Re: TRAINS - 100 Greatest Train Movies magazine
Author: Captain Underpants
Date: 01-27-2010 - 01:30
Then there's "The Titfield Thunderbolt," produced by Ealing Studios in England in the 1950s; local townsfolk take over abandoned branchline, with the vicar as engine driver by virtue of having taken a correspondence course. Stanley Holloway plays the drunken member of the landed gentry who bankrolls the railway so he can drink on the train before the pubs open. I don't know if it made the Trains top 100 since I didn't buy the mag, but I'm convinced it's the finest film ever made. Easily obtained through Amazon.com.