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...simple georgraphic limitations of the plot account for this anomaly; Hitchcock always works best with a script that offers a wide variety of settings and locations that allow his prodigious imagination its rein. And there is, after all, only so so you can do with the interior of a railway car. All of which does not detract from the film's credentials as a bona fide Hitchcock. In fact, viewers who encounter difficulties with the implicit morbidity and amorality that mark some of the Master's works will find this glib comedy-thriller a welcome relief. Dame May Whitty plays...
After the wheel was invented, some cave dwellers undoubtedly complained that ruts would ruin the footpaths. Many millenniums later, in the 1840s, farmers of New York's Suffolk County rebelled against another recent invention; they tore up railway tracks, put the torch to depots and caused wrecks by loosening rail ties. The iron horse was evil, they complained; its sparks set fields afire, its bells and noisy clatter shocked cows into withholding milk, and its soot soiled laundry. Decades later, the first autos were denounced for scaring horses and for spewing objectionable fumes...
...when Han Fu-ch'ū, the warlord of the Northwestern Army, came to Tsinan. I joined some of the school's teachers and students in organizing a touring theatrical group that went to Peking. I left without telling my mother, only mailing her a letter at the railway station just before the train pulled...
Henry Brock is an English bachelor and a railway man with a precise idea of heaven: "The right sort of train to London ... a morning train, with a good breakfast car, lots of coffee and toast and bacon and eggs and marmalade, the newspaper, and two or three hours of pleasantly changing views through the window." Alas, such bliss is denied him. On holiday in Italy, Brock and his girl friend are drowned when their cruise ship sinks. Because of his record of unrepented fornications, he is sentenced to the Second Circle of Hell -Dante's Circle...
...Poland. Volatile Poles continued to pressure the government over aftereffects of the food strikes and riots of last June. At that time, workers tore up railway tracks near Warsaw, set fire to Communist Party headquarters in Radom and brought the nation to a five-hour standstill until a panicked government rescinded a rise in food prices. When hundreds of workers were arrested, 20 prominent intellectuals, including Novelist Jerzy Andrzejewski, formed a Workers' Defense Committee to mobilize public support for the workers, who had been viciously beaten by the police...