1938
In Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes, one woman (Margaret Lockwood) grapples with the disappearance of an elderly traveling companion—as well as every other passenger’s memory of her existence.
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1964
The Burt Lancaster film The Train depicts a German colonel bent on smuggling stolen artwork out of France—and set the bar for high-stakes heist films playing out on the rails.
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1974
Murder on the Orient Express follows detective Hercule Poirot as he attempts to solve the mystery surrounding the on-board death of a businessman amid suspects played by the likes of Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery and Vanessa Redgrave.
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1985
In Runaway Train, two escaped convicts (Jon Voigt and Eric Roberts) board a train with no idea that its brakes are shot and it’s speeding toward a deadly collision.
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