Thanks for the reminder about Danger Lights. A friend gave me that movie a few years ago. The train scenes are great, and the rest needs to be taken in the context of the times and the technology that was available.
It made me wonder how much of the interaction in that movie was considered to be acceptable behavior at the time (with extra drama, of course). I hope that the "management techniques" employed by Dan Thorn weren't common at the time, but who knows. Also makes me consider how people in other countries might react to current American movies - do they think that they represent normal life in this country?