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Post by Pippen on Apr 5, 2023 19:35:04 GMT
Film journeys ... via plane, train, ship or automobile (etc)... successful or not so much !
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Post by Pippen on Apr 5, 2023 19:37:40 GMT
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 5, 2023 19:50:41 GMT
SILVER STREAK. A great action comedy from 1976 that takes place on a train trip. It still holds up.   |
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Post by timshelboy on Apr 5, 2023 19:57:47 GMT
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Post by Rufus-T on Apr 5, 2023 19:59:30 GMT
The Marx Brothers do their pranks on a ship in Monkey Business _NRFPT_01.jpg) |
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Post by Pippen on Apr 5, 2023 21:30:15 GMT
One of my Forever Films courtesy of a mother who went to a little theater that showed only British films and took me along! Unforgettable cast and situations ! _08.jpg)   |
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Post by Pippen on Apr 5, 2023 21:32:58 GMT
It's a "quest' more than a "journey" but they use a lot of kinds of transport ... :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2449074-1349385472-4197.jpeg.jpg)  |
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Post by Rufus-T on Apr 5, 2023 22:20:59 GMT
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)  |
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Post by Pippen on Apr 6, 2023 0:50:36 GMT
Several versions of  If it was a means of transportation ...they used it ! |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 6, 2023 20:34:09 GMT
Danger on the rails: A chance encounter with a mysterious psychiatrist aboard the Orient Express leads a honeymooning couple into life-threatening jeopardy In Edgar Ulmer's 1934 The Black Cat Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud and Peter Lorre survive a train crash that exposes a traitorous operative in Hitchcock's 1936 Secret Agent The raucous Ale and Quail Club induces the conductor to uncouple their private car...  ...costing Claudette Colbert her clothes...  ...and Rudy Vallee several pair of pince-nez...  ...in Preston Sturges's 1942 The Palm Beach Story. Dick Powell is on the trail of a would-be Lincoln assassin on a New York-to-Baltimore train in Anthony Mann's 1951 The Tall Target Detective Charles McGraw undertakes to protect belligerent state's evidence witness Marie Windsor on a train from Chicago to L.A. in Richard Fleischer's 1952 The Narrow Margin
Attempting to warn an approaching train of an impending crash, Lyle Bettger discovers his Chrysler convertible is no match for an oncoming locomotive...especially when C.B. DeMille wants to stage just such a crash in 1952's The Greatest Show on Earth
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 6, 2023 21:41:40 GMT
Fear of flying... The High and the Mighty - Over the Pacific between Honolulu and San Francisco with one engine out and a punctured fuel tank, John Wayne spells it all out for the worried passengers  Zero Hour - With half the passengers and the entire crew disabled by food poisoning, traumatized WWII pilot Dana Andrews is the only one on board who can take the controls (as I'm sure everyone knows, this film was the basis for 1980's Airplane)  The Crowded Sky - Andrews again in airborne angst, trying to bring in a passenger plane crippled by a midair collision (and enduring needling from copilot John Kerr)  Airport - Dean Martin demonstrates how to keep passengers calm in a crisis: "You'll kill yourself for nothing if you explode that BOMB!!!" "Bomb?? Bomb!!! Aaaaahhhhhh..." Airport 1975 - Uh oh, Andrews is at the controls again, this time suffering a heart attack and crashing his plane into Efrem Zimbalist's 747 (and just for fun, it was Zimbalist who crashed into Andrews's plane in The Crowded Sky...what you might call karma in the clouds)  It's all enough to give you nightmares  "Gadorsky! Gadorsky, get out of that plane!" |
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Post by Pippen on Apr 6, 2023 22:31:26 GMT
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Post by Pippen on Apr 6, 2023 22:34:01 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 6, 2023 23:42:07 GMT
Those in peril on the sea - Outward Bound - Leslie Howard and a small group of passengers find themselves on a liner with no recollection of boarding, and no idea where they're going...the answers eventually become clear  One Way Passage - Kay Francis is terminally ill, William Powell is on his way to San Quentin to be executed, they meet and fall in love on a San Francisco-bound liner...and keep their fates secret from one another  History Is Made At Night - Star-crossed lovers Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur are on a liner that strikes an iceberg (no, not that one)  Pacific Liner - Ship's doctor Chester Morris and chief engineer Victor McLaglen are at odds over how to protect passengers from a cholera outbreak below decks (and over nurse Wendy Barrie, for whom they both have the hots, which doesn't help matters)  Titanic - Affluent world travelers Richard and Julia Sturges (Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck) do domestic battle in the best of taste, until a nautical mishap disrupts their travel plans  The Enemy Below - Destroyer captain Robert Mitchum...  ...and U-boat captain Curd Jürgens...  ...do far less civilized - but no less cagey - battle in the best of the fleet of sub films popular in the '50s |
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Post by Pippen on Apr 7, 2023 0:35:46 GMT
Ship of Fools . 1965   My favorite character -- I have re-watched it just to see Michael Dunn again  |
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