Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tricolors, no flowers, no formal reception-only a couple of French officials, a doctor and two nurses waited on the platform at the Strasbourg station. The train from Germany pulled in, and eight men got out. They were reluctant wanderers, helpless victims of two mighty tyrannies, home for the first time in seven years. As P.W.s, they had been pushed around Europe and Asia, and released finally a fortnight ago from a Soviet labor camp in Kiev...
...backlog of pop songs recorded, found he liked the work. In a short time, as repertory boss for Mercury, he had Vic Damone and Frankie Laine turning out smash hits, topped 1,000,000 copies apiece with such numbers as Cry of the Wild Goose, Mule Train, and Lucky Old Sun. Then came the move to the bigger job at Columbia...
Peking Express (Hal Wallis; Paramount) sets out on a topical excursion into Communist China, but quickly turns into a typical train-borne melodrama, running on the same tracks as 1932's Shanghai Express. For all its world-shaking airs and its batting around of ideological platitudes, the picture carries (and is carried by) the standard load of sinister passengers scheming at cross-purposes, and the hero's burp gun has the last word...
While Cotten busily talks up the virtues of democracy, War Lord Miller stabs his wife, orders his uniformed bandits to stop the train and seize the passengers as hostages, shoots stray characters in the back, tortures the journalist with a hot iron, and earmarks Corinne for what was regarded in some circles, back in the days when this plot was young, as the fate worse than death. In the carnage that rights these wrongs, Peking Express seems to prove only that human life in this type of melodrama is almost as cheap as in China itself...
Strangers on a Train. Alfred Hitchcock's implausible but dazzlingly tricky thriller about a psychopath (Robert Walker) with a new scheme for foolproof murder (TIME, July...