Trains, Stations and movies

[charliechaplinfan]

I really hate having to travel by rail, waiting on station platforms, squeezing into trains, having to sit next to someone you'd rather not do but I love trains and train stations in movies. When they are in movies though, I love them, the mist created by the steam of the train seems to create a romantic feeling.

Brief Encounter - the station is 40 miles from here and has been turned into a visitors centre, it's just as it appears and carries the magic.
Summertime - Kate leaving Venice, leaving love behind.
Statione Termini - a whole film set in the bustling Rome station, again a love story
Un Homme Et Une Femme - another love story, meeting rather than parting
Some Like it Hot
The General
Anna Karenina
A Lady Vanishes
Flesh and the Devil - I know but that scene where Greta gets off the train is so memorable to me.
From Russia With Love
Back Street
Human Desire
Bhowani Junction
North By Northwest
Night Train To Munich
The Berlin Express
The Polar Express

two other mentions although not pleasureable in subject they are memorable

Dr Zhivago
Schindler's List

I'm sure I'll have missed the acton/war movies and anything remotely modern.

[MichiganJ]

A few more films with prominent train scenes:

A Hard Day's Night
Bridge on River Kwai
Strangers on a Train
Closely Watched Trains
Darjeeling Limited
Twentieth Century
Silver Streak
Shanghai Express
Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Runaway Train

Silents would include:
The Great Train Robbery
West-Bound Limited
The Wrecker
Our Hospitality

[mrsl]

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I guess because I love the movie I have to say The Harvey Girls, but my very favorite movie with a train as a supporting character is Brief Encounter, which has already been mentioned.
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[JackFavell]

I love all your picks! I love romantic train movies, but all I can think of are the not so nice ones.

Leave Her to Heaven
Double Indemnity

That one with Charles MacGraw and Marie Windsor, I can't for the life of me remember the title.

[JackFavell]

Love in the Afternoon has that wonderful ending.....

[knitwit45]

The Narrow Margin, Jackie...

and Since You Went Away with Jennifer Jones breaking my heart every time I see it. I start blubbering before he even gets on the train!

Oh, and Now, Voyager has a wonderful sequence at the station.

How about Goodbye Mr. Chips (either version) with the kiss goodbye

[charliechaplinfan]

I knew you'd all name some more and many that I love too. Ones I should have got but did't remember

Strangers on a Train
Twentieth Century
Goodbye Mr Chips

Thanks for reminding me.

The Harvey Girls, I saw that for the first time last week and loved it, thanks to Judy.

[JackFavell]

Oh now I'm going to blub thinking of Jennifer Jones in SYWA.....

Thanks for jogging my memory.

A modern movie I really liked was The Darjeeling Limited, though it probably is not to everyone's taste. Not romantic at all, but very quirky funny.

[MissGoddess]

Besides those mentioned, my favorites:

The Iron Horse
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Quiet Man
Pilgrimage
The Rising of the Moon ("A Minute's Wait")
Holiday Affair
Terror by Night
The Lady Vanishes
Man of the West
The Tall Target
Honky Tonk
Suspicion
Flame of India (aka Northwest Frontier)
Union Pacific

[JackFavell]

Meet John Doe! Probably my favorite Capra scene ever - when Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan run away from the healots, they hop a boxcar and are playing their music silhouetted by the night sky.....

I don't know why I didn't think of The Iron Horse, or any of the other Ford films.

[charliechaplinfan]

Wild Boys of the Road a 1933 William Wellman precode about young boys who hitch rides in boxcars, a film about the depression that really brought it home to me how desperate the early '30s. were.

[movieman1957]

MissG;

A certain someone we know might rave on the opening depot scene and related train sequences of "Once Upon A Time In The West."

[MissGoddess]

MissG;

A certain someone we know might rave on the opening depot scene and related train sequences of "Once Upon A Time In The West."

Best part of the movie! Only one thing wrong with it: it leads to the rest of it.

[movieman1957]

I knew I'd get something out of you. My afternoon laugh.