Supertrain: Express To Terror (episode 1) 5/10

[yaywhewclips242]

"Chinamen" -nice. Shades of "Born Yesterday".

[TheLastBrainLeft]

I think we are seeing something filmed right at the point disco jumped the shark.

[Modeltrainguy]

I HAVE forgotten about the music. Not bad hearing it again! :-)

[eimb1999]

@Modeltrainguy : Sure beats the hell out of the crap (rap and hip-hop) that they play today isn't it?

[parachuteclubbed]

7:39 screams, "O hai, I wanna be just like Giorgio Moroder but spent the whole production budget on the set."

[nickelindimer]

I'm just five parts into this movie... which I'm glad to have found... and I can't help but notice something: Cindy Chapel's hairdo seems to keep changing from scene-to-scene. I mean... I like her in the "do" that she had in her coach room, but in the club car it's different. Has anyone else noticed that?

[Keon2006]

Its "Chain Reaction" and now your host Bill Cullen

[2005dave]

One of those disco cues seen in this segment became the theme music to a game show called "Your Number's Up".

[Gnillob802]

"There were Indians and Chinamen!" How fun!

[TheDoctor394]

"and everything!"

[DerKosmonaut1972]

Is this Donna Sommer? Oh no? It's just a rip off from "I Feel Love" Around 7 or 8 minutes through Part 5, the music is at its best.

[DerKosmonaut1972]

There was clearly a difference between white disco from black disco. The main difference was that Black disco had much more soul and rythm. Looks like the composer for Supertrain was white. I could be wrong but I have a suspicion. I just hope this doesn't provoke some really racist tangent racist rant which has nothing to do with the film or the music of the film in question.

[Gnillob802]

Actually, Robert Cobert, who is white, is a composer who has written extensively for TV and film. He is best known for his Emmy-nominated work for The Winds of War (the longest film score ever written) and Dark Shadows. The disco music here was basically just a treatment of background music (elevator music). Pretty much on par with John Carl Parker who did the music from CHIPs.