Yesterday I got an email from Kalmbach ballyhooing a vender selling Emperor of the North (my fav train film) on DVD. Wow ! I thought fumbling for my plastic card to go online and order, til a friend pointed out to me this link.[:0]
Same movie, less than half the price, released same day.[:D]
Just thought y’all might like to know!!
Yes, there was another thread on this a while back. Just be aware that this is not done in letter-box, but a pan-and-scan TV format.
$5.29? Heck yes! My favorite railroad movie. I will be sure to place an order June 6th. I was going to buy it at another online store for $20! Thanks for the link!
Make sure you get it in original wide-screen, not pan-and-scan. The director, Robert Aldrich took full Panavision advantage of both the trains and the Oregon scenery in this one, and full screen is going to rob you of half of the enjoyment, to say nohing of half the trains!
Neat film. Not my favorite train film, but it’s really well acted and photographed.
Tom
I enjoy watching Emperor of the North but my favorite train movie is The Train with Burt Lancaster released in the mid-60s sometime (I saw it in the local [read: native] theatre at Tahkli, Thailand sometime in early 1968. Several other GIs in the audience there that night had previously seen it stateside.) I don’t have a video of it but I have caught it three times on one of the satellite movie channels in the last year and a half.
I first saw Emperor of the North in the base theatre at Shepherd Air Force Patch, Texas in 1973. It was, I believe, originally released as Emperor of the North Pole but experienced lackluster ticket sales because people who attended it expected to see a film about the … Emperor of the North Pole.
The photography is terrific - great train shots but the screenplay is a real stinker. I didn’t see it again for ten to fifteen years when it suddenly began to show up on tv with its current title. It shows up every eight to ten months = I don’t always catch it but will if there’s nothing else going on. Enjoy!!
Amazon has that too!!! [;)]
Yeap
I was the one who found this on Amazon.com about a month ago and posted it here, great price isnt it! Can’t wait!
One of the grandaddies of all train movies–UNION PACIFIC–has just been released on DVD this month in the “Cecil B. deMille Collection” . No wide screen or color (the film was made in 1939). It’s worth a look if you have never seen it–a massive production about the building of the first transcontinental railroad in the 1860’s. Tons of old vintage railroad equipment (mostly from the Virginia and Truckee railroad), and some really exciting sequences. Of course, with any deMille film, you have the usual corny dialogue and overacting, but the production is definitely worth taking a look at. It’s a lot of fun–and those beautiful old steamers—!
Tom [^]