jimcap posted:Dan Padova posted:jimcap posted:Dan Padova posted:Another movie came to mind just now. I'm going back about sixty years. On TV I was watching a movie where a guy is running from the police or a gangster, not sure. Anyway, he gets his foot caught in a switch track just as the points are closing. An F unit is fat approaching. Of course we don't see the blood & guts. But in those days we had imaginations.
Maybe someone can name the movie. I sure can't at the moment.
I think it was Sullivan's Travels 1941. A bum robs Sullivan , and run across the rail yard and get hit by the train. Every one thinks it was Sullivan.
Jim, that's not the film I was thinking of. As a matter of fact, I watched Sullivan's Travels only a few weeks ago on TCM. Sullivan's Travels was a light comedy. The film I'm trying to recall is anything but comedic.
You are correct, I watch it again, The bum doesn't get his foot caught in the switch, he just get run down by a fast moving train.
I would call it a comedy/drama as it does get dark at times.
Wow, my memory is shorter than I thought.....LOL I didn't recall that scene from Sullivan's Travels.