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Jul 20, 2011
When I say, you say #5: Train
Kids, here's a new edition of When I say, you say, the game in which I say a word and you share your first (first) movie related thought. Titles, scenes, characters, passages from actors' biographies, etc, etc...
White Christmas! "We're not taking a plane. We're taking a train. A train with two nice, warm, soft, comfortable beds, which at this moment, two blondes--"
There are so many old movies that have memorable train scenes. When I read the word immediately all different scenes flashed through my head. But the first name that came to mind was *The Major and the Minor*. I can certainly think of a dozen or so others, though!
I'm not sure if my comment posted. It looks like it didn't, so I'll retype it here. :)
There are so many memorable old movie scenes that take place on trains. When I read the word immediately many scenes flashed through my head. The first title to come to mind, though, was *The Major and the Minor*. I think I could probably come up with a list of at least a dozen others, though!
"The Thin Man". Nick and Nora are headed home on the train after their exciting, crime solving Christmas in NYC. Asta hides his head in his paws as Mr. & Mrs. Charles share a berth.
Burt Lancaster and Paul Scofield in The Train -- with the former as a French railroad worker trying to stop the latter as a Nazi officer from looting Paris of its art treasures just before the Allies arrive in 1944. Tense action flick with a somber philosophical question running underneath it, "Why do we automatically assume these great paintings are worth more than the human lives lost trying to save them?"
Hitchcock! A lot of his movies have a train in it. Strangers on a Train, The Lady Vanishes, North by Northwest, Shadow of a Doubt! Trains also remind me of Harry Potter. Hogwarts Express!!!
Extraños en un tren fue el primer título que me vino a la mente, pero mi escena preferida en un tren es la de Some like it hot, cuando Marylin se cuela en la litera de Jack Lemmon y empiezan a llegar las demás chicas.
Clara, normally I'd rattle off all sorts of train images from NORTH BY NORTHWEST, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, THE LADY VANISHES, and/or SILVER STREAK. However, you happened to catch me listening to The Clash's "Train in Vain" after watching and thinking about 1880s-set train thriller THE TALL TARGET. As a result, I'm imagining Dick Powell singing "Train in Vain" like the crooner he used to be! I am deranged. :-)
I'm not going to deny I currently have North By Northwest, The Lady Vanishes, and pretty much every Hitchcock ever made whirling through my brain right now. But still, Burt Lancaster in 'The Train' was the first thing I thought of. Oh, how I love that one, though it's utterly bleak and hopeless and grim.
El tren me hace pensar inevitablemente a "Anna Karenina" pero también a las películas de Hitchcock, especialmente a Eva Marie Saint en "North by Northwest" :)
White Christmas! "We're not taking a plane. We're taking a train. A train with two nice, warm, soft, comfortable beds, which at this moment, two blondes--"
ReplyDeleteStrangers On A Train. Petrifying. I now avoid all carousels and creepy guys with odd hats on trains. I love this series!
ReplyDelete~Bette
"Duchess of Idaho" when they are on the train singing "Let's Choo Choo to Idaho."
ReplyDeleteThere are so many old movies that have memorable train scenes. When I read the word immediately all different scenes flashed through my head. But the first name that came to mind was *The Major and the Minor*. I can certainly think of a dozen or so others, though!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if my comment posted. It looks like it didn't, so I'll retype it here. :)
ReplyDeleteThere are so many memorable old movie scenes that take place on trains. When I read the word immediately many scenes flashed through my head. The first title to come to mind, though, was *The Major and the Minor*. I think I could probably come up with a list of at least a dozen others, though!
The Lady Vanishes
ReplyDelete"The Thin Man". Nick and Nora are headed home on the train after their exciting, crime solving Christmas in NYC. Asta hides his head in his paws as Mr. & Mrs. Charles share a berth.
ReplyDeleteBurt Lancaster and Paul Scofield in The Train -- with the former as a French railroad worker trying to stop the latter as a Nazi officer from looting Paris of its art treasures just before the Allies arrive in 1944. Tense action flick with a somber philosophical question running underneath it, "Why do we automatically assume these great paintings are worth more than the human lives lost trying to save them?"
ReplyDeleteSullivan's Travels (1941) - I will never forget Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake traveling in Hobo style.. ;")
ReplyDeleteLeave Her to Heaven - the opening scene where Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde first meet.
ReplyDeleteHitchcock! A lot of his movies have a train in it. Strangers on a Train, The Lady Vanishes, North by Northwest, Shadow of a Doubt! Trains also remind me of Harry Potter. Hogwarts Express!!!
ReplyDeleteCary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, flirting sexily in North by Northwest.
ReplyDeleteClaudette Colbert and a bunch of complete lunatics riding on a train in The Palm Beach Story.
Audrey Hepburn's husband being "tossed off a train like a sack of 3rd class mail" in Charade.
Extraños en un tren fue el primer título que me vino a la mente, pero mi escena preferida en un tren es la de Some like it hot, cuando Marylin se cuela en la litera de Jack Lemmon y empiezan a llegar las demás chicas.
ReplyDeleteAlfred Hitchcock...."Strangers on a Train." Super creepy Robert Walker and the gorgeously filmed carosel scene.
ReplyDelete~Kristin
The Quiet Man. The beginning where John Wayne is at the train station :)
ReplyDeleteClara, normally I'd rattle off all sorts of train images from NORTH BY NORTHWEST, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, THE LADY VANISHES, and/or SILVER STREAK. However, you happened to catch me listening to The Clash's "Train in Vain" after watching and thinking about 1880s-set train thriller THE TALL TARGET. As a result, I'm imagining Dick Powell singing "Train in Vain" like the crooner he used to be! I am deranged. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm not going to deny I currently have North By Northwest, The Lady Vanishes, and pretty much every Hitchcock ever made whirling through my brain right now. But still, Burt Lancaster in 'The Train' was the first thing I thought of. Oh, how I love that one, though it's utterly bleak and hopeless and grim.
ReplyDeleteWhen I see 'train' I always think of the great 'train' robbery scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid then "The Great Train Robbery" 1903.
ReplyDeleteBuster Keaton's The General. Love, locomotives and laughs. What else?
ReplyDeleteShanghai Express! What a beautifully photographed film with the equally beautiful, mysterious Dietrich!
ReplyDeleteEl tren me hace pensar inevitablemente a "Anna Karenina" pero también a las películas de Hitchcock, especialmente a Eva Marie Saint en "North by Northwest" :)
ReplyDeleteThe Train Robbers! John Wayne...AWESOME!
ReplyDeleteThe beginning of HIGH NOON. waiting for the train bringing 'Frank Miller' to town and a showdown with Gary Cooper.
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