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The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)
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Overview
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Lawrence Edward Watkin (written by)
Release Date:
8 June 1956 (USA)
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Tagline:
A true-life spy story of ultimate suspense. High speed and inconceivable bravery!
Plot:
This is based on a true story. During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of...
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1 nomination
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One of the most historically accurate movies to come out of Hollywood!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Fess Parker | ... | James J. Andrews | |
| Jeffrey Hunter | ... | William A. Fuller | |
| Jeff York | ... | William Campbell | |
| John Lupton | ... | William Pittenger | |
| Eddie Firestone | ... | Robert Buffum | |
| Kenneth Tobey | ... | Anthony Murphy | |
| Don Megowan | ... | Marion A. Ross | |
| Claude Jarman Jr. | ... | Jacob Parrott | |
| Harry Carey Jr. | ... | William Bensinger | |
| Leonard P. Geer | ... | J.A. Wilson (as Lennie Geer) | |
| George Robotham | ... | William Knight | |
| Stan Jones | ... | Wilson Brown | |
| Marc Hamilton | ... | John Wollam | |
| John Wiley | ... | John M. Scott | |
| Slim Pickens | ... | Pete Bracken |
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Andrews' Raiders (USA) (TV title)
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85 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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Only thirteen pieces of equipment were actually used: two full-sized locomotives, one yard engine, three passenger cars, two iron box cars, and five wooden box cars that were built specifically to be destroyed in the film. The various pieces of equipment wore different numbers on different trains throughout the movie.
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Goofs:
Anachronisms: The locomotive Texas is equipped with a Westinghouse air brake, which was not invented until 1872 and not in common use until the 1880s.
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Quotes:
James J. Andrews:
[shows Fuller a letter] You don't get a letter like that from Brigadier General Beauregard just for running Quinine.
William A. Fuller: No, I reckon you don't. I'd give my right arm just to serve under that man.
James J. Andrews: *You are*! This railroad is the artery that pumps fresh blood into the army of Mississippi on the left land, and to the army of Northern Virginia on the right. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee would *perish* without men like you!
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William A. Fuller: No, I reckon you don't. I'd give my right arm just to serve under that man.
James J. Andrews: *You are*! This railroad is the artery that pumps fresh blood into the army of Mississippi on the left land, and to the army of Northern Virginia on the right. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee would *perish* without men like you!
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Referenced in Living Steam: Virginia and Truckee Then and Now at the Nevada State Railroad Museum (2008) (V)
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Soundtrack:
Sons of Old Aunt Dinah
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Finally, those of us who are railroad and civil war fans have an excellent widescreen version of this movie, with the release of The Great Locomotive Chase on DVD. While some of the details in the story line are not accurate history, Disney did a very good job. The trains even have link and pin couplers which are virtually never seen in movie accounts of the period.