NIGHT PASSAGE - Highly recommended Movie For OGR Members

Will have to watch, never saw it before.  I have read a lot about Audie but didnt know James Stuart was a WWII Vet.

This movie was filmed on the Silverton Branch. James Stewart sings "Follow the River" aboard a flatcar as the train passes the spectacular High Line.

Emil McComas,

    If you would like to know more about Major General Jimmy Stewart, visit his Museum in Indiana, Pa and read about a real WWII hero.  Most people today only know Jimmy Stewart as an actor, in reality he was one of the greatest WWII US Army Air Corps pilots who ever lived. Rising to the rank of General, via active combat promotions.

The picture of him above holding his buddy Audie Murphy in his arms, in the movie NIGHT PASSAGE, was framed and placed in Elaine & Jimmy Stewart's living room in all their different homes.  He had ultimate respect for his friend SGT Murphy and no matter where General Stewart was, when Murph walked in the room, Jimmy Stewart automatically stood up, not just because of military regulations, but because of his ultimate true respect, for one of the bravest soldiers General Stewart ever knew, per Jimmy Stewart "I am honored to call Audie Murphy my close friend".  Neither General Stewart or Major Murphy every stepped outside of the US Army In-active Reserve, they both passed away still serving the US Constitution, they loved so much.  Murph crashed in his private plane, due to engine failure, over the Tenn Mountains in 1971, Stewart pass away at home much later in California.

If you have time visit Indiana, Pa and learn about General Jimmy Stewart, a back woods Pa country boy, who became a big big man, as John Wayne said, I live everyday pretending to be the man, my good friend Jimmy Stewart really is.

PCRR/Dave

Saw Audie Murphy's grave. Audie was the most decorated man in the military. 

I thought I knew movies but I have never heard of this one. Don

Thank you for sharing.Great movie and great person

Jimmy Stewart is one of my favorite actors, if not "THE" favorite actor. I have seen almost all his movies including some of the best with Director Alfred Hitchcock (check out the "Rear Window").  General Jimmy flew B-17  and B-24 bombers into Nazi areas. He was a superb pilot.

Good flick...thanks for the recommendation. I never saw a Jimmy Stewart movie I didn't like!

-Pete

I sure agree with you about "Night Passage" and Jimmy Stewart and Audie Murphy. Both true heroes. I have NP on tape and watch it every so often. I also have "To Hell and Back" which is Murphy's true story. He was the real deal. Was proud to serve in his unit "The Rock of the Marne", the 3rd ID

Saw it a long time ago. Worth watching, if I remember.

Dave,

Thank you for a moving post. I have always loved Jimmy Stewart and never ever knew that he was in the same branch of service as my father as a Major General!

Never saw the movie even though I used to live in Durango, Co. (Beginning of the Silverton Line). Will see it now.

Incredible man, incredible life.

JohnJr

Jimmy Stewart, Audrey Hepburn, Boggy (Humphrey Bogart), Burt Lancaster and a few other actors are rare humans who will never be replaced nor duplicated...Sorry a little off topic, but it is about a train movie

I could add a couple of names to your list but that might also be accounted off topic. Actually I don't think it would be because all of my train projects remind me of some great pieces of Americana from the bygone Stewart/Murphy era and the U.S. railways of the time. Increasingly I think that's the main point of the hobby.