I remember seeing a move some time back, many years ago, in which the same
story line was used on a film made here it the States. Don't remember the
name of it and it might have involved a diesel instead of the steam engine.
Ray Bedard
San Jose CA
>From: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
>To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [CBQ] OT - El Ultimo Tren
>Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:50:53 -0000
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>I'm always on the lookout for good railroad movies - or at least good
>movies in which
>railroads play some important part. It isn't just for the action footage or
>scenery (of course
>that never hurts!); I'm also interested in what these movies have to say
>about what
>railroads mean to people.
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>Anyway, I just found a pretty good one through Netflix. It's an indie film
>released in 2002
>- from Uruguay, of all places, called "El Ultimo Tren" (The Last Train).
>The premise is that a
>group from the local "Friends of Rail" society conspire to steal Uruguay's
>last operating
>steam locomotive in order to stop it from being sold out-of-the-country for
>a movie.
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>Needless to say, as they flee, running light toward the Brazilian border,
>they are pursued
>by the police and the engine's owner, providing both comic and dramatic
>episodes. But the
>true heart of the movie is the trio of old men who (along with an
>11-year-old boy)
>physically steal the engine. It is really their story, how their actions
>relate to who they are,
>or were, or wish they were, and especially to how they each face the
>realities of old age.
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>The scenes of the engine running through the Uruguayan countryside are
>nicely
>photographed, and the landscape has a quiet pastoral beauty. It could
>easily have been a
>branch line somewhere in the Midwest, were it not for the engine's
>obviously British
>appearance, and accent.
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>Not exactly an action/adventure pic like "Emperor of the North Pole," but a
>good story and
>character study.
>
>Jonathan
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