Yes, "The Train" starring Burt Lancaster is a excellent movie. Great steam
locomotive footage and a good story line also. Well worth the rental fee. I
would agree, a must see for steam train fans.
Steve Speck
At 04:33 PM 8/13/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello Everyone,
>
> A little off topic (maybe?), but the Turner Classic Movies channel
>aired a few "train shows" this past weekend. I missed them all, but a
>friend saw them and said that one of them was called, "The Train", and
>he had never seen it before. He said that it was a MUST SEE for any
>steam locomotive nut. Several in cab shots, nice run bys, train wrecks,
>car coupling (German style), and some shots from underneath the
>locomotive while it was being re-railed. It' black and white film stock,
>but filmed in 1964. I'm figuring that the B&W aspect will really add to
>the "feel" of the movie, and probably be of rather good quality by it
>being filmed so late in the B&W years. It apparently features mostly(?)
>German locomotives since it concerns, "The French Resistance tries to
>stop a Nazi train". (According to my cable guide.)
> It doesn't appear that it will air again this month on TCM, but maybe
>it'll be available in video rental shops.
> I hadn't heard of it (or seen it yet) and thought others may enjoy a
>good steam locomotive film as well.
>
>Later,
>Trent
>
