C J Snarzell
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I've actually started to watch a film a night during the UK epidemic and I watched the Brit flick classic Get Carter last night.
I've always been fascinated by the opening scenes where Jack Carter makes his journey from London to Newcastle. One of the biggest movie twists of all time is the fact that Carter's fate is sealed the moment he steps on to the train & he is sharing the carriage with his eventually killer (clearly dispatched by the Fletcher brothers).
The film was shot on location in late 1970 and the footage on the train is interesting - the layout of the carriages, the restaurant area where Michael Caine appears to be eating a bowl of soup and of course the outside scenery - the power stations & the approach into Newcastle where there seem to hundreds of old style signals littering the skyline.
I'm also curious to see that the film depicts the train journey to take all day when a standard LNER service in 2020 from King's Cross to Newcastle would take under 3 hours.
Very much a film of it's time but the railway footage is quite interesting - I've often wondered if those sequences where in fact shot along the East Coast Line or may somewhere closer to the actually film studios in London.
CJ
I've always been fascinated by the opening scenes where Jack Carter makes his journey from London to Newcastle. One of the biggest movie twists of all time is the fact that Carter's fate is sealed the moment he steps on to the train & he is sharing the carriage with his eventually killer (clearly dispatched by the Fletcher brothers).
The film was shot on location in late 1970 and the footage on the train is interesting - the layout of the carriages, the restaurant area where Michael Caine appears to be eating a bowl of soup and of course the outside scenery - the power stations & the approach into Newcastle where there seem to hundreds of old style signals littering the skyline.
I'm also curious to see that the film depicts the train journey to take all day when a standard LNER service in 2020 from King's Cross to Newcastle would take under 3 hours.
Very much a film of it's time but the railway footage is quite interesting - I've often wondered if those sequences where in fact shot along the East Coast Line or may somewhere closer to the actually film studios in London.
CJ