Murder on a Stalled Train: The Adventures of a Good Ole Country Boy

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The Times Literary Supplement of 11 January outlined the plot and concluded that "The little grey cells solve once more the seemingly insoluble. Mrs Christie makes an improbable tale very real, and keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end. Although both the murder plot and the solution verge upon the impossible, Agatha Christie has contrived to make them appear quite convincing for the time being, and what more than that can a mystery addict desire?

The reviewer in The Guardian of 12 January noted that the murder would have been "perfect" i. Robert Barnard said that this novel was "The best of the railway stories. The Orient Express, snowed up in Yugoslavia , provides the ideal 'closed' set-up for a classic-style exercise in detection, as well as an excuse for an international cast-list. Contains my favourite line in all Christie: The solution raised the ire of Raymond Chandler , but won't bother anyone who doesn't insist his detective fiction mirror real-life crime. An innocent, but perhaps loose-lipped, maid employed by Lindbergh's parents was suspected of involvement in the crime.

After being harshly interrogated by police, she committed suicide. Two less notable events helped inspire her novel: Her authorised biography details that event in a complete quotation of a letter to her husband, which describes several passengers on her train who inspired both the plot and the characters in her novel, including an American, Mrs. Hilton, who inspired Mrs. In , the streaming service Audible released another radio adaptation that featured Tom Conti as the voice of Poirot.

Goodwin; it was a critical and commercial hit. Only minor changes were made for the film: On 16 June , 20th Century Fox hired Kenneth Branagh to direct and star as Poirot in another film adaptation of the story, [15] which was released on 3 November Added was a direct link for Poirot to the Armstrong kidnapping—before Sonia's death, John Armstrong wrote to Poirot for help. Also unlike the book, the kidnapping did not take place on Long Island but in New Jersey, where the Lindbergh Kidnapping took place.

Susanne Michel is switched from Pierre Michel's daughter to his sister. Cyrus Hardman poses as an Austrian scientist for part of the film. The last scene also sets up the possibility of Death on the Nile as a sequel. Poirot is portrayed as significantly younger and less eccentric than Christie's detective, and is given a subplot involving a romantic relationship with Vera Rosakoff, who is loosely based on an infrequently recurring character of the same name. The character Cyrus Hardman the former American police officer turned private detective has been largely amalgamated with the chauffeur Foscarelli in as much as regards being the lover of the dead maid and Dr Constantine who in the novel is unrelated to the murders becomes a co-conspirator.

The main difference from the novel is the additional element of Poirot's Catholicism being brought to the forefront, and his personal and religious struggle with whether to expose the murderers or let them off the hook. The first night featured a storyline true to the original text, but set in Japan in In this version, the train Orient Kyuukou ran from the western city of Shimonoseki to Tokyo , with the train stopped by a small avalanche near Sekigahara, Gifu.

The point and click computer game Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express was released in November for Windows and expanded on Agatha Christie's original story with a new playable central character as Hercule Poirot voiced by David Suchet is ill and recovering in his train compartment. The story's first true publication was the US serialisation in six instalments in the Saturday Evening Post from 30 September to 4 November Volume , Numbers 14 to The UK serialisation appeared after book publication, appearing in three instalments in the Grand Magazine , in March, April, and May Issues to From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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T he A66 in Cumbria was closed in both directions between Scotch Corner and Brough, due to "severe snowfall", while the A56 in Lancashire was likely to be closed for "several hours" due to a lorry crash between the M65 and A Northumbria Police said the A68 was closed between Corbridge and Ridsdale. O ne person was taken to hospital after a crash involving 16 vehicles on the M66 southbound between the Ramsbottom and Bury junction.

The West Coast Main Line was closed until at least midday between Carlisle and Scotland, with no trains or replacement buses. London Paddington, the UK's seventh busiest station, was closed at 8am. Long distance services are starting and terminating at Reading. A round 50 stations in Kent and East Sussex were closed on Thursday as operator Southeastern advised commuters to work from home if possible.

Northern said the severe weather had left several routes blocked, with delays and cancellations across the whole network. Heathrow was badly hit, with airlines forced to reduce schedules on Thursday and Friday following discussions with airport officials and air traffic control provider Nats. B ritish Airways cancelled more than flights, affecting long haul and short haul routes. Other airlines to cancel flights at the west London hub include Virgin Atlantic, Lufthansa and Flybe.

G lasgow Airport announced it will remain shut for the second day in a row due to heavy snow. The closure had originally been expected to last until 11am on Thursday, which was then extended until 3pm. However, continuing extreme conditions have forced the airport to close for the rest of the day. Edinburgh Airport tweeted that most airlines had cancelled services until lunchtime. There were also cancellations and delays at Gatwick Airport.

The runway at East Midlands Airport was temporarily closed on Thursday morning, and travellers were warned it could affect flights. Ryanair said it has cancelled all flights to and from the following airports for the rest of Thursday: The low cost airline also cancelled a number of flights serving Dublin Airport. Here are the number of flights cancelled at some airports in the UK and across Europe, according to flight data website Flightradar A spokesman for travel trade organisation Abta said: A newlywed couple are having an unexpected honeymoon - stranded in Glasgow Airport amid the wild weather.

Chris and Vicky Robinson, from Stranraer, got married last weekend and were looking forward to a luxury holiday in the Maldives when heavy snow closed the airport on Wednesday. Instead of enjoying 30C heat in the Indian Ocean, they spent the night in chairs in Glasgow Airport's main terminal - catching a few hours sleep as they waited for news on a rescheduled departure. Mr Robinson, 29, said: We'd heard about camp beds and blankets, but we got no information about that.

M rs Robinson, 27, said she had shed a few tears on Wednesday. We had the perfect wedding so you can't ask for everything. The airport said it has faced an unprecedented weather situation. Many staff also stayed at the airport overnight to help with the situation, and runway teams have been working since Tuesday night to try to clear flight paths. Extreme weather and jack-knifed lorries combined to cause "significant challenges" on one of Scotland's main roads where motorists were stranded overnight. M otorists reported being stuck for up to 13 hours , with some spending the night in their cars, and others abandoning their vehicles on the motorway.

Emergency responders and volunteer agencies, including mountain rescue teams, checked on stranded drivers, with some good samaritans also handing out food. M r Swinney told BBC Radio Scotland the country was experiencing "the most significant snow incident we've had since ". And he said the M80 had been a "particular pinch point" after traffic ground to a halt.

H e said the "overwhelming majority" of Scots had heeded warnings to stay at home. H e also stressed people should stay at home today unless they are essential workers. A "perfect storm" of appalling weather, persistently high hospital admissions due to flu and a renewed spike in norovirus put accident and emergency departments under considerable pressure last week, with the prolonged cold conditions set to put them under even more strain.

NHS England warned that the current bout of freezing weather could increase health risks for vulnerable patients such as the very young, very old or those with chronic diseases. Dr Nick Scriven, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said the severe weather is an "added burden on top of the recent 'usual' winter" and hospitals are likely to be forced to cancel routine procedures. Overall NHS staff are pulling together and making immense efforts to keep people our hospitals safe. NHS staff who slept in wards to ensure patient services could continue despite the weather have been praised by the public.

Medical staff stayed overnight at Sunderland Royal Hospital, while others who were brought in by 4x4 volunteer drivers will do so on Thursday night into Friday. When the City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust posted a message about its staff and asked for the public to thank them, more than 20, people "liked" it.

A nd the page was flooded with messages of gratitude. The NHS wouldn't run without people like you all. Paediatric nurse Lisa Gerrett, 38, from County Durham, was brought in to work by a volunteer driver in a 4x4 and will stay over at the hospital so she can work on Friday.

The mother of four said: It also means I can cover for night staff who cannot get in, if necessary. So much respect for the NHS this evening. M eanwhile, it has emerged that a Glasgow surgeon walked for eight miles in the snow to operate on a cancer patient. 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.

Jay Wilsey, William V. 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.

Spanish, Color, Dolby Digital Runtime: 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.

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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. 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.

Lars von Trier Format: English, Color, Dolby Runtime: An American of German descent arrives in post-war Germany 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.

Alex discovers a fully-functional steam locomotive, "The ," 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. 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.

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 and , two of model R42 cars built by the St. 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 one of R17 cars built by St. 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. The suspect list is plenty: Marc, the rich boy who loved her? 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. 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. Filmed on location at Glenwood Canyon, Colorado. Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder Format: 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. Unfortunately for the crooks, the mansion has been converted into the new site for St. Trinian's School for Girls. The Great Train Robbery is a dramatization of the famous first hold-up of a moving train in England.

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. Mostly filmed in Ireland, including the railway line between Mullingar and Athlone. 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 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. 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. This horror science-fiction thriller, a cult favorite, takes place in 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. Carroll Baker, Lee J. The "Gold City" train station and runaway train were filmed at and near Perkinsville, Arizona on what is now the Verde Canyon Railroad. 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. McGowan, Armand Schaefer Format: 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.

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. 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. 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. Thus, the battle between the unjustly treated Jane and the arrogant railroad boss begins. 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.

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. 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.

Filmed entirely in the Budapest Metro. Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 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. Young Iris Henderson Margaret Lockwood heads home on a train after spending the holidays in the Balkans. 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. 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. 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. 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. Nickel Plate built 24 years after the film's setting was filmed in Thurmond, West Virginia.

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. 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.

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. 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.

An early scene of "Wall Street" was filmed at 14th St. Fifteen subway cars were trucked to the set to film a range of action scenes. 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.

Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel was updated from the s 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 film remains intact, as does Poirot's ultimate decision to let his heart rule his head. 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. 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. 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.

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.

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The private cars included one dormitory, one baggage car, three coaches , , , one dome car , one dining car , another coach , three sleepers , , , and a rear dome car The primary compartments in the film are A6 in , and later C6 in Some of the distant exterior shots of the train specifically two bridge crossings were filmed using a model train. Set in South Yorkshire, the film opens with familiar British Rail sign being replaced with a shiny new one reading "East Midland Infrastructure. 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. 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.

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Once we've digested all this, it is revealed that the police are searching for a murderer. 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. 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. Exterior scenes feature the 20th Century Limited specifically car , though the interior shots of dining and sleeping cars were filmed at an MGM soundstage. 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. Norwegian, Color, Dolby Digital Runtime: 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: How should he live the rest of his life?

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.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Bruce William Collier , the son of the railroad president, volunteers to investigate the cause of the accidents. 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. Kidnapping, romance and intrigue shift this s 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.

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. 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. 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.

The great comic genius of the silent era still shines in these two programs. In "The Railrodder" 25 min. 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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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. 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. Great Western pannier tank engine , now on display in Oxenhope, was filmed hauling the train. 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.

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. 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. Filmed at the Aldwych subway station in the London Underground. Korean, Color, Dolby Runtime: 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 people died.

Rumor has it those cars are haunted and it's not long before Mi-sun starts to experience eerie visions. 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. 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. 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.

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