WooHoo!!! Its Finally being reissued on DVD, and at a great price to boot!![:p]
What many consider perhaps the best train oriented movie ever made (Nah, “The General” is…) with Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine as the sadistic conductor Shack!!!
A#1 to Portland
Bout time![:D]
There are many interesting things about “Emperor of the North”. For one thing, no one has a real name. “Shack” is a railroad term for a conductor for example. The engineer is just called “the Hoghead” and the fireman “the Black” (which has nothing to do with his being African-American, that was a nickname for a fireman). The hoboes all use their monickers of course.
BTW “A-No.-1” (Lee Marvin’s character) was a real person, a hobo in the late nineteenth - early twentieth century who wrote several books about his adventures on the road. I think “Emperor of the North Pole” was one of his stories.
Don’t hold back your enthusiasm there Vic.[;)]
Do ya wanna borrow the popcorn machine?[:D]