It is playing now on The Western Channel. The movie opens up with some great shots,including what looks like the Zephyr. I am settling into watching it now. Starring Edmond O'Brien,Sterling Hayden ,and others.
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I love the movies that came out all around that period, like this, Santa Fe with Randolph Scott, Kansas Pacific, etc.
All good train movies and plenty of western action to be had!
Sometime I'll have to do a movie marathon and watch all of these in a row!
Great movie one of my favorites. Don't forget Paul Fix as Engineer Monahan; Paul Fix the great character actor aka "Mica" from the rifleman. You can buy this movie on DVD from Amazon too.
great movies.
Also available on YouTube.
Originally Posted by Seacoast:
Great movie one of my favorites. Don't forget Paul Fix as Engineer Monahan; Paul Fix the great character actor aka "Mica" from the rifleman. You can buy this movie on DVD from Amazon too.
Paul Fix was also Dr. Piper, Captain Kirk's Medical Officer in the Star Trek pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"!
Originally Posted by Eddie Marra:
Originally Posted by Seacoast:
Great movie one of my favorites. Don't forget Paul Fix as Engineer Monahan; Paul Fix the great character actor aka "Mica" from the rifleman. You can buy this movie on DVD from Amazon too.
Paul Fix was also Dr. Piper, Captain Kirk's Medical Officer in the Star Trek pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"!
Indeed.Paul Fix was also a good friend of John Wayne; he helped Wayne develop his walk and gave him acting tips etc.You will see Fix in many John Wayne movies in supporting roles thru the years as they were also good friends.
Originally Posted by Seacoast:
Originally Posted by Eddie Marra:
Originally Posted by Seacoast:
Great movie one of my favorites. Don't forget Paul Fix as Engineer Monahan; Paul Fix the great character actor aka "Mica" from the rifleman. You can buy this movie on DVD from Amazon too.
Paul Fix was also Dr. Piper, Captain Kirk's Medical Officer in the Star Trek pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"!
Indeed.Paul Fix was also a good friend of John Wayne; he helped Wayne develop his walk and gave him acting tips etc.You will see Fix in many John Wayne movies in supporting roles thru the years as they were also good friends.
You do indeed! It's funny that the Doctors in the original Star Trek (John Hoyt-Boyce, Paul Fix-Piper, DeForest Kelley-McCoy) all had great character roles in Westerns!
Paul fix also wrote the screenplay for Tall in the Saddle. Another John Wayne
movie. And yes, the movie had a train at the beginning.
I haven't watched Denver and Rio Grande in quite a while. I have a copy of it, and seem to remember there being a lot of violence and shady actions. I'll have to watch it again! 
You can also watch this with Randolph Scott in Santa Fe and have it viewed from both points about the Raton Pass and Royal Gorge!
Just good, fun movies with great Western action, trains and fun acting. You can't go wrong for entertainment!
Norm,
I definitely like the old time movies with the trains, Whispering Smith (Alan Ladd) & Robert Presston, Night Passage, Audie Murphy & Jimmy Stewart, later The Train Robbers with John Wayne, Rod Taylor and Annie Margret, lots of great train movies. I wish they would make the Wrecker by Clive Cussler into a serious new movie, could you see Tom Select as Bell, they might have trouble casting a serious bad guy for the Wrecker however, what a great train movie that would be.
PCRR/Dave
Originally Posted by Pine Creek Railroad:
Norm,
I definitely like the old time movies with the trains, Whispering Smith (Alan Ladd) & Robert Presston, Night Passage, Audie Murphy & Jimmy Stewart, later The Train Robbers with John Wayne, Rod Taylor and Annie Margret, lots of great train movies. I wish they would make the Wrecker by Clive Cussler into a serious new movie, could you see Tom Select as Bell, they might have trouble casting a serious bad guy for the Wrecker however, what a great train movie that would be.
PCRR/Dave
I also recommend 2 British movies: Flying Scotsman with a very young Ray Milland, and The Titfield Thunderbolt. Both great movies with some great train scenes!
