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ADVENTURE HOLLYWOOD 9 95 All DVDs on this page Only $ ! each Parallel Tracks The Railroad and Silent Cinema Kirby. From its earliest days, the cinema has enjoyed a special kinship with the railroad, a mutual attraction based on similar ways of handling speed, visual perception and the promise of a journey. Exploring that relationship, this book analyzes dozens of silent films, including icons such as The General and The Great Train Robbery as well as many films rarely discussed. 352 pages, B&W photographs, 6"x 9", softcover...............#R03523N Reg: $ 23.95 Now: $ 9.95 Special Purchase! Save Over 55 % The General “It’s still a wonder to see the quicksilver Keaton executing mathematically precise, guffaw-inducing gags and pratfalls.” – Entertainment Weekly. Based on a true Civil War incident, this comedy classic stars Buster Keaton as a southern railroad engineer whose beloved train (with fiancée Helen Mack on board) is hijacked by Union forces. One of the finest railroad films ever made, this 1927 silent film is accompanied by a musical score. B&W, 1 hr. 18 min.......................#RV6072A Was: $ 24.95 NEW! Blu-ray – This Hi-Def version includes three musical scores to choose from, behind-the-scenes home movie footage, an introduction by Orson Welles, and the featurette, The Buster Express. Dolby Digital 5.1...................................#RV3247E $ 39.95 SALE! Save 60 % Kansas Pacific This 1953 action-adventure film follows the struggle to build the federally chartered Kansas Pacific Railway in the 1860s when, on the eve of the Civil War, southern rebels attack the railroad’s builders in an attempt to stop the line from crossing the western frontier. B&W, 1 hr. 13 min...........#RV2003AA Once Upon a Time in the West Starring Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda, this epic, 1968 western revolves around the construction of a transcontinental rail line through Arizona and two men’s attempt to save a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad. Includes great steam locomotive and railroad-building action! Widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, Rated PG-13. 2 hrs. 45 min...........#RV3054D 18 Hours of Action! Stories of the Century Matt Clark Railroad Detective Journey back to the Old West with railroad detective Matt Clark (“Big” Jim Davis), who tracks down notorious truelife outlaws and bandits preying on the railroad. Each volume includes 12 episodes of the Emmy-winning, mid- Purchase the Set – Save 25 % 1950s television series that mixed exciting detectivecowboy thrills with historic Volume One......#RV2000A Volume Two......#RV2001A characters. B&W, 6 hours. Volume Three...#RV2002A Buy all Three and Save 25%..........#RV2007B $ 21.95 Rage at Dawn In this 1955 adventure, Randolph Scott stars as a federal agent who infiltrates the infamous Reno Brothers outlaw gang in post-Civil War southern Indiana by staging a string of phony train robberies to gain acceptance. But the situation takes an unexpected turn when he falls for the sister (Mala Powers) of the brothers and learns to like their leader (Forrest Tucker). 1 hr. 27 min.......#RV2019A Horror Express Starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas, this 1972 sci-fi horror film follows the early 20 th century Trans- Siberian Railway journey of a British anthropologist returning home with the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature that he believes to be the missing link. But when the creature escapes from its crate on the train, a trail of victims is left in its path. Can the unnatural monster be stopped? 1 hr. 30 min...................................................#RV2062AA The Hurricane Express In this thrilling, 12-chapter serial from 1932, John Wayne stars as a Ford Tri-Motor pilot who goes after a mystery villain – "The Wrecker" – responsible for a crash that killed Wayne's father on the vaunted Hurricane Express, the world's fastest train. Incredible action scenes abound, including charging trains, high-flying aerial scenes, speeding automobiles and a motorcycle chase that Wayne did himself! B&W, 3 hrs. 46 min......................#R87250A Streamline Express This 1935 comedy stars Evelyn Venable, Victor Jory, Esther Ralston, and Lee Moran as a colorful group of passengers aboard The Streamline Express, a high-speed train en route from New York to California. Antics, romance and intrigue collide as these travelers – including a Broadway director, the leading lady he’s in love with, her stuffy fiancé and a diamond thief – make the cross-country trek together. B&W, 1 hr. 10 min......................#RV5602A Was: $ 21.95 Midnight Limited In this 1940 thriller, an elusive criminal is at work aboard the night train from New York to Montreal, leaving his victims bound, gagged and penniless. After the phantom kills his best agent, an ace railroad detective goes undercover – posing as a rich Special Purchase! Save Over 50 % Special Purchase! Save Over 50 % traveler – to bring the killer to justice. B&W, 1 hour.......................................#RV2060AA Reg: $ 21.95 Terror by Night Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) – hired to guard the precious “Star of Rhodesia” diamond – find themselves amidst murder and thievery on a speeding train from London to Edinburgh. Suspicious characters and intrigue meet them within each coach and at every turn of this 1946 suspense-thriller. B&W, 1 hour.................................................#RV2006AA Some Like It Hot Collector’s Edition Hailed by the American Film Institute as the funniest American movie of all time, this 1959 Billy Wilder classic stars Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as 1929 Chicago musicians who, after witnessing a mob hit, dress in drag and hightail it to Florida on a passenger train as the newest members of an all-girl band starring bombshell vocalist Marilyn Monroe. This 2-DVD Collector’s Edition includes a “making of” featurette, postcards, a collectors booklet, and more. Widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, 2 hrs. 2 min.......................#RV2013A Reg: $ 24.95 Petticoat Junction Beginning in 1963, Petticoat Junction brought the small town of Hooterville, the Shady Rest Hotel and lazy Uncle Joe into American homes for seven laughfilled years. This collection of seven “lost episodes” from the first two seasons includes Spur Line to Shady Rest, in which the C&FW Railroad home office sends an efficiency expert to investigate the Hooterville Cannonball, the local train that, made up of a steam locomotive and a single combination baggage and passenger car, operates more like a taxi service. B&W, 3 hours...........................#RV2034A Special Purchase! Save 33 % Runaway Train In this Oscar-nominated performance, Jon Voight and Eric Roberts escape a prison in Alaska and climb aboard a train headed south. But the plot thickens when the train engineer suffers a heart attack, trapping a rail yard worker and her stowaways on the train with no engineer, no brakes, and no time. Widescreen, Dolby Digital, Rated R. 1 hr. 52 min....................#RV6983AA Was: $ 14.95 Switchback “For gripping down-to-the-wire excitement, you still can’t beat grappling opponents on a train speeding over a gorge with a tunnel around the bend.” – The New York Times. In this 1997 thriller, which is filled with fantastic mountain railroading scenes, Dennis Quaid stars as an FBI agent hot on the trail of an elusive serial killer who makes the chase a personal game when he kidnaps the agent’s young son. Co-stars Danny Glover and R. Lee Ermey. Widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, Rated R. 2 hours....................................#RV9429A Train Quest The Ride of Your Life When a 15-year-old boy and his dream date visit the model train shop where he works to see the owner’s latest creation (an elaborate train set and layout), Special Purchase! Save 60 % Special Purchase! Save 33 % the two are zapped down in size and find themselves trapped on the train. Are they doomed to ride the miniature rails forever? 1 hr. 20 min......................#RV5905A Was: $ 14.95 52 www.Histori .HistoricRail.com Fax: F 651-635-0700
MOVIES ADVENTURE The Great Train Robbery This humorous film stars Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland as two 1850sera British thieves who – with the help of Lesley-Anne Down – plot to steal £25,000 in gold being transported by train to pay British troops. It's a colorful, wily adventure at every twist in the track! Widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, Rated PG. 1 hr. 51 min.....................................#RV6988B $ 14.95 The Great Locomotive Chase This Disney classic relives the true Civil War story of the famous Andrews Raiders, a team of Union spies who snatched a train from Confederate troops. James Andrews (Fess Parker) leads his raiders on a high stakes race while Confederate train conductor William Fuller (Jeffrey Hunter) roars through a bevy of Southern stations hot on the heels of his hijacked locomotive, “The General.” 1 hr. 27 min.....................................#RV8626A $ 25.95 Dodge City Featuring train scenes shot on the Sierra Railroad in Jamestown, California, this 1939 Technicolor adventure stars Errol Flynn as a trail boss who, working for a man who builds a city at the western tip of the railroad just after the Civil War, is asked to become sheriff of the lawless town. This film, which inspired the Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles, opens with a dramatic race between a stagecoach and a train. 1 hr. 44 min.....................................#RV3248E $ 19.95 Jesse James Loosely based on the life of the notorious outlaw, this 1939 Technicolor thriller stars Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda as Jesse and Frank James, who leave behind their lives as peaceful Missouri farmers to conduct daring train robberies in retaliation for their mother’s death at the hands of a vile railroad official. Extras include news of the day, a theatrical trailer, and more. Rated PG. 1 hr. 46 min.........#RV3249E $ 14.95 Canadian Pacific This 1949 adventure – filmed in Cinecolor on location in the Canadian Rockies – stars Randolph Scott as a surveyor who must contend with saboteurs and Indians as he builds the Canadian Pacific Railway through the Rockies in the late 1880s. Extras include a Betty Boop cartoon; The Three Stooges in Yes, We Have No Bonanza; an Andrews Sisters song; and a 1950s travelogue produced by the Canadian Pacific about its new streamlined train, The Canadian. Color and B&W, 2 hrs. 30 min.........#RV7443C $ 17.95 Papa’s Delicate Condition This 1963 comedy stars Jackie Gleason as a boisterous and harddrinking railroad supervisor in turn-ofthe-century Texas who becomes overly generous and impulsive after he imbibes. When his antics lead him to buy a bankrupt circus for his young daughter (who only wanted a pony), his family leaves him. Can he get his wife and daughters back? This film won a Best Song Academy Award for Call Me Irresponsible. 1 hr. 38 min.....................................#RV3250D $ 14.95 Duck, You Sucker! Starring James Coburn and Rod Steiger, this humorous, 1971 film – which, as the last “spaghetti western” directed by Sergio Leone, is also known as A Fistful of Dynamite – follows the exploits of a fugitive Irish explosives expert who teams up with a down-to-earth peasant during the Mexican Revolution in 1913. Includes station scenes shot on the Almeria Railway in Spain and a fantastic, head-on train collision done with miniatures! Rated PG. 2 hrs. 37 min..................#RV3251E $ 14.95 The Professionals In this 1966 western thriller, which stars Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Burt Lancaster, and Lee Marvin (and a 1907- built Baldwin 2-8-0 running on Kaiser Steel’s Eagle Mountain Railroad in California), a railroad tycoon hires four tough gunslingers to rescue his kidnapped wife from one of Pancho Villa’s most desperate revolutionaries. This Special Edition DVD includes three featurettes and a theatrical trailer. Widescreen, Rated PG-13. 1 hr. 57 min..............#RV3252E $ 14.95 Boxcar Bertha Based on a true story, this riveting gangster tale – director Martin Scorsese’s second full-length feature film – chronicles the Depression-era misadventures of a young woman (Barbara Hershey), her union leader boyfriend (David Carradine), and their renegade cohorts who rob trains to exact revenge on the management of a railroad in the deep south. Widescreen, Dolby, Rated R. 1 hr. 28 min........#RV4003AA $ 14.95 Emperor of the North With an all-star cast that includes Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine in the starring roles, this Depression-era tale of a brutal conductor and the hobo who will risk his very life to ride the conductor's freight train is one of the greatest railroad films ever made. Widescreen, Dolby stereo, Rated PG. 2 hours...............#RV6996E $ 14.95 The Ghost Train Comedian Arthur Askey stars in this suspenseful, 1941 British film about a group of mismatched rail travelers stranded overnight in a lonely country station during a fierce storm. When a signalman tells the group the local legend of a phantom train carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck (and whose late-night appearance brings death to anyone foolish enough to look at it), the tension builds until the train becomes a real and frightening proposition. B&W, 1 hr. 22 min.....#RV2061AA $ 12.95 Bad Day at Black Rock When a mysterious stranger (Spencer Tracy) steps off a Southern Pacific passenger train in Black Rock and starts asking questions about a local man who has gone missing, it doesn’t take him long to learn that the townsfolk have something to hide. This suspenseful, 1954 film – which opens with a train of seven Daylight passenger cars racing behind F-units – co-stars Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin and Walter Brennan. Widescreen, 1 hr. 22 min................#RV3253E $ 19.95 Union Station This 1950 suspense-thriller stars William Holden as a railroad detective who must rescue a blind heiress kidnapped by a ruthless gang riding a train to Union Station. Includes footage of Los Angeles Union Station, the Third Ave El in New York City, and Pacific Electric Railway cars. Extras include a Betty Boop cartoon; Fox Movietone News; and a W.C. Fields short, The Fatal Glass of Beer. B&W, 1 hr. 20 min.....................................#RV7442C $ 17.95 North by Northwest “One of Alfred Hitchcock’s most durable entertainments.” – USA Today. This 1959 suspensethriller stars Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, a Manhattan advertising executive who, mistaken for a spy, is accused of murder. But when an ensuing cross-country chase takes Grant on the 20 th Century Limited, he meets a mysterious woman (Eva Marie Saint) willing to help him. This 50 th Anniversary Edition collection includes the documentary, Destination Hitchcock: Behind the Making of North by Northwest. Widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, 2 hrs. 16 min....................................#RV3254D $ 24.95 Blu-ray – Includes additional documentaries about Grant and Hitchcock..............#RV3255D $ 34.95 Festival Express “A delicious pop time capsule full of small moments and grand rock ’n roll gestures.” – Los Angeles Times. In the summer of 1970, a rock festival – starring Janis Joplin, The Band, the Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, The Flying Burrito Brothers and Ian and Sylvia – traveled across Canada by luxury train, stopping in Toronto, Calgary and Winnipeg for concerts. This 2-DVD collection, which documents the train journey and concerts, includes new interviews with participants. Dolby Digital 5.1, Rated R. 1 hr. 29 min....#RV3259E $ 19.95 The French Connection “On the short list of movies with the greatest chase scenes of all time.” – Roger Ebert. In this action-packed thriller, which won five Academy Awards in 1971 (including best picture, best director and best actor), New York City detectives “Popeye” Doyle Winner of 5 Oscars! (Gene Hackman) and Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) attempt to break a French narcotics smuggling ring. The famous subway chase was filmed over five weeks on New York’s elevated West End Line. Widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, Rated R. 1 hr. 44 min......................................#RV3260E $ 14.95 Blu-ray............................................#RV3261E $ 34.95 Darjeeling Limited In this 2007 comedy, three American brothers (Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman) who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train trip across the vibrant and sensual landscape of India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other. But when their “spiritual quest” veers rapidly off-course, a new, unplanned journey begins. Co-stars Anjelica Huston, Natalie Portman and Bill Murray. Widescreen, Dolby Digital, Rated R. 1 hr. 31 min.....................................#RV3049E $ 14.95 Order Toll Free: F 800-261 61- 5922 53
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