As a side note -
For those who mentioned the film "North by Northwest" in this thread, mark your calendars for Friday, May 26, 2017.
On that day, at Chicago's Symphony Center on Michigan Avenue, "North by Northwest" will be shown in Symphony Hall, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performing Bernard Herrmann's score live with the film.
Tickets are now available.
You are my favorite person right now. Thank you!
Well, I'm flattered. I really thought the best I could manage was third or fourth runner-up. I promise to fulfill the duties of my position to the utmost of my abilities. ^_^
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I also wanted to mention that last night TCM had a five-movie retrospective of the work of director Preston Sturges, and all five films had at least a scene or two that took place on a train.
-The Lady Eve, with Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. Features an ocean cruise for the first half of the film and a train voyage near the end. Also stars Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, and Eric Blore.
-Sullivan's Travels, with Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake. Out-of-touch Hollywood director McCrea and Lake attempt to get background information for a new film by riding the rails, Depression-style, dressing in ragged clothes and hopping on the nearest freight train.
-The Palm Beach Story, with Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea. The middle third of the story takes place on the
Florida Special, the Atlantic Coast Line train that traveled between New York and Miami for decades. Includes a great scene in which a quail hunting club destroys a club car while getting in some skeet practice, shooting at saltines for targets.
There is a scene on the train in which Colbert, having lost her clothes, must make an appearance in the dining car at breakfast wearing an outfit she conjured out of a pair of pajamas and a Pullman blanket. Considering the subject matter in another thread(pajamas in the diner), I thought it was particularly relevant.
A brief clip from the film is available on the TCM website, in which Colbert escapes the quail club target practice by hiding away in an empty upper berth in an adjacent sleeping car-
http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/movies/86154/Palm-Beach-Story-The-Movie-Clip-Light-as-a-Feather/244809/
The film also has a scene in which the scenery department re-created a small slice of the original New York Penn Station.
-Hail The Conquering Hero, with Eddie Bracken and William Demarest (Demarest actually appears somewhere in all five movies).
-The Great McGinty, with Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff.
They are all great movies. If you happen to have TCM as part of your cable/satellite package, you can view four out of the five on the TCM website right now, in the Movies On Demand section, until September 09, 2016. The one movie
not available right now -
The Palm Beach Story, the one with the best train scene. :angry2: