How do you weigh the cultural heritage of a nation against the value of human life? That’s the subtext of The Train, a wholly persuasive, intelligent thiller crisply directed by John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate) with documentary-like real...
In Alfred Hitchcock’s most quick-witted and devilish comic thriller, the beautiful Margaret Lockwood, traveling across Europe by train, meets a charming spinster who then seems to disappear into thin air. The younger woman turns investigator and find...
This film is programmed to be shown together with The Lady Vanishes
Arguably the GPO Film Unit’s most famous and acclaimed title, Night Mail is a 1936 documentary film featuring a journey by a London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) mail train fr...
Fritz Lang's 1954 American version of the Zola novel (and Renoir film) La bete humaine. Gloria Grahame, at her brassiest, pleads with Glenn Ford to do away with her slob of a husband, Broderick Crawford. Lang mines the railroad setting for a remarkab...