Film Noir on a Train

"Listen, jingle-jaw..." I love it.

Made in 1952.

 

 

Kent in SD

It was on TCM several weeks ago, I enjoyed it very mush.  Why not, trains and b&w film it doesn't get much better.  Jim

Trains were just a great setting for film noir. I always loved double Indemnity and its train scenes.  This is even better, set on a train. 

The conductor, who appears in the trailer for a few seconds, was Harry Harvey. He played the sheriff in many episodes of the Roy Rogers tv show & balso appeared many times on the Lone Ranger.

This looks like an interesting film.  I'll have to see if I can track it down.

I agree wholeheartedly about putting trains and film noir together.  Now I have to ask: how many people here have actually built layouts with a noir-like theme or atmosphere?  I know it's something I would want to include.

Aaron

Guys,

 

I love the dialogue , the intrigue used and the narrow camera angles, close ups without kissing. Ah, those were the days! Traveling on a shoe string budget!

 

Mike

I had also seen most of the film on TCM while on a treadmill at the gym. Found it on Netflix DVDs that I have a subscription to.

Scotie

Trainnut56,

I couldn't have said it better!

 

Looks very good.  I watch TCM a good but, but missed this one.  I am trying to think of the one I saw just a week or two ago on TCM in the evening that was on a train.  It was good too.

 

Scotie,

Thanks for pointing this one out to us!!

The acting is the flamboyant and overstated style of the 1940's.  I recall sitting in a theatre as a kid and thinking to myself, "people don't act that way in real life"!  Nonetheless, it did grab your attention! Today's "method" actors are for the most part boring.