The Greatest Movie Scenes: Which was the Greatest Scene on a train?

[Faygo Kid]

Yes, it's a poll. For your entertainment. Hey, whaddaya say?

[Faygo Kid]

1. All great, but I admit, tough to beat Lemmon/McCurtnis

[SnohoDem]

2. "It might turn into a _surprise_ party."

Jack Lemmon
Some Like it Hot

One of the funniest scenes ever put on film.

[Faygo Kid]

3. So very true. Did you vote for it?

[SnohoDem]

31. Of course,

mine was the second vote (not just for SLIH, but of all the votes).

[AccessGranted]

4. Tom Cruise and Rebecca DeMornay in Risky Business

I thought it was cool the way the filmed the scene.

[Faygo Kid]

5. Wasn't that a streetcar? Or a subway car?

Not that the Deed was any less pleasant.

[dysfunctional press]

17. it was the el.

nt

[jobycom]

18. IIRC, the line was: Have you ever made love on a real train?

If that train was real enough for Rebecca Demornay, it's real enough for me!

[SharonRB]

7. Exactly the one was thinking of.

[Faygo Kid]

9. Figured a Michigan fan would come up with that one.

With all due respect! (well, maybe less than due. . .).

[SharonRB]

10. And the connection is....?

[Faygo Kid]

12. Your Avatar! This is a movie post, and thanks .

This was a fun response to another Michigander from a Spartoonie. Are you taking this seriously? If so, GEEZ. Not sure about what you are getting at, but be of good cheer! Even Wolverines and Spartans can hold hands. . .

[SharonRB]

43. Sorry -- My response was also in jest.

I wasn't taking it seriously at all -- it's so hard for tone of voice to come through in a post. I guess I should have posted this: :sarcasm:

No hard feelings taken or meant!

[jobycom]

15. That was my pick, too. nt

[dysfunctional press]

20. rebecca demornay with jon voight & eric roberts- runaway train

she looked a little different than she did in risky business.

[jobycom]

21. Oh heck yeah. Excellent pick. nt

[originalpckelly]

24. That is such a good scene, and movie in general...

that was back Tom hadn't "jumped the couch."

[undeterred]

25. I thought we weren't allowed to mention him.

[bertha katzenengel]

6. When Momma is nearly thrown off the train in "Throw Momma From the Train"

I loved that movie.

[SharonRB]

8. That was a riot!

[ghostsofgiants]

11. Luis Buñuel's "That Obscure Object of Desire" has some great train scenes

[yurbud]

13. German guy who eats salad with his fingers in HOSTEL

he shows up again later in the story, but the first appearance is creepy enough.

That movie is in my top three scariest movies.

[Faygo Kid]

14. All right. TIME OUT. The obscure does not establish the worthy.

We are getting off track here, and I could do the same, but let's go back to trains. Like, It Happened One Night. Or, On the Good Ship Lollipop, both from the mid-30s. Do I have to go there?

[yurbud]

34. OY! You didn't say G RATED train scenes

[dysfunctional press]

16. silver streak with richard pryor & gene wilder...

should be there...

"...well, i left my jag in kansas city"

[Faygo Kid]

22. Festival Express: I forgot so very many!

Well, trains are so common! Yep, you are right. You are all right, of course. But, Festival Express - the very best in Rock going across Canada in 1971 - must be seen as well. Surprise yourself, and others.

[dysfunctional press]

19. emperor of the north...lee marvin, ernest borgnine, and keith carradine

nt

[progmom]

23. Palm Beach Story

[Faygo Kid]

28. I was going to add that. Claudette Colbert, one of my favorites.

Make that, maybe my all time favorite actress. And hormones count, too.

[txwhitedove]

26. Murder on the Orient Express, 1974

with Sidney Lumet, Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman

[Magrittes Pipe]

27. Scusi!

[Faygo Kid]

29. Lovely photo. WTF?

Seriously, I am old, so what is that from?

P.S. Get it right. Take the cannolis. Leave the gun.

[Arkham House]

30. Has to be Connery vs Shaw...

...but speaking of Shaw--the poker game with newman in "The Sting" is pretty cool, too...

[pokerfan]

39. What was I supposed to do?

Call him for cheating better than me? In front of the others?

[PassingFair]

32. Hermione meets Harry Potter.

Lots of cool train scenes in all 3 movies.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

33. Shadow of a Doubt

SPOILER ALERT








Joseph Cotten tries to push Teresa Wright off a train after he realizes that she knows his secret.

[marjorieann]

35. Runaway Train

1985, Jon Voight. The whole film.

[radwriter0555]

36. I cannot BELIEVE this thread got to 35 posts without RUNAWAY TRAIN! Holy

crap, what is wrong with DUers these days?

Eric Roberts, Rebecca DeMornay and John Voight in the absolute most amazing, stand out and steller performances ever captured on film?

Well, maybe not DeMornay per se, but Voight and Roberts, absolutely brilliant.. brilliant.

[jobycom]

47. It didn't. See post 20

[YankeyMCC]

44. That's what I first thought of when I saw the poll n/t

[Mz Pip]

37. Palm Beach Story

Claudette Colbert. Best train scene ever. Absolutely hysterical.

Preston Sturgis did some terrific movies. :-)

Mz Pip
:dem:

[CanuckAmok]

38. You know what I like about you? You're tall.

Narrow Margin, in case you didn't recognise the quote.

[Bucky]

40. Lee Marvin & Ernest Borgnine fight w/hammers: "Emperor of the North Pole"

A totally brutal fight scene. Sledgehammers to the shins, axes swung like bats, train-coupling hardware to the skulls, garrotting by giant link chains, and the fight just goes on and on... at least a ten minute fight scene. More intense than you can imagine and they ooze twice as much testosterone as blood. Not, repeat, not for the faint of heart.

Emperor of the North Pole

presidential

[grasswire]

41. Victor Victoria

James Garner's girlfriend Leslie Anne Warren ("Norma") has just been sent back to Chicago because she's driving him berserk (he's a gangster in love with Julie Andrews, a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman), and she's walking through the train cars nattering to Garner's bodyguard (Alex Karras), who's walking on the outside of the train. It's a terrific bit of comedy, finessed when she steps out onto the end of the last car and the blast of air blows her dress up into the air to show her bright pink underthings.

Warren plays a terrific role in this, my favorite movie.

[grasswire]

42. wait, wait! The Marx Bros.

The movie was "Out West." Harpo was hilarious.

[terrya]

45. "The Manchurian Candidate" - the original

When Colonel Marco (Frank Sinatra) and Rosie (Janet Leigh) meet for the first time on a train. Great scene with some of the weirdest dialogue.

[swag]

46. I like the one in "Ripley's Game" where Tom Ripley, played

by John Malkovich, is about to duck into the restroom to strangle his quarry. He says to his partner, "Here hold my watch. My wife gave it to me, and if it breaks I'll kill everyone on this train."

A much more entertaining movie than two more well known Ripley movies, The American Friend and The Talented Mr. Ripley.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

48. Jackie Chan in "Legend of the Drunken Master"

His fight with the old man under the train was pretty friggin impressive.

[chemenger]

49. Breakheart Pass

starring Charles Bronson. Especially the scene where the coupler breaks between the govenor's coach and the troop cars. The last three cars roll backwards down the track, picking up speed until they're going so fast that they can't negociate a curve.