Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lady on a Train (Universal) sets out to elicit chills and chuckles, but never quite reaches its modest destination...
Soon after seeing murder done through a bleak window, Deanna Durbin (the lady) gets off the train, and begins a half-farcical, half-melodramatic hunt for the killer. She is variously helped and hin dered by assorted menaces, red herrings and foozlebrains - like Ralph Bellamy and Dan Duryea (as two brothers who loathe each other), George Coulouris (a devilish butler), Allen Jenkins (a sinister chauffeur), David Bruce (a mystery author), and Edward Everett Horton (Edward Everett Horton...
Questions & Answers. Anxious, hopelessly confused, Jane decided to take the night train to David's country home. The London station was packed with weary soldiers, sailors, workmen, mothers and children. A friendly corporal appeared out of the yellow fog, and helped Jane through the milling crowd...
Aboard the train, the corporal and his three buddies "commandeered" a first-class compartment, and added a pregnant mother and her children ("someone suitableand deserving") to the group. One of the soldiers questioned the pregnant woman, whose husband worked in an anti-tank gun factory. "[Your husband] didn't come out on strike, did he?" asked the soldier. "Yes, he did-twice." "Why?" asked the soldier. "They wasn't paying enough, and it was terrible long hours." "We could have done with those guns," snapped the soldier. . . . Suddenly he blushed and became apologetic: "Sorry, miss...
...Salzburg was Europe's place-to-go in August. Since 1842, the city's Austrian Burgers had honored Native Son Mozart with a summer music festival, and since 1900 it had attracted music lovers. Then, in 1934, Arturo Toscanini moved to Salzburg, and thousands came by train and plane to see and hear him. After Anschluss and the departure of Fascist-hater Toscanini, Germany's Wilhelm Furtwangler took over and the festivals became Nazi celebrations...