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This page provides a guide to nearly 100 feature-length movies with railroad themes
and substantial train scenes. A description of filming locations is
provided with each title, including specific railroad and locomotive
data where available. Please note that documentaries and specialty
videos catered to rail enthusiasts and model railroaders are NOT
included, and may be found in RailServe.com's
Videos & DVDs category.
All titles included in this guide are available on DVD
and may be purchased worldwide from
Amazon.com. You're welcome to browse the information about each film on this page,
then click the blue "Click Here To Order" link with each title for more
information, reviews, and ordering from Amazon.com. If you have any questions
or corrections concerning a title, or suggestions for additions to this page, please
let us know.
Note: This page is currently under development. Synopsis and filming
location info will be added for all films in August. |
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Top 10 Classic Railroad 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)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$9.99 (Click Here To Order)
Synopsis: Paris, August 1944. With the Allied army closing in,
German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield)
steals a collection of rare French paintings and loads them on a
train bound for Berlin. But when a beloved French patriot is murdered
while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche (Burt
Lancaster), a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train
at any cost. Calling upon his vast arsenal of skills, Labiche unleashes
a torrent of devastation and destruction in an impassioned, suspense filled quest
for justice, retribution, and revenge. Inspired by the actual looting of
paintings from the Musée du Jeu de Paume, 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 Château 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 recently 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 subject 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,
Cast: Malcolm Atterbury
Director: Robert Aldrich
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 118 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$7.49 (Click Here To Order)
Synopsis: In this gritty and violent period drama set in the
depths of the Great Depression, Lee Marvin stars as A #1, the
acknowledged King of the Hoboes. A #1 is famous among his fellow tramps
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 in
his accomplishments. But 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 and they are soon bearing the full brunt of
his violent nature.
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.
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#3 - The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Cast: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo,
Cast: Earl Hindman, Jerry Stiller
Director: Joseph Sargent
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 104 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.7 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$10.49 (Click Here To Order)
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. 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) will be released in mid-2009.
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#4 - 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)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$12.99 (Click Here To Order)
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.
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#5 - La Bataille Du Rail (1946)
Director: René Clément
Format: French (English subtitles), Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 85 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$26.99 (Click Here To Order)
Synopsis: A remarkable and courageous film 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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#6 - 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)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$15.49 (Click Here To Order)
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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#7 - Night Passage (1957)
Cast: James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Dianne Foster,
Cast: Elaine Stewart
Director: James Neilson
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 91 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.7 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$12.99 (Click Here To Order)
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, climaxing in an unforgettable gun battle as the brothers from
opposite sides of the law meet again to settle an old score.
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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#8 - Breakheart Pass (1975)
Cast: Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland,
Cast: Charles Durning
Director: Tom Gries
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 95 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.5 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$12.99 (Click Here To Order)
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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#9 - Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrŕ, Brad Dexter,
Cast: 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)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$10.99 (Click Here To Order)
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, Málaga, Spain.
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#10 - La Bęte 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)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$26.99 (Click Here To Order)
Synopsis: The story tells of train engineer Jacques Lantier (Jean Gabin)
who lusts after Séverine Roubaud (Simone Simon), the wife of his co-worker Roubaud (Fernand Ledoux). Roubaud, discovers that his young wife, Séverine, has
been seduced by her godfather, the wealthy Grandmorin. Jealous, Roubaud
forces Séverine 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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Other Films with Significant Railroad Themes
sorted
alphabetically by title |
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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: 4.3 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$19.95 (Click Here To Order)
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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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: 4.2 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$12.99 (Click Here To Order)
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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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)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$12.99 (Click Here To Order)
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
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Cast: William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, Sessue
Hayakawa,
Cast: 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
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$21.99 (Click Here To Order)
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,
Cast: 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
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$29.99 (Click Here To Order)
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,
Cast: 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)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$9.95 (Click Here To Order)
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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The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Cast: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson,
Cast: Lionel Stander, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 129 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.1 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$12.99 (Click Here To Order)
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 Truyčre 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)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$21.99 (Click Here To Order)
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.
Filming Locations:
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Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Cast: Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský, Vladimír
Valenta
Director: Jirí Menzel
Format: Czech, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 93 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.0 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$26.99 (Click Here To Order)
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 (Václav Neckár) 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:
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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)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$23.99 (Click Here To Order)
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:
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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)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
$9.99 (Click Here To Order)
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: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific
Railroad
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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.
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Death Train (2006)
Cast: Arnold Vosloo, Mathis Landwehr, Stefan Bieker, Ken Bones
Director: Diethard Küster
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 104 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 3.9 (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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Detonator aka Alistair MacLean's Death
Train (1993)
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Patrick Stewart, Alexandra Paul, Ted
Levine,
Cast: Christopher Lee
Director: David Jackson
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 98 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.4 (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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El Ultimo Tren (2002)
Cast: Héctor Alterio, Federico Luppi, Gastón Pauls, Pepe Soriano
Director: Diego Arsuaga
Format: Spanish, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 93 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.0 (of 10)
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Synopsis: An ambitious business man (Gastón 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,
Cast: Henderson Forsythe
Director: Jay Russell
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 105 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.7 (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
figurehead Thomas Clinton (Henderson Forsythe).
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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.
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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,
Cast: 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.
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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
Cast: Frankie Howerd, Dora Bryan, George Cole, Reg Varney,
Cast: 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,
Cast: 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.
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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,
Cast: 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: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Telly Savalas
Director: Eugenio Martín
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.3 (of 10)
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Hurricane Express (1932)
Cast: John Wayne, Tully Marshall, Conway Tearle, Shirley Grey
Director: J.P. McGowan, Armand Schaefer
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.3 (of 10)
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The Iron Horse (1924)
Cast: George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull,
Cast: Cyril Chadwick, Will Walling
Director: John Ford
Format: Black & White, Silent
Runtime: 149 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
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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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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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Kansas Pacific (1953)
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon,
Cast: 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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Kontroll (2004)
Cast: Sándor Csányi, Zoltán Mucsi, Csaba Pindroch, Sándor Badár
Director: Nimród Antal
Format: Hungarian, Color, DTS
Runtime: 106 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.6 (of 10)
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La Ilusión viaja en tranvía (1954)
Cast: Lilia Prado, Carlos Navarro, Fernando Soto, Agustin Isunza
Director: Luis Bunuel
Format: Spanish, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.5 (of 10)
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The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May
Whitty,
Cast: 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
Time
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Man on the Tracks (1956)
Cast: Kazimierz Opalinski, Zygmunt Maciejewski, Zygmunt Zintel
Cast: Zygmunt Listkiewicz,
Roman Klosowski
Director: Andrzej Munk
Format: Polish, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 86 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.6 (of 10)
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Money Train (1995)
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Lopez, Robert
Blake,
Cast: 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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Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Cast: Albert Finney, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline
Bisset,
Cast: Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam
Director: Sidney Lumet
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 127 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
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Murder, She Said (1961)
Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow,
Cast: 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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The Narrow Margin (1952)
Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon
Gebert,
Cast: 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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Narrow Margin (1990)
Cast: Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James Sikking, J.T. Walsh,
Cast: 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 (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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Night Train (Ludzie z pociagu) (1961)
Cast: Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Teresa Szmigielówna,
Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Helena
Dabrowska
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Format: Polish, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 93 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.6 (of 10)
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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
Time
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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: 124 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.2 (of 10)
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Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
Cast: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson,
Cast: 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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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: 6.6 (of 10)
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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: 6.0 (of 10)
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The Polar Express (2004)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Chris Coppola, Michael Jeter, Leslie Zemeckis,
Cast: Eddie Deezen, Nona Gaye
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 100 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.7 (of 10)
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Synopsis:
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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Prison Train (1938)
Cast: Fred Keating, Dorothy Comingore, Clarence Muse, Nestor
Paiva
Director: Gordon Wiles
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 64 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.8 (of 10)
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The Railroad Man (1956)
Cast: Sylva Koscina, Carlo Giuffré, 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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The Railrodder (1965)
Cast: Buster Keaton
Director: Gerald Potterton
Format: Color, Silent
Runtime: 24 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.5 (of 10)
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The Railway Children (1970)
Cast: Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins, William Mervyn, Iain
Cuthbertson,
Cast: 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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The Railway Children - BBC TV Remake
(2000)
Cast: Jack Blumenau, Clare Thomas, Jemima Rooper, Jenny Agutter,
Cast: 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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Santa Fe (1951)
Cast: Randolph Scott, Janis Carter, Jerome Courtland, John
Archer,
Cast: 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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Silver Streak (1976)
Cast: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick
McGoohan,
Cast: 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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The Station Agent (2003)
Cast: Peter Dinklage, Bobby Cannavale, Patricia Clarkson,
Cast: Michelle Williams
Director: Thomas McCarthy
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 89 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.9 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price:
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Station Jim (2001)
Cast: George Cole, Charlie Creed-Miles, Frank Finlay, Prunella
Scales,
Cast: Stanley Townsend
Director: John Roberts
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 87 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
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