Aside from the glaringly obvious (Strangers on a... / Throw Momma From the...), what are some of your favorite train segments in movies? Here are a few, with sadly very few YouTube links:
THE PALM BEACH STORY (trailer) - the 1940s casual-racist Pullman portrayals set my teeth on edge, but Claudette Colbert taking up with the Ale & Quail Club is chaotic fun. If this Preston Sturges classic can't get a chuckle out of you, you're probably dead inside.
42nd STREET - here's "Shuffle Off to Buffalo". Ruby Keeler is creepy, but being Mrs. Al Jolson had its advantages, I guess...
THE GETAWAY - Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw are on the lam. Ali falls prey to a locker-switch con man, and McQueen has to chase him through an Amtrak train to get the cash back.
MARTIN - Underrated horror from George Romero (Night of the Living Dead). Martin is a teenage boy who may or may not be a centuries-old vampire. In a very disturbing opening sequence, he takes a victim on an Amtrak to Pittsburgh.
THE PALM BEACH STORY (trailer) - the 1940s casual-racist Pullman portrayals set my teeth on edge, but Claudette Colbert taking up with the Ale & Quail Club is chaotic fun. If this Preston Sturges classic can't get a chuckle out of you, you're probably dead inside.
42nd STREET - here's "Shuffle Off to Buffalo". Ruby Keeler is creepy, but being Mrs. Al Jolson had its advantages, I guess...
THE GETAWAY - Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw are on the lam. Ali falls prey to a locker-switch con man, and McQueen has to chase him through an Amtrak train to get the cash back.
MARTIN - Underrated horror from George Romero (Night of the Living Dead). Martin is a teenage boy who may or may not be a centuries-old vampire. In a very disturbing opening sequence, he takes a victim on an Amtrak to Pittsburgh.