I googled him. He’s done ovr 200 TV shows and movies. My favorite was “Forbidden Planet” in 1956. It’s the movie where Robbie the Robot was introduced. It was SCARY if you were five years old.
Also, I’m pretty sure I saw him in a trailer for a new sitcom just today, so I guess he’s still acting. Can’t ever get enough of Leslie Nielsen.
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A long time ago we got together with some visitors who asked us about Mountain Driving. It is a serious subject to us at the time and done with attention to duty because life/death is involved. To keep things light, there were a few jokes told. To our amazement the visitors displayed no humor at all. They finally revealed that they were part of the insurance that covered the company.
I dont know it was possible to get through life without a laugh or at least a poke of fun at something in your work. If they found those cracks and jokes to be distasteful then they really need to pick up something else to do for fun.
The best among us were numbers one or twos on the radio keeping the stress levels down with laughter in the convoy when you are above the snowline on chains and 6 hours to go before safety.
To date we have seen some training films featuring Earl who would find himself in costly and time wasting situations. Never a film went by without at least a laughter from a orientation class that has been there and done that.
Sure Railroading is serious business, but if you cannot find traction once in a while to have a bit of fun, what good is it?
where do we put the religous freaks at do we place them at the yard office so the crews haft to fight them on the way out to the train? ( well maybe not thats what train masters are for) the better spot would be at busy road crossing stopping motorist and warning them on rail saftey and and their church… that may be the way to stop accidents people will avoid crossings afraid of these people.
A spoof done right might actually do some good. “The Simpsons” has been lampooning all of the paranoid mythes about nuclear power for 20 years. People don’t repeat those idiotic stories anymore for fear of being thought stupid enough to believe what they see on “The Simpsons”.
Comedy has been around even before the invention of TV and film, the court jester had a good paying gig until he failed too please the king and Queen and then, well you know!
I’d like to see a comedy movie about trains because I can’t get enough comedy or trains, I’d like to see a scene where the train pulls into a pit stop area and a crew rushes out to change the tires, or a scene where the engineer pulls into a car hop type diner and a gal on roller skates has to climb a ladder to place the meal tray on the window of the locomotive.
Why not have two trains in a drag race complete with all the Model train hobby stickers on the trains to advertise their sponsors.
A scene where the train is stopped and a hobo climbs up too the windshield and sprays the window and wipes it down for a tip???
And it would need a scene of a locomotive decked out with low rider hydraulics and a California paint job, with a gaint boom box on wheels as the tender , why not.
Comedy breaks up the hardships of life and without it life would be a drag that’s for sure.
The train would have 1st class passenger cars, all decked out in the finest of furnishings and then 2nd class cars over crowded and serviving happy meals and then 3rd class with the seats filled with people in rags with ores out the windows looking as though they are in the bottom of a ship rowing, all dark and musty, now thats funny!
Hummmm, I could go on all day, and at the end of the film a disclaimer stating that “No engineers reputations were harmed in the making of this movie”, I crack myself up sometimes!!!
SOmeone already mentioned Atomic Train as a so bad its MST3K material, I want to add “Under Siege 2” as another candidate for a movie so bad its funny
Ever see “Wrongfully Accused”? Theres a parody of the train wreck scene from “The Fugitive” where the train after hitting the bus and jumps the tracks and chases Neilson around the forest, its a hoot of a scene! Judge for yerselves…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVr5AJz2xNo
I love Youtube!
AMEN! HAHAHA! 
There are not words in the english language to describe what an abomination that movie was!
Since the film would be shot in California, it would need an absurd rivalry between Metrolink and Amtrak.
Andrew
I have mixed feelings about such a concept. I agree, it is unlikely that a film like AIRPLANE! could be made now. The film going public has changed too much, becoming increasingly stupid with a short attention span.
Back whn AIRPLANE! was made, it was common to have a big movie stay in theaters for a longer period of time, now movies barely stay in theaters long enough to sneeze at, not to mention that overall, movies are just simply overall getting worse in quality. Some good movies each year, but a lot of terrible ones out there.
Very seldom do you see a film now that actually makes you think. Most are just for a quick cheap laugh, or to shock and disgust you.
That and as a whole, the general public is just simply getting dumber, as marked by the string of idiots who have removed themselves from the gene pool by trespassing on rights of way.
I know there are smart people out there, but the idiots make themselves more well known.
There are a lot of people that still ask if the events in “Down Periscope” really happened down at the submarine museum here in Groton,CT.
If the movie was to be made, it would probally best be something that a railroad media company like Pentrex would be the best way to distribute it.
Right now, I do not feel this is a good time to make such a movie and show the the general public. One can only imagine seeing that truckers might have to say about it, maybe a bit paranoid, but with oil prices going up and traffic rightly returning to the rails, the last thing we need for the industry right now is something that portrays railoaders in anything short of a professional light.
That is just my two cents (and some assorted othe change and a rusty bus token.)
Unlike airlines, most people don’t know anything or experience anything about trains and for that reason alone, the movie would be a miserable flop.
You would all pick it apart, too.[;)]
You could include a scene of a railfan being chased from pubic property by an overzealous security guard. [}:)]