I hopped freights in the early 80's, and my pals and I would playfully quote this picture; nice to see it's remembered. (We had great fun, btw, LOTS of interesting characters) Before you jump on board, be aware that some weird shit started going down on the rails by the nineties, so be careful before inspiration takes you to someplace you hadn't counted on. (Sam Peckinpah was briefly involved in the development of this picture; I can only imagine how great it would have been had he directed it)
@TheDeJureTour Yes, it does. His directorial skill never wavered, even with some dubious screenplays. He was still at pretty peak powers at the time of this picture, and I think if he had directed it, it would be some kind of action classic. (As it is, it's not bad, but Robert Aldrich peaked with THE DIRTY DOZEN, and his slide was painful to watch.) Peckinpah was also briefly involved with DELIVERANCE, but it's hard to see how he could have improved on THAT. (Interesting to think about, tho)
What a shame I´d never saw this movie in the theater.......this must have been an unforgetable event. Look at this great pictures....wow....this is awsome.
I wish nowadays movies could have such charisma like movies back in those days.
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Certamente a melhor introdução de filmes de toda a história. No Brasil foi exibido na televisão na década de 1990 e é muito raro achar em DVD. Parabéns pela lembrança. Abraços. Great video.
I just ran into Ernest Borgnine in Costco today. Did the ol' double take. Caught up to him and thanked him for all the wonderful movie and television work he's done. I specifically mentioned this film as one of the best movies ever. He thought that he had done a poor job in it, I scoffed at that notion. Very nice person. Very humble. Looks great and very fit. Hope he gets "rediscovered" like so many others have.
@speak4you Connoisseurs of 60s/70s tough-guy cinema already revere Ernie Borgnine. Yeah, he did schlock work, but when he was in a military film or adventure movie, you knew you were in for some testosterone. The Wild Bunch. The Dirty Dozen. Emperor of the North. Ernie was one tough hombre. And with Lee Marvin in the same film? That's bad-ass redux!
This is now a historical movie, railroad-wise, since the Oregon, Pacific & Eastern RR on which it was filmed, was shut down and scrapped back in 1994, as one person who replied noted. Shame...a very scenic line, but now you will need to hike or bike along a rail trail on the old roadbed to experience it. No more steam powered excursion trains on this former rail route.
I always loved this movie!!! Do you have the monolog that A#1 is yelling to the kid, at the end of the film?? "Kid, you got no class"......... Great speech...........
Whats wrong with the song here, it skips? Its perfect on my old movie tape! "Ok kids, history lesson time"! (1) Its a Movie!! So forget braking action and any other bullshit that's not 100% Real Railroading! (2) Way back when, many trains just made the siding! The only ones recorded in history are the ones that did not make the siding, killing lots of people! (3) Many railroad Bulls (cops) pushed Hobos off moving trains in those days! Times have changed! (4) Great Movie, just enjoy it !!
OK all you self proclaimed movie critics regarding the authenticity of the actions of the train crew in this movie what's your beef with the helicopter film crew? Put down the J.D! and enjoy the flick.
This film has the usual assortment of Hollywood railroad inaccuracies. Most abrasive, to me, is calling the conductor "Shack". This term is railroad slang for "brakeman." It would properly be the nickname for Charles Tyner's character. Conductors were most commonly known as "Brains" (because they are in charge of the train) or "Captain" (same reason).
Conductors seldom chased after hobos. They ordered the brakemen to deal with them. So in that sense it WOULD be the Shack after A No. 1.
Shack could be a carryover nickname from when the character was a brakeman. He is referred to as Captain in the movie at least once.
There are some much bigger discrepancies, such as the train trying to run to the junction in under 4 minutes and at some point the train breaking, whereupon the automatics don't set up.
Possibly. But do you think someone as arrogant, self-important and just plain mean would let himself be called by a lesser title after he had been promoted?
@jppicur some other innacuracies include shack telling the engineer how to run his train and taking the throttle himself. Thats a big time no no. lol. Also shack highballed in the yard and disobeyed the yard master's orders to not highball. Another big no no, besideds that he threatend the yardmaster as well. i dont get it why everyone feared shack, after all most of the men in the yard had higher authority than ahack.
Yes, the railroading is laughable. It's not a film I've watched a lot, or for a while. But there is no doubt the best thing is just to sit back and enjoy the steam locomotives and let the Hollywood cartoon characters look after themselves.
Mind you, Lee Marvin's performance was good. Ernest Borgnine, who won an Oscar for an incredibly sensitive performance in "Marty", was obviously ordered to be over the top in every scene. Only thing missing was fake foam at the mouth.
@jppicur well considering it was during the great depression, a conductor with a lot of pride and one keen on keeping his jopb woould do anything to keep it. This includes going after hobos who rode on his train. Only problem is this shack woould have lost his job halfway into the movie because he mistreated those who had authority over him. Also high ballin in the yard was a big time no no.
Emperor of the North Pole, to give it its original title, was filmed in 1973 at Cottage Grove OR on the Oregon, Pacific & Eastern. The OP&E owned at least five steam locomotives that I know of. Most were display engines but #19 operated tourist trains. It's ex-Caddo River Lumber #4, later sold to Mexico. It returned in 1953 to the U.S. to the McCloud River where it became #19. It was sold the same year to Yreka Western. OP&E bought it in May 1971. YW now has it back when OP&E quit.
For train buffs the movie " Breakheart Pass" from the early '70's was very good. Starring Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson and lots of others I can't remember.
Yes but Emporer of THe North is better because it has a steam locomoitve in it. Not many movies have steam locomotives in them these days. There ought to be more movies starring steamers.
One of Borgnine's best...but why did you abbreviate the Marty Robbins tune? I have this movie on DVD and to hear the editing in the title tune is a bit disappointing.
I hopped freights in the early 80's, and my pals and I would playfully quote this picture; nice to see it's remembered. (We had great fun, btw, LOTS of interesting characters) Before you jump on board, be aware that some weird shit started going down on the rails by the nineties, so be careful before inspiration takes you to someplace you hadn't counted on. (Sam Peckinpah was briefly involved in the development of this picture; I can only imagine how great it would have been had he directed it)
MrDoubtfulguest 3 weeks ago
@MrDoubtfulguest Ahhhh, Sam Peckinpah.......now that invokes greatness.
TheDeJureTour 3 days ago
@TheDeJureTour Yes, it does. His directorial skill never wavered, even with some dubious screenplays. He was still at pretty peak powers at the time of this picture, and I think if he had directed it, it would be some kind of action classic. (As it is, it's not bad, but Robert Aldrich peaked with THE DIRTY DOZEN, and his slide was painful to watch.) Peckinpah was also briefly involved with DELIVERANCE, but it's hard to see how he could have improved on THAT. (Interesting to think about, tho)
MrDoubtfulguest 3 days ago
What app do I need to post films?tell me
thorshammer1348 3 weeks ago
goofy. I will now jump in front of a train because I listened to this rediculousness..
Good movie though.
noodlam 3 months ago
we cant have any fun on youtube anymore
cant watch good movies on here this is my fave.
someone should try to put this up
cavalierfan1995 5 months ago
we cant have any fun on youtube anymore
cant watch good movies on here this is my fave.
someone should try to put this up
cavalierfan1995 5 months ago
Most badass conductor EVER
8010cookie 6 months ago
My dad was in this movie!! he had only one line though.....
1pandamanypanda 6 months ago
I guess i lucky enough in my life to be a fireman,on steam locomotives .
and work up and down the frazer canyon in british columbia.
cprail1000 7 months ago
What a shame I´d never saw this movie in the theater.......this must have been an unforgetable event. Look at this great pictures....wow....this is awsome.
I wish nowadays movies could have such charisma like movies back in those days.
ganimed1976 7 months ago
Ride a freight, and get a chance talk to an old-timer about riding the rails, or at least a freight....
Superdave1ize 8 months ago
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RoadWarriors360 8 months ago
Nice little song, right before the head bashing starts.
monkeyboy4746 8 months ago
Certamente a melhor introdução de filmes de toda a história. No Brasil foi exibido na televisão na década de 1990 e é muito raro achar em DVD. Parabéns pela lembrança. Abraços. Great video.
JJEFTrens 9 months ago
what is the name of the song
BUICK925 10 months ago
I just ran into Ernest Borgnine in Costco today. Did the ol' double take. Caught up to him and thanked him for all the wonderful movie and television work he's done. I specifically mentioned this film as one of the best movies ever. He thought that he had done a poor job in it, I scoffed at that notion. Very nice person. Very humble. Looks great and very fit. Hope he gets "rediscovered" like so many others have.
speak4you 10 months ago 3
@speak4you Connoisseurs of 60s/70s tough-guy cinema already revere Ernie Borgnine. Yeah, he did schlock work, but when he was in a military film or adventure movie, you knew you were in for some testosterone. The Wild Bunch. The Dirty Dozen. Emperor of the North. Ernie was one tough hombre. And with Lee Marvin in the same film? That's bad-ass redux!
stravinskyrocks 10 months ago
A#1, Lee Marvin/Ernest Borgnine just brilliant. LOVE THE FILM! it's just a great movie.
fazermanbill 11 months ago
This is now a historical movie, railroad-wise, since the Oregon, Pacific & Eastern RR on which it was filmed, was shut down and scrapped back in 1994, as one person who replied noted. Shame...a very scenic line, but now you will need to hike or bike along a rail trail on the old roadbed to experience it. No more steam powered excursion trains on this former rail route.
shortliner68 1 year ago
@shortliner68 Truly sad about OP&E. At least #19 lives on, though.
Gunny761 1 year ago
2:01 He smells them!!! God, he`s pure evil!!!
srkicacak 1 year ago
Man, I wished the sound didn´t skip.
runawayfreak 1 year ago
A #1 in more ways than one. Great movie.
You'll be looking for a stick and a bandanna to bundle your gear and hop a westbound freight by the end of this.
HammerQQ 1 year ago
This movie is great cinema......I never forget the epic fight scene with Lee Marvin vs Ernest Borgnine.
ganimed1976 1 year ago
I always loved this movie!!! Do you have the monolog that A#1 is yelling to the kid, at the end of the film?? "Kid, you got no class"......... Great speech...........
pcd94553 1 year ago
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I do not watched this movie at least 20 years...Awesome comments here guys i learned something i still love this movie!
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sbd403 1 year ago
Whats wrong with the song here, it skips? Its perfect on my old movie tape! "Ok kids, history lesson time"! (1) Its a Movie!! So forget braking action and any other bullshit that's not 100% Real Railroading! (2) Way back when, many trains just made the siding! The only ones recorded in history are the ones that did not make the siding, killing lots of people! (3) Many railroad Bulls (cops) pushed Hobos off moving trains in those days! Times have changed! (4) Great Movie, just enjoy it !!
48alfaone 1 year ago
OK all you self proclaimed movie critics regarding the authenticity of the actions of the train crew in this movie what's your beef with the helicopter film crew? Put down the J.D! and enjoy the flick.
Stretchmancando 2 years ago
awesome comments here guys i learned something i still love this movie
mrmatt9552 2 years ago
This film has the usual assortment of Hollywood railroad inaccuracies. Most abrasive, to me, is calling the conductor "Shack". This term is railroad slang for "brakeman." It would properly be the nickname for Charles Tyner's character. Conductors were most commonly known as "Brains" (because they are in charge of the train) or "Captain" (same reason).
Conductors seldom chased after hobos. They ordered the brakemen to deal with them. So in that sense it WOULD be the Shack after A No. 1.
jppicur 2 years ago
Shack could be a carryover nickname from when the character was a brakeman. He is referred to as Captain in the movie at least once.
There are some much bigger discrepancies, such as the train trying to run to the junction in under 4 minutes and at some point the train breaking, whereupon the automatics don't set up.
JaiahHazelnutBrown 2 years ago
Possibly. But do you think someone as arrogant, self-important and just plain mean would let himself be called by a lesser title after he had been promoted?
jppicur 2 years ago
Touche. Who knows maybe though...
JaiahHazelnutBrown 2 years ago
Note: The HOBOS called him "Shack" probably as an insult since as noted above he was a Conductor doing a Shack's job.
badflamenco 2 years ago
@jppicur some other innacuracies include shack telling the engineer how to run his train and taking the throttle himself. Thats a big time no no. lol. Also shack highballed in the yard and disobeyed the yard master's orders to not highball. Another big no no, besideds that he threatend the yardmaster as well. i dont get it why everyone feared shack, after all most of the men in the yard had higher authority than ahack.
Kleman09 2 years ago
Yes, the railroading is laughable. It's not a film I've watched a lot, or for a while. But there is no doubt the best thing is just to sit back and enjoy the steam locomotives and let the Hollywood cartoon characters look after themselves.
Mind you, Lee Marvin's performance was good. Ernest Borgnine, who won an Oscar for an incredibly sensitive performance in "Marty", was obviously ordered to be over the top in every scene. Only thing missing was fake foam at the mouth.
jppicur 2 years ago
@jppicur well considering it was during the great depression, a conductor with a lot of pride and one keen on keeping his jopb woould do anything to keep it. This includes going after hobos who rode on his train. Only problem is this shack woould have lost his job halfway into the movie because he mistreated those who had authority over him. Also high ballin in the yard was a big time no no.
Kleman09 2 years ago
What movie doesn't?
cochranexyz 2 years ago
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jppicur 2 years ago
Emperor of the North Pole, to give it its original title, was filmed in 1973 at Cottage Grove OR on the Oregon, Pacific & Eastern. The OP&E owned at least five steam locomotives that I know of. Most were display engines but #19 operated tourist trains. It's ex-Caddo River Lumber #4, later sold to Mexico. It returned in 1953 to the U.S. to the McCloud River where it became #19. It was sold the same year to Yreka Western. OP&E bought it in May 1971. YW now has it back when OP&E quit.
jppicur 2 years ago
any one know what engine that is
wfprr 2 years ago
this is mc cloud 19 or now yereaka 19
bnsf261 2 years ago
what livery is it? what road?
courtneydavis433 2 years ago
thats a really nice steamer
wfprr 2 years ago
cool!
Kleman09 2 years ago
Great movie by Robert Altman. Great cast of Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine as
A no 1 and Shack. Beautiful photography of america.
bobgrantsbus 2 years ago
It's in fact a Robert Aldrich movie.
wozzek22 2 years ago 2
I think this movie and "Bite The Bullet" were two of the best train movies made in the last forty years or so.
Yeah, I know, they're about the only two train movies made in the last forty years. (there was one made in the late eighties called "runaway train"
turnoutjim 3 years ago
For train buffs the movie " Breakheart Pass" from the early '70's was very good. Starring Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson and lots of others I can't remember.
corticalmass 2 years ago
there was a another good one ...a 1973 made for tv movie called Runaway starring Ben Johnson....check it out if you can find it
bobbya16 2 years ago
Yes but Emporer of THe North is better because it has a steam locomoitve in it. Not many movies have steam locomotives in them these days. There ought to be more movies starring steamers.
Kleman09 2 years ago
my great-grandpa is 2:28 on right. the short man one is my great-grandpa :) no kidding. this blood same of me.
tzbcollins 3 years ago
One of Borgnine's best...but why did you abbreviate the Marty Robbins tune? I have this movie on DVD and to hear the editing in the title tune is a bit disappointing.
Titan752 3 years ago
My best movie ever.
14070808 4 years ago 20
I love this movie, but the song is sappy. Marty Robbins was never one of my favorite singers..
Hendo56 4 years ago
the song does skip, still a good scene. i loved this movie ever since i was a kid.
Drifterwithanak 4 years ago
This movie is awesome.
seankolker 4 years ago 17
@seankolker That Ax versus chain fight is the best weapons fight scene ever, in my opinion. It's not slick or stylized or pretty; just...RAW!
overkillll 1 year ago
I watched this movie, dubbed in Irani, about 30 times back in '87
overkillll 4 years ago
@overkillll Are you sure that wasn't an acid flashback? Jesus, that sounds awful!
MrDoubtfulguest 2 days ago
Someone, upload the entire movie!
gyjg6564167 4 years ago 2
Beautiful railroad atmosphere !
jcdlfg 4 years ago
Why does this look sped up.
MrDaylight844 4 years ago
I love this song.
MrDaylight844 4 years ago
whats this song called
bansheerider118 4 years ago
A man and a train
Bru200676 4 years ago
marty robins greatest song
nevada66 4 years ago
A favorite movie of mine, but I'd enjoy the clip a lot better if the song didn't skip so much!
rhwoodya1 5 years ago