tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post6593739893708957738..comments2024-03-08T18:49:51.289-05:00Comments on Classic Film and TV Café: The 5 Best Train MoviesRick29http://www.blogger.com/profile/08358116647815569722noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-83874516711558564862011-08-02T08:57:18.405-04:002011-08-02T08:57:18.405-04:00Yvette, Thank you. I also love your "5 Best&q...Yvette, Thank you. I also love your "5 Best" list picks. I did enjoy doing the "5 Best" lists. I do plan on doing more.. :DDawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03476174860119487509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-38107115831382921582011-08-01T16:53:03.223-04:002011-08-01T16:53:03.223-04:00Ooooh, oooh, NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH. Love it! How c...Ooooh, oooh, NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH. Love it! How could I forget to mention it? And SILVER STREAK...obviously my memory needs some real fine tuning.Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-24489827466478640182011-08-01T16:51:24.996-04:002011-08-01T16:51:24.996-04:00Great post, Dawn. My favorite of your five is TWEN...Great post, Dawn. My favorite of your five is TWENTIETH CENTURY which is such a hilarious classic. I love this film! <br /><br />I'd also add: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS and THE LADY VANISHES. <br /><br />I loved this whole 5 Best thing. I think you should do it every month. :)Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-16287238483304972342011-08-01T10:07:58.400-04:002011-08-01T10:07:58.400-04:00twentyfourframes, Thank you, for your list of &quo...twentyfourframes, Thank you, for your list of "Train" movies. The only one that I have seen is, THE LADY VANISHES, which is also a wonderful film. I'm really looking forward to viewing the rest of your list.<br /><br />Grand Old Movies, I agree.. the "train" films NORTHWEST and THE GENERAL, should also be on the list of favorites.<br /><br />Rick, Thank you.. I will add your list of "Train" films, VON RYAN'S EXPRESS, TERROR BY NIGHT, THE NARROW MARGIN, and BERLIN EXPRESS, RUNAWAY TRAIN and HORROR EXPRESS, to my list of"gotta see" films. <br /><br />Caftan Woman, I just wrote a review for the film, "Tall Target" over on N and CF. I agree.. It is a wonderful film. I hope you have time to stop by and check it out. I will also add your "Train" movie picks, "Murder on the Orient Express", "The Narrow Margin" and "Terror by Night", "Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone", to my list of "gotta see" films.<br /> <br />Jacqueline T Lynch, Thank you for stopping by.<br /><br />toto2, Thank you. I agree.. Alfred Hitchcock, was an expert when it came to using trains in his movies.<br /><br />The Lady Eve, Thank you.. I also loved the "Train" film, "Some Like it Hot." It was hard not to add it to my list of favs.<br /><br />ClassicBecky, Thank you. I also enjoyed your lists of "5 Best" reviews. I have not seen the film, Brief Encounter. Another, wonderul movie for my "gotta see list" of films.Dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03476174860119487509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-75756077778994696122011-08-01T06:33:16.518-04:002011-08-01T06:33:16.518-04:00Great finish to this month's theme of 5 Best, ...Great finish to this month's theme of 5 Best, Dawn! Good analogy too, "moving on" from July to August. My favorites of the ones you chose are 20th Century, The Train and Strangers on a Train. I've never seen teh Palm Beach Story, which your post makes me want to correct!<br /><br />I love a movie that maybe isn't exactly a train movie, although it takes place in a train station, trains are always arriving and leaving, and one train marks the bittersweet need to part -- Brief Encounter. What a simple, beautifully romantic movie. One of my favorites. <br /><br />Good one, Dawn!ClassicBeckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03591715859057540467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-25107065049461357822011-08-01T00:57:44.470-04:002011-08-01T00:57:44.470-04:00Great job, Dawn. I love the train sequences in &qu...Great job, Dawn. I love the train sequences in "The Palm Beach Story" and "Strangers on a Train" - another of my favorites is the one in "Some Like it Hot." A film I love dearly that is entirely set on a train is Sidney Lumet's "Murder on the Orient Express." It's a wonderful star-studded whodunnit, and the train itself was absolutely period-perfect in its opulence.The Lady Evehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11963115499930520653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-86573223691311649882011-07-31T14:39:36.039-04:002011-07-31T14:39:36.039-04:00Dawn, what a fun and thought-provoking post about ...Dawn, what a fun and thought-provoking post about train movies! I love the constraint of a train set picture. I, too, enjoy "Strangers on a Train" as well as "The Lady Vanishes" and "North by Northwest." Hitchcock must have enjoyed the challenges of the train setting, too! As Rick pointed out, there are some excellent moments in "Von Ryan's Express" which really did showcase some of Frank Sinatra's finest cinematic moments. My father-in-law loved all things Carole Lombard. Your list reminds me that it has been too long since I have seen "The Palm Beach Story" and I will need to look out for it. You had a Herculean task choosing great train movies and I enjoyed reading your choices and seeing the excellent photos you included. Great post, Dawn!toto2https://www.blogger.com/profile/09652682900471649463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-41881161093308406662011-07-31T12:26:03.469-04:002011-07-31T12:26:03.469-04:00I loves train movies. You've picked some grea...I loves train movies. You've picked some great ones.Jacqueline T Lynchhttp://anotheroldmovieblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-33805027832922137412011-07-31T11:53:47.830-04:002011-07-31T11:53:47.830-04:00Dawn, I commend you for the gargantuan task of lim...Dawn, I commend you for the gargantuan task of limiting favourite train movies to only 5!<br /><br />I love the punchline to "The Train Robbers" and the small ensemble cast. It plays like one of those movies Kennedy wrote for Randolph Scott in the 50s.<br /><br />I tend to get into knock down drag outs with fellow train movie fans for never considering "Strangers on a Train" because, as great as the movie is, so little of it actually takes place on a train.<br /><br />Following your example, my five: "The Lady Vanishes", "The Tall Target", "Murder on the Orient Express", "The Narrow Margin" and "Terror by Night".<br /><br />Recommendation for comedy-mystery fans: "Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone" with boisterous Marjorie Main and flippant lawyer/investigator James Whitmore solving a murder on a train.Caftan Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05936895555808823221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-90609329907280349172011-07-31T11:49:21.368-04:002011-07-31T11:49:21.368-04:00Dawn, this is a fabulous topic for a "5 Best&...Dawn, this is a fabulous topic for a "5 Best" list. My list would include NORTH BY NORTHWEST, too, plys: VON RYAN'S EXPRESS, TERROR BY NIGHT, THE NARROW MARGIN, and BERLIN EXPRESS. I also enjoy RUNAWAY TRAIN and HORROR EXPRESS.Rick29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08358116647815569722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-73147424660550724422011-07-31T09:59:58.161-04:002011-07-31T09:59:58.161-04:00There are so many great train movies! It must be b...There are so many great train movies! It must be because you can have both motion (the train's) and a space for drama (the train travellers). Other train movies are NORTH BY NORTHWEST (very sexy Eva Marie Saint-Cary Grant train encounter, also Hitchcock) and Buster Keaton's masterpiece, THE GENERAL, which really is ALL about the train. Enjoyed your post!Grand Old Movieshttp://grandoldmovies.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-64469086022196857382011-07-31T09:15:40.411-04:002011-07-31T09:15:40.411-04:00Correction, my comment should have been addressed ...Correction, my comment should have been addressed to Dawn!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-36268354922648215652011-07-31T09:13:46.136-04:002011-07-31T09:13:46.136-04:00Some excellent choices Rick though I admittedly do...Some excellent choices Rick though I admittedly do not like THE TRAIN ROBBERS. STRANGERS ON A TRAIN is brilliant and like you, it's one of my favorite Hitchcock's, though there are about a dozen of his films I will say that about. TWENTIETH CENTURY is a joy, THE TRAIN is intense.<br /><br />Some of my own favorite TRAIN films are...<br /><br />THE LADY VANISHES<br />NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH<br />THE NARROW MARGIN <br />THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE<br />SILVER STREAK<br />WILD BOYS OF THE ROADAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com