This strange blend of French série noire and English Brit noir was filmed in glowing Technicolor on location in Holland and Paris. Runaway bookkeeper Claude Rains teams up with the highly fatale Märta Torén, evading the law in pursuit of the good life promised by a valise packed with money. Georges Simenon’s crime tale has an undertaste of Poetic Realist rebelliousness.
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
Blu-ray
ClassicFlix
1952 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 82 min. / The Paris Express / Street Date May 29, 2018 / 29.99
Starring: Claude Rains, Märta Torén, Marius Goring, Herbert Lom, Anouk Aimée, Felix Aylmer, Ferdy Mayne, MacDonald Parke, Lucie Mannheim, Eric Pohlmann.
Cinematography: Otto Heller
Film Editor: Vera Campbell, Arthur H. Nadel
Original Music: Benjamin Frankel
From the book by Georges Simenon
Produced by Josef Shaftel, Raymond Stross
Written and Directed by Harold French
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By is from a 1938 novel by Georges Simenon, one of...
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
Blu-ray
ClassicFlix
1952 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 82 min. / The Paris Express / Street Date May 29, 2018 / 29.99
Starring: Claude Rains, Märta Torén, Marius Goring, Herbert Lom, Anouk Aimée, Felix Aylmer, Ferdy Mayne, MacDonald Parke, Lucie Mannheim, Eric Pohlmann.
Cinematography: Otto Heller
Film Editor: Vera Campbell, Arthur H. Nadel
Original Music: Benjamin Frankel
From the book by Georges Simenon
Produced by Josef Shaftel, Raymond Stross
Written and Directed by Harold French
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By is from a 1938 novel by Georges Simenon, one of...
- 6/12/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Actually, it’s a still we don’t love– but we do love the movie!
Just look:
This rather fuzzy, poorly printed still is typical of the shabby treatment accorded (in the Us at least) to producer Josef Shaftel’s 1972 attempt to make the definitive Alice movie to mark the centeniary of Lewis Carroll’s completion of both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Although it premiered at Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theater, none of the major studios were interested in picking it up and this Veddy British film went out play largely at kiddie matinees courtesy of American National Pictures, which specialized in “family” nature films. It’s been on Us tv but over the years has become increasingly obscure despite entering the public domain.
2001: A Space Odyssey d.p. Geoffrey Unsworth’s precise Todd Ao 35 compositions (with some brilliant use of the...
Just look:
This rather fuzzy, poorly printed still is typical of the shabby treatment accorded (in the Us at least) to producer Josef Shaftel’s 1972 attempt to make the definitive Alice movie to mark the centeniary of Lewis Carroll’s completion of both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Although it premiered at Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theater, none of the major studios were interested in picking it up and this Veddy British film went out play largely at kiddie matinees courtesy of American National Pictures, which specialized in “family” nature films. It’s been on Us tv but over the years has become increasingly obscure despite entering the public domain.
2001: A Space Odyssey d.p. Geoffrey Unsworth’s precise Todd Ao 35 compositions (with some brilliant use of the...
- 9/6/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
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