When the train is on the actual bridge, after the first half of it has gone across (to collapse into the valley), there is a brief shot of the first half of it that has braked, slowly rolling backwards off the bridge. Whats the deal with that? Is there an engine at either end? I thought the train was out of control?
shareI think there are several variations on the ending. In the version I have I did miss the bit about the second half rolling back or rather slowing down. This bit I saw in the cinema in 1977.
The rolling back is quite plausible if the train gets divided on a rising gradient. We also see Max the conductor applying the hand brake.
Why all the passengers didn't apply the handbrake in the first place is a mystery..........
The passengers were under the impression they were going somewhere they needed to go. However, after a certain point, its realized that this is BS ...
The gradient theory is a good one. Hadn't thought of that. Would have to have been a decede grade because the train really scoots backward (to the hillside it just came from) at a good pace, it doesn't simply crawl along.
They must have sent an engine to pull the cars off the bridge, for in the next shot after that the surviving part of the train is stopped when people are getting off into a field. Impossible if the cars were rolling on their own.
shareQuestion: When the train rolls backwards, is there a man and his wife holding each other crying, then he takes a gun, shoots her, then shoots himself?
I've been looking for a movie that I saw back in the day, where that scenario happened, but I can't remember the name of the movie, or the names of any of the stars in the movie.
I'm not sure if this is the movie I'm thinking of or not. Please help, guys. Thanks!
D.
Suzuki Samurai, you Bensonhurst piece of *beep*
Certainly not this film but I've never seen any film with that scenario. Hopefully someone else can come up with the title.
"Thus, we began our longest journey together."
Adult Scout, 'To Kill A Mockingbird'
Thanks. I hope so, too.
I remember thinking when I was watching the scene that the people they were rolling back towards were some kind of savages/cannibals or something, and that the man had killed his wife and himself because death was better than what was waiting for them back where they'd come from.
I remember feeling sorry for them, because they had originally thought they were going to escape. They had thought that they'd been saved, until the thing holding their car broke, and they found themselves going right back to their captors.
I have been trying to find that movie for decades.
D.
Suzuki Samurai, you Bensonhurst piece of *beep*
I know this scene - black and white - 40s movie?? It was on TCM very recently. Gansters, or whatever, have surrounded the train, with an old woman being the main character?? (She didn't die, in it). I'll IMDB subject matter - it'll come up......
However, in the film "Five Came Back" (39), and its remake (same director!)"Back from Eternity" (56), an older couple shoots themselves before the cannibals can get them (too much weight in the crashed plane, and they must be left behind). They do it as the plane starts rolling away - is that it?????
That is the closest that anyone's ever come to describing the movie I'm looking for, but I don't remember it being in black and white.
It could've been, though. I was really young when I saw it on TV. I'm in my forties now. :)
D.
"...cookies so valuable, they are hand-delivered by uniformed officers."
So it wasn't one of the movies I suggested, with the plane, but the first? (I'm not sure which you mean.) "Back from Eternity" is in color, however.
shareJust read your post on the Cassandra Crossing. The movie you are looking for is "Dark of the Sun" starring Rod Taylor, Yevette Mimeux, and Jim Brown. The train is sent into a town with a diamond mine to retrieve the diamonds before the rebels get there. As they are leaving, a mortar shell hits the engine, and the train rolls back into the town. This movie was also known as "The Mercenaries" in some countries.
Hope this helps,
George
That was answered last year in the thread.
shareI think the movie you are talking about is called "Dark of the Sun." Made in 1968 with Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimeaux. They are mercenaries in the Congo. I've always remembered that scene even though I saw it as a kid; don't really know why.
BWW
DUDE, THAT'S THE MOVIE!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
I just read the description and comments for that movie, and when I read the part about the chainsaw fight, and the gang rape of one of the men by a bunch of savages, I knew that was the movie. And Calvin Lockhart was in it!!!
When I was a kid, I watched that movie, and BUGGED OUT! I couldn't believe what I was seeing on the screen! Awesome movie!!!
D.
"...cookies so valuable, they are hand-delivered by uniformed officers."
You're welcome. Now of course, I need to go find a copy of DOTS.
BWW
I don't recall seeing the detached section rolling back away from the bridge.
Maybe it was just the angle of the camera and the breaking of the wheels that made it look like it was going backwards.
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