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Friday, 15 July 2011

Strangers on a Night Train

      The train, abandoned railroad station and long isolated tracks became distinctly American symbols used in the classic Film Noir as well as in Hardboiled fiction and gritty Noirish movies in general.
                                                    Strangers on a Train



Taking of Pelham 123


Narrow Margin


L'Homme du Train

Sleeping Car Murders

House of Bamboo

The Getaway


Get Carter

      The train tore along with angry irregular rhythm. It was having to stop at smaller and more frequent stations where it would wait impatiently for a moment , then attack the prairie again. But progress was imperceptible. The prairie only undulated like a vast pink-tan blanket being casually shaken.

Strangers on a Train
Patricia Highsmith
1950 

Le Cercle Rouge


Berlin Express

Charlotte Gray

Compartment C- Edward Hopper

Secrets in their Eyes

Brief Encounter

Bad Day at Black Rock


Double Indemnity

Vanishing Point

Night train


Bete Humaine

The Conformist

It Always Rains on Sunday

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