.
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The Station Agent (2003)
Cast: Peter Dinklage, Bobby Cannavale, Patricia Clarkson,
Michelle Williams
Director: Thomas McCarthy
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 89 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.8 (of 10)
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Synopsis: In New Jersey, Finbar McBride (Peter Dinklage) is a
four-foot-tall lonely man who chooses to live the life of a hermit in an
abandoned train station following the death of his friend. While he is
there, he unexpectedly meets and befriends a couple of fellow loners.
Troubled Olivia (Patricia Clarkson) is an artist devastated by the loss
of her son and separation from her husband, while carefree and friendly
Joe (Bobby Cannavale) runs a hot dog stand. The three unlikely friends
each deal with their urge to connect compared with their individual need
for isolation.
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Station Jim (2001)
Cast: George Cole, Charlie Creed-Miles, Thomas Sangster, Laura
Fraser, Frank Finlay, Prunella
Scales, Stanley Townsend
Director: John Roberts
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 87 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
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Synopsis: In Victorian England, a performing dog escapes
from his mean master and ends up at a small country railway station.
Named "Jim" by station porter Bob, the little dog quickly becomes a
favorite of the local orphanage children, especially sad young Henry
(Thomas Sangster), who daily waits for the train that will take him
home. When a wicked businessman plots to close the orphanage forever,
Bob and the children fight back in a struggle threatened by bribery,
dognapping and even an assassin who wants to kill the Queen!
Filming Locations: Filmed in several parts of the
Bluebell Railway
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Stop Train 349 (1963)
Cast: Jos Ferrer, Sean Flynn, Nicole Courcel, Jess Hahn, Yossi
Yadin
Director: Rolf H drich
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 95 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.6 (of 10)
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Synopsis: This thriller is set aboard a Frankfurt bound train and
chronicles the desperate flight of an East German refugee. When the
other Germans learn that the fellow is aboard, they demand that he be
turned over to the authorities. Fortunately, the chief authority is a
renegade and plans to disobey his orders. His actions nearly cause an
international incident between the US and the Soviets and the CO is
forced to reluctantly turn in the prisoner.
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Strangers on a Train (1951)
Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll,
Laura Elliott,
Jonathan Hale
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Format: English & French, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 101 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.3 (of 10) - Ranked in Top 100 Films of All
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Synopsis: In one of Alfred Hitchcock's suspense classics, tennis
pro Guy Haines (Farley Granger) chances to meet wealthy wastrel Bruno
Anthony (Robert Walker) on a train. Having read all about Guy, Bruno is
aware that the tennis player is trapped in an unhappy marriage to to
wife Miriam (Laura Elliott) and has been seen in the company of
senator's daughter Ann Morton (Ruth Roman). Baiting Guy, Bruno reveals
that he feels trapped by his hated father (Jonathan Hale). As Guy
listens with detached amusement, Bruno discusses the theory of "exchange
murders." Suppose that Bruno were to murder Guy's wife, and Guy in
exchange were to kill Bruno's father? With no known link between the two
men, the police would be none the wiser, would they?
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Streamline Express
(1935)
Cast: Victor Jory, Evelyn Venable, Esther Ralston, Lee Moran
Director: Leonard Fields
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 71 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.7 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A colorful group of passengers are aboard The
Streamline Express, a high-speed train en route from New York to
California. Antics, romance, and intrigue collide as these travelers --
a Broadway director, the leading lady he's in love with, her stuffy
fianc , and a diamond thief -- make the cross-country journey together.
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Subway (1985)
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Christopher Lambert
Director: Luc Besson
Format: French, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 102 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Fred (Christopher Lambert) has just stolen some major
documents from a birthday celebration given by the Paris elite for one
of their kind, Helena (Isabelle Adjani). He takes off into the Metro
just as it is shut down for the remaining few hours of predawn darkness
and once in the Metro encounters several characters in the tunnels.
There is a bodybuilder who works out with subway parts, a
purse-snatcher, and a flower seller of dubious ethics. Through all of
these encounters and activities, the police and others — including
Helena — are after Fred for their own reasons, none of which coincide.
As Fred discovers, going underground can be risky.
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Subway Stories (1997)
Cast: Idina Harris, Mercedes Ruehl, Lili Taylor, Rosie Perez,
Jerry Stiller, Gregory Hines, Bonnie Hunt,
Denis Leary, Michael Rapaport
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 81 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.4 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The New York City subways provide the common setting
for this modern anthology comprised of ten shorts from some of
Hollywood's top directors. The episodes are based on real stories
submitted by scores of subway regulars.
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Terror by Night (1946)
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, Dennis Hoey, Renee Godfrey
Director: Roy William Neill
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.0 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The action takes place on a speeding steam train racing
from London to Edinburgh. Lady Margaret Carstairs (Mary Forbes) possess
a 423 karat diamond, known as the "Star of Rhodesia," and her son
employs Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to protect the priceless jewel
until it reaches its home in Scotland. Lady Margaret's son is found
murdered and the "Star of Rhodesia" has been whisked away. Eccentric and
suspicious passengers line the Scotland Express as Sherlock Holmes, Dr.
Watson, and Inspector Lestrade (Dennis Hoey) investigate. Along for the
ride is an old friend of Watson's, Major Duncan-Bleek (Alan Mowbray),
who may or may not be as disinterested a party as he appears.
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Terror Train (1980)
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner, David
Copperfield
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 97 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.4 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The story is the basic slasher film premise, remounted
on a moving train. A college fraternity decides to hold a New Year's Eve
party on a train. But an uninvited guest, a disturbed ex-fraternity
member, decides to take revenge on the partying students by killing them
off one by one in increasingly grisly fashion.
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Tickets (2005)
Cast: Carlo Delle Piane, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Silvana De
Santis, Filippo Trojano, Martin
Compston
Director: Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi
Format: Italian & English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 115 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Three of the world's most celebrated directors join
together to direct a trilogy of interwoven stories set aboard a train
travelling from Central Europe to Rome. The characters connect through
casual encounters but the stories are related through their themes of
social status, the mystery of chance, and sacrifice.
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The Titfield Thunderbolt (1952)
Cast: Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne, John Gregson
Director: Charles Crichton
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 84 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Titfield Thunderbolt takes place in a tiny British
village serviced by a branch railway line. When the government plans to
close the line down, the locals are in a panic, except for a group
intending to set up an expensive bus service. The local vicar (George
Relph) concocts a scheme with the town's wealthiest man (Stanley
Holloway) for the villagers to run the rail line themselves; in this way
they hope to prove to the railway inspectors that their branch is still
worth keeping. When the bus interests attempt to sabotage this
undertaking, the villagers respond by stealing a stray locomotive—and
when this proves cumbersome, they reactivate a 19th century locomotive
from the local museum.
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Train (2008)
Cast: Thora Birch, Gideon Emery, Kavan Reece, Derek Magyar,
Gloria Votsis
Director: Gideon Raff
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 94 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 4.7 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Touring Eastern Europe with her college wrestling team,
Alex (Thora Birch) attends a debauched late-night party that causes Alex
and several teammates to miss their train to Odessa. Her coach is
furious, but a mysterious woman offers the coach and wrestlers a ride on
an alternative train. The coach agrees, and the athletes, exhausted and
hung over, gratefully climb aboard. But the train harbors a deadly
secret, and for Alex and her fellow passengers, a blood-soaked nightmare
is just beginning.
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The Train Killer (1983)
Cast: Michael Sarrazin, Towje Kleiner, Constanze Engelbrecht,
Ferenc B cs
Director: S ndor Sim
Format: Hungarian, Color, Mono
Runtime: 105 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The year is 1931. Someone is trying to permanently
derail the Orient Express. This drama, based on a true story, explains
who and why. The mad bomber is Sylvester Matushka, a Hungarian
businessman. He has destroyed the train and many have died. Now Dr.
Epstein is called in to investigate and find Matushka before he strikes
again.
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Train Master (2008)
Cast: Jonathan Hall, Michael Biesanz
Director: Phil Bransom
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 94 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 3.3 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Jeremiah (Michael Biesanz) works for the Western
Railroad in the Pacific Northwest. He lives, breaths, and eats railroad.
After Brett Banner (Jonathan Hall), the heir to New York Eastern,
purchases the Western Railroad, he fires Jeremiah. But, when Brett's
nine-year-old son, Justin, Jeremiah's grandchildren, Thomas and Sarah,
and two other children end up on an old runaway train engine together,
the two men must join forces to save the kids.
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Train of Life (Train de
vie) (1998)
Cast: Lionel Abelanski, Rufus, Michel Muller, Cl ment Harari
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Format: French, Color, Dolby
Runtime: 103 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.6 (of 10)
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Synopsis: In 1941, a Jewish community in France is faced with
some shocking news: the Nazis are coming. But Shlomo (Lionel Abelanski),
the not-so-foolish village idiot, has a plan. Before the Germans can
dispatch them to camps, the townspeople will "deport" themselves to
freedom. They build their own train and attempt a daring escape,
masquerading as Nazis and their prisoners.
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Train Quest (2001)
Cast: Tanya Garrett, Christian Irimia, Donnie Biggs, Paul Keith
Director: Jeffrey Porter
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 80 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.8 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A 15-year-old takes his girlfriend to the toy shop
where he works to show her the owner's latest creation -- a cool new
train set and model city. But when he turns on the train, something
extraordinary happens. Suddenly the two teens are zapped down in size
and find themselves passengers on board the speeding toy train! Scared
and mystified, the pair discover they have been trapped by the toy's
evil mastermind, the diabolical Mr. Dalby, and must quickly find a means
of escape.
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The Train Robbers (1973)
Cast: John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Christopher George, Bobby
Vinton
Director: Burt Kennedy
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 92 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.0 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Ann-Margret stars as Mrs. Lowe, a widow who wishes to
recover some gold stolen by her husband and hidden away. She says she
wants to return it to the bank it was stolen from and clear her family
name. In order to do this, she persuades Lane (John Wayne) to ride into
Mexico with her and recover the loot. Once they cross the border, they
discover two very different pursuers: a large group of bandidos, and a
lone horseman who seems to know their every move (Ricardo Montalban).
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Train to Busan (2016)
Cast: Gong Yoo, Yu-mi Jung, Dong-seok Ma, Su-an Kim
Director: Yeon Sang-Ho
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 118 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.5 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A harrowing zombie horror-thriller that follows a group
of terrified passengers fighting their way through a countrywide viral
outbreak while trapped on a suspicion-filled, blood-drenched bullet
train ride to Busan, a southern resort city that has managed to hold off
the zombie hordes... or so everyone hopes.
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Transcontinental Limited
(1926)
Cast: Johnnie Walker, Eugenia Gilbert, Alec B. Francis
Director: Nat Ross
Format: Black & White, Silent
Runtime: 67 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.8 (of 10)
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Synopsis: War veteran Johnnie Lane (Walker) comes home to find
his sweetheart, Mary Reynolds (Gilbert), completely distraught. Her dad
(Francis) will go blind unless she can raise the money for a costly
operation. Johnnie and a few of his war pals "borrow" the surgeon's fee
from a railroad safe intending to repay the money before it is
discovered. A jealous rival learns of the scheme and does his best to
send Johnnie to prison for a long time.
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Transsiberian (2008)
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley, Eduardo
Noriega,
Kate Mara
Director: Brad Anderson
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 111 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.8 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer) are
the perfect American couple traveling from Beijing to Moscow on the
legendary Trans-Siberian Express train. The two strike a bond with
another couple, Carlos (Eduardo Noriega) and Abby (Kate Mara), who are
not exactly as they appear. Unwittingly, Roy and Jessie are caught in a
web of drug trafficking and murderous deceit when all four become
targets of ex-KGB detective Grinko's (Ben Kingsley) investigation.
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Treasure Train aka
Odyssey of the Pacific (1982)
Cast: Mickey Rooney
Director: Fernando Arrabal
Format: English, Color, Dolby
Runtime: 81 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.0 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Three children befriend a young Cambodian boy who
dreams of returning home. When the children meet an eccentric railroad
engineer (Rooney) with an abandoned steam locomotive, they hatch a plan
to restore the train and return the boy to his family.
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Twentieth Century (1934)
Cast: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe
Karns
Director: Howard Hawks
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 91 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) is a
bigger ham than most actors, but through sheer drive and talent he is
able to build a successful career. When one of his discoveries, Lily
Garland (Carole Lombard), rises to stardom and heeds the call of
Hollywood, Oscar begins a career slide. He hits the skids and seems on
his way out, until he chances to meet Lily again, on a train ride aboard
the Twentieth Century Limited.
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Twisted Rails (1934)
Cast: Jack Donovan, Alice Dahl, Philo McCullough, Victor Potel
Director: Albert Herman
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 51 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.1 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The mountain division of the Tidewater Railroad is
sabotaged by a gang's series of wrecks and robberies. When the
engineer's daughter is kidnapped by the gang, Jim Conway (Jack Donovan)
leads the effort to capture the gang's leader and prevent the robbery of
a gold shipment.
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Tycoon (1947)
Cast: John Wayne, Laraine Day, Cedric Hardwicke, Judith Anderson, James Gleason, Anthony Quinn
Director: Richard Wallace
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 129 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.0 (of 10)
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Synopsis: This John Wayne adventure is set in South America's
rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful US
mining magnate to build a railroad to his newest mines. The two men lock
horns over the route the railroad will take. The cost-conscious,
people-insensitive industrialist wants to take the shortest route, right
through the mountain. But building the tunnel will be extremely
dangerous. Wayne wants to do it more safely and build a bridge.
Eventually, the engineer is forced to acquiesce with his boss. Later the
engineer meets and falls in love with a pretty young woman who turns out
to be his hated boss's daughter and this only makes matters worse.
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Under Siege 2: Dark
Territory (1995)
Cast: Steven Seagal, Eric Bogosian, Everett McGill, Katherine
Heigl, Morris Chestnut
Director: Geoff Murphy
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 100 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 4.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: In the original box-office smash Under Siege, action
hero Steven Seagal played Casey Ryback, a U.S. Navy SEAL who saved the
world from nuclear destruction by outsmarting and killing off terrorists
who had commandeered a submarine. In this sequel, Seagal's Ryback
character does the same sort of thing aboard a train. Ryback now has
retired from the Navy and is taking his niece Sarah (Katherine Heigl) on
a vacation. They board a train traveling through the Rocky Mountains,
where criminal mastermind Travis Dane (Eric Bogosian) is using the train
as a control center in his effort to kidnap a top-secret government
weapon.
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Union Depot (1932)
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Alan Hale
Director: Alfred E. Green
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 67 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.0 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Amid the comings and goings at Union Depot, on-the-grift
Chick (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and his pal Scrap Iron (Guy Kibbee) retrieve a dropped baggage-claim ticket.
They redeem it for a violin case - and open it to find a fortune in
cash. Now Chick can put on airs and impress the doll-faced,
down-on-her-luck chorus girl (Joan Blondell) he meets at the station. And maybe she can
travel to her next show on his dime -- and flee a deviant stalker, to
boot. Meanwhile, detectives close in on the pair for passing around counterfeit dough.
Filming Locations: Filmed on a set at Warner Brothers Burbank
Studios.
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Union Pacific (1939)
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert
Preston, Lynne Overman, Brian Donlevy
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 135 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.2 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then
rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The
real-life spectacle is occasionally interrupted by the fictional
adventures of railroad overseer Joel McCrea, postmistress Barbara
Stanwyck, and McCrea's best pal Robert Preston. Unfortunately, Preston
has fallen in with Brian Donlevy, who is dedicated to destroying the
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Union Station (1950)
Cast: William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald, Nancy Olson, Allene
Roberts
Director: Rudolph Mate
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 81 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: On a train to Union Station, Joyce Willecombe (Nancy
Olson) witnesses what she believes is suspicious activity by two men.
Indeed, they have kidnapped Lorna Murchison (Allene Roberts), the blind
daughter of Joyce's wealthy employer, and are holding Lorna ransom for
$100,000. As the crooks use bustling Union Station as the drop-off point
for the ransom, police chief Bill Calhoun (William Holden) must rescue
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Unstoppable (2010)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee,
Kevin Dunn, Kevin
Corrigan
Director: Tony Scott
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 98 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.8 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A runaway train transporting toxic chemicals
is barreling down on Scranton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop
it: a veteran engineer (Denzel Washington) and a young conductor (Chris
Pine). Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes
attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an
epic disaster.
The movie is based on the runaway of CSX 8888 that occurred in Ohio in
May 2001. The set up of the movie largely follows real life events,
including a series of gross errors in judgment by the train engineer
that caused the unlikely runaway. It is also true that the train was
carrying hazardous cargo and exceeded speeds of 50mph. However, the
remainder of the movie takes a number of liberties concerning the
attempts to stop the runaway. A report detailing the actual event is
available online.
Filming Locations: Filmed on location at the
Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad (Olean NY, Eldred PA, Port
Allegany PA, and Emporium PA), the Nittany & Bald Eagle RR (Tyrone PA),
and Wheeling & Lake Erie's Brewster Yard (Brewster OH). The elevated
curve and bridge were filmed in Bellaire, Ohio. The "Allegheny & West
Virginia Railroad (AWVR)" name is fictional. The two locomotives of the
runaway train were Canadian Pacific AC4400CWs. The locomotives used to
stop the runaway were Wheeling & Lake Erie SD40-2s. The passenger train
consisted of Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad GP11 #2002 and coaches from
the Orrville Railroad Heritage Society.
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The Utah Trail (1938)
Cast: Tex Ritter, White Flash, Horace Murphy, Snub Pollard,
Pamela Blake
Director: Albert Herman
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 56 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Tex and his sidekicks arrive to help out his friend
Jeffers, a railroad owner, only to find that he has been killed. They
quickly run into trouble with an outlaw gang in their attempt to find
the mysterious "ghost train" that supposedly runs on Jeffer's line. |
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The Warriors (1979)
Cast: Michael Beck, James Remar, Deborah Van Valkenburgh,
David Patrick Kelly
Director: Walter Hill
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 92 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.6 (of 10)
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Synopsis: The gangs of New York number 100,000 and tonight
they're after the Warriors - a street gang blamed unfairly for a rival
gang leader's death. This Warriors use the New York City Subway to get
from place to place, while gang warfare rages from Coney Island to
Manhattan to the Bronx.
Filming Locations: Filmed on location in New York City, including
subway stations at 72nd Street, New Utrecht Ave-62nd Street, Broadway
Junction, Hoyt-Schermerhorn, Eastern Parkway, and Coney Island.
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Webs of Steel (1925)
Cast: Helen Holmes, Bruce Gordon, Andrew Waldron, Arthur Morrison
Director: J.P. McGowan Format: Black & White, Silent
Runtime: 57 minutes
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Synopsis: A railroad engineer and his wife try to stop a gang of
robbers from holding up their train.
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The West-Bound Limited
(1923)
Cast: Ralph Lewis, Claire McDowell, Ella Hall, John Harron
Director: Emory Johnson
Format: Black & White, Silent
Runtime: 72 minutes
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Synopsis: A fired employee takes revenge on the railroad by
setting a trap for a head on collision between a passenger train and a
freight train.
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Where the Hell's That Gold? (1988)
Cast: Willie Nelson, Delta Burke, Jack Elam, Alfonso Arau
Director: Burt Kennedy
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 91 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.7 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Two 19th Century outlaws attempt to outrun a variety of
pursuers after stealing a large cache of gold in this high-energy caper.
It's not easy to outrun pursuing Indians, bandits, and Federal Agents
when you're being weighed down by a substantial stash of precious ore.
After being taken into custody by Mexican authorities, the quick
thinking thieves enlist the aid of a scheming madam and her loyal band
of prostitutes in reclaiming their treasure and eluding the long arm of
the law.
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Whispering Smith (1948)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall, Donald Crisp, William Demarest
Director: Leslie Fenton
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 88 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.5 (of 10)
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Synopsis: This fact -based western follows a soft-spoken railroad
detective (Alan Ladd) as he brings a murderous ring of robbers to
justice and rekindles an old flame.
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Without Reservations (1946)
Cast: John Wayne, Claudette Colbert, Don DeFore
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 101 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.5 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Top billing is bestowed upon Claudette Colbert as Kit,
a best-selling novelist heading westward to oversee the film version of
her latest novel. Taking it upon herself to select the man who should
portray the hero of her novel, Kit chooses war hero Rusty (John Wayne),
whom she meets during her train trip to Hollywood. Unaware of Kit's true
identity, Rusty and his pal Dink (Don DeFore) rail against the factual
errors in her book. One thing leads to another, and before long Kit,
Rusty, and Dink have all been thrown off the train for annoying the
other passengers.
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The Yards (1999)
Cast: Mark Walberg, James Caan, Joaquin Phoenix , Charlize Theron
Director: James Gray
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 115 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.3 (of 10)
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Synopsis: Hot-headed Leo Handler (Mark Wahlberg) has had some
scrapes with the law and served time for a crime he didn't commit.
Hoping to get his life back on track, he takes a job in the New York
subway yards, secured by his Uncle Frank (James Caan), who has a
high-ranking position with the Transit Authority. Leo soon realizes that
his uncle controls a corrupt underworld where violence and even death
are just part of the job. Will Leo turn against his family in the name
of justice, or will he keep quiet and ignore the danger and lawlessness
that surround him?
Filming Locations: Yard scenes were filmed at the New York City
Transit Authority's 207th Street Shops and at an abandoned freight yard
in Brooklyn.
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