The "Films on a Train" Blu-ray thread

[KyotoKid]

Maybe you could include either dvds with the blu rays or perhaps a #3 list just to differentiate between them as there are some good movies which may never get a blu ray release which would be informative for those looking. One stand out scene was early in Giant when a steam engine passed in the distant background behind Rock Hudson, it was brief but a great shot for those how love steam. There is a bit of train action in East Of Eden as well.

[Blu-Velvet]

Well, thanks to this thread, I decided to revisit the Blu-ray of DENVER & RIO GRANDE -- fun film, lots of wonderful train footage, gorgeous scenery, and mostly beautiful HD Technicolor transfer (a few minor issues here and there).

To keep in the mood, afterwards I watched the Laurel & Hardy short taking place 99% on a train, BERTH MARKS, which is only on DVD but the transfer is really amazing, better than many Blu-rays, even projected on a big screen. Sure wish that set would make it to Blu-ray.

Now that you've got two lists, another great movie on Blu-ray with a substantial train sequence at the beginning is THE MUSIC MAN.

[TheGeneral]

Shanghai Noon could fit into List #2

The train scenes aren't essential to the plot ... but the starting shows a good number of scenes about them riding on the train, at first at odds with one another and then as the movie progresses that changing...

[Wireduck1]

This is a bit eclectic, but:

Blu Ray List 1: Might include " The Titfield Thunderbolt", "Water for Elephants", "Hugo".

Blu Ray List 2: Might include "The Natural" (1st 3rd), "Argento's Sleepless" (memorable 1st 1/4),
"49th Parallel" (truly great 2nd half), "The Red Shoes" (memorable finale), "Strange love of Martha Ivers" (memorable 1st 1/4).

If you were to include memorable scenes in train stations Brian De Palma would certainly have a few mentions like "Carlito's Way" and "The Untouchables"; not to mention "Casablanca" "Harry Potter (all?)" and "Young Frankenstein".

[RebelPrince1986]

For your second list, Water For Elephants features a train pretty heavily and in some crucial scenes.

Fried Green Tomatoes includes a pivotal scene involving a train.

A chunk of Dumbo takes place on a train.

Stand By Me features a pretty heavy train theme.

[KyotoKid]

Here is another one: The Brain ( blu ray ) with David Niven.

[Batmon77]

Originally Posted by Batmon77

So its really Films w/ a major Train scene or about Trains.......

The Warriors - The film starts in the subway. They take a long train from Brooklyn to The Bronx. The have to make it home via subway, and a couple of main stations are meeting points for the gang. With a many in car scenes.
Alot more platform/station though.
Nighthawks - One chase scene between Wolfgar and Deke DeSilva....
Spider-Man 2 - Saves an entire runaway subway train
Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Secret Station houses Richard Parker's secret subway car lab.
Deathwish - One vigilante scene inside a subway car
Skyfall - One fight on top of a moving train, One chase scene throughout the train, with an entire train being derailed onto the protagonist.

All List #2

[rkolinski]

The Last Station

[kaseaver]

Crashout (1955) has an extended scene on a train.

[HD Goofnut]

Does Mad Max Beyond Thunderome count?

[noirjunkie]

Originally Posted by KyotoKid

Maybe you could include either dvds with the blu rays or perhaps a #3 list just to differentiate between them as there are some good movies which may never get a blu ray release which would be informative for those looking.

I'm planning to do that (create a third "bonus" list of DVD releases that fit the criteria for blu-ray list #1) once I get caught up on all of the new suggestions people have posted. I'm mostly there, but it will take a bit more time.

[CastrosfriendChe]

[noirjunkie]

Originally Posted by CastrosfriendChe

Added. Thanks.

[thebard]

Fight scene in & on top of a bullet train.

[Don Corleone]

When is silver streak coming out (Pryor /wilder)

[Blu-Velvet]

Originally Posted by Don Corleone

When is silver streak coming out (Pryor /wilder)

You mean this?

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Silve.../48895/#Review

Or do you just mean a better transfer with some bonus features?

[thebard]

No one's yet mentioned Nymphomaniac Vol. 1...?

[noirjunkie]

Originally Posted by thebard

No one's yet mentioned Nymphomaniac Vol. 1...?

My guess is that not many people have seen it (myself included). Can you give a summary of the train content?

[PowellPressburger]

What about Brief Encounter? (It has been so long since I've seen the film it seemed like so much of it took place at the train station.

I suppose to make the list more than half the film should take place on a train or surrounding it. Otherwise Some Like It Hot could be an honorable mention.

I do like listings like this, to be honest I'm always watching movies based on my mood. So rainy days I try to come up with lists of films where it seems rainy/ gloomy much of the time. It can go from Don't Look Now, to Godzilla (rainy Remake) Blade Runner, Clue, Seven (until the ending of course)

[thebard]

Originally Posted by noirjunkie

My guess is that not many people have seen it (myself included). Can you give a summary of the train content?

[Show spoiler]One of the early scenes on the film, end of "Chapter 1" after the childhood exposition.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

...accompanied by her best friend B (Sophie Kennedy Clark), Joe engages with multiple people sexually on a train carriage. After having sex in the toilet with many of the men she comes across, she sexually assaults one of them who had denied her advances. The whole purpose of such a sex train-trip, was no other than winning a bet which had a candy bag as a prize.