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"Oh, Mr. Porter"--Complete Film on YouTube
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Author:  J3a-614 [ Sun May 06, 2012 3:47 am ]
Post subject:  "Oh, Mr. Porter"--Complete Film on YouTube
The title says it all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvvESEVKcHA

Enjoy.
Author:  filmteknik [ Mon May 07, 2012 10:15 am ]
Post subject:  Re: "Oh, Mr. Porter"--Complete Film on YouTube
Amusing but no Titfield Thunderbolt, probably the most charming British rail-related movie ever.

Steve
Author:  J3a-614 [ Mon May 07, 2012 2:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: "Oh, Mr. Porter"--Complete Film on YouTube
That may be true, Steve, but where else are we to go, considering the weak offerings in the entertainment field for us?

Actually, I can imagine a newer, American variant of "Titfield" (which is a jewel, as you've noted). I picture it as a piece set in the 1950s, and that it would revolve about a narrow gauge road in Colorado that gets rediscovered as a tourist attraction (to paraphrase "Field of Dreams," "save it and they will come.") This of course parallels the real life of the Durango & Silverton and the Cumbres & Toltec, and could even be the Strasburg--but the 45 miles to Silverton or the 64 miles to Chama are more dramatic than the pleasant 4 1/2 miles to Paradise. I picture borrowing elements from the roads' experiences with snow, with some freight customers (I'm thinking in particular of a lumber company and its woodpile mentioned in Gilbert Lathrop's "Rio Grande Glory Days), and tossing in a Lucius Beebe clone as a reporter who is also a rail enthusiast from San Francisco; he helps get the word out about about this attraction, but not until having some adventures on the road and in some other places, too--I'm picturing him amusingly observing a barroom brawl, or even getting involved in one, and of course writing it up in that style that was so entertaining to many of us.

For the movie, I would also consider having him working in radio--early talk radio?--to have his words come out to our audience, which likely haven't read "Mixed Train Daily."

Here's a fun question--whom would you cast as "Luscious Lucius?"
Author:  Howard P. [ Mon May 07, 2012 3:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: "Oh, Mr. Porter"--Complete Film on YouTube
John Lithgow.

Howard P.
Author:  Dennis Storzek [ Mon May 07, 2012 5:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: "Oh, Mr. Porter"--Complete Film on YouTube
Hey, ALL RIGHT! You can even have them carry the wood mock-up of RGS 20 made for Ticket to Tomahawk down the museum stairs.


Ducking for cover...
Author:  J3a-614 [ Mon May 07, 2012 7:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: "Oh, Mr. Porter"--Complete Film on YouTube
Hey, Dennis, that wouldn't quit fit with what I had in mind, but how about one of the story elements being that one of the last jobs for this railroad will be as a movie location, and the replica gets used for what it was built, a large prop? I can picture the fun we have with fake diamond stacks and awful paint on a K-series 2-8-2 (film crew finds out the hard way they made the stack too tall to fit in tunnels or the engine house), maybe some fun with F-units (standard gauge connection at Antonito, where Cumbres & Toltec actually has a connection with Rio Grande Scenic) butting into the scene that's supposed to be in 1880; maybe some sort of fun with "hot chick" actresses who are among the stars; and other misadventures some here have probably had with movie crews who didn't know railroading at all.

Hmm, I wonder if we could get the 819 out to stand in for a Rio Grande 1700-class 4-8-4. . .

Whom would you cast as a version of Norma Jeane Mortensen Baker, a/k/a Marilyn Monroe?

Hmm, Marilyn Monroe in a movie, with Lucius Beebe as a technical consultant (something he did at least a little of for "Union Pacific") as well as a reporter--and a director not as respectful of railroad accuracy as Beebe (and the real railroaders) would like him to be--how much fun could we have with that?

What are our odds of selling this one to Hollywood?
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