Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Dan Markoff Wrote:
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. . . Not all motion picture people
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> > live in fantasy land.
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> Right on, Dan -
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> When it comes to trains, that is. Most,
> certainly — but not all.
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> My own favorite example of this is N de M #268's
> scene-stealing role in the 'Mublety-Peg to the
> Death' sequence in
'The Magnificent
> Seven'. Unlike Steve McQueen, whose
> constant fidgeting in front of the camera finally
> elicited an angry
"knock it off" comment
> from co-star Yul Brynner, #268 just sits there,
> quietly simmering in the background, slowly
> building pressure in sync with protagonists James
> Coburn and George Kennedy.
>
> -
Roosso
Russ that's an interesting comment on 268. I don't remember the scene you are talking about, but I did see the movie. I probably saw it and new it was N de M NG,
but until now it didn't hit me. This was our engine in the summer of 1963 as we rode all day on the line from Pueblo to Mexico City. What an experience that was. I was 12, and my brother(8) and I were the youngest of the group. It was a rail trip for 2 weeks organized by John Vickers of Texas. We went by train from New Laredo all the way to Merida, and then to Progresso and so forth. Anyway we had 268 all day. I have some blurred box camera shots around to prove it(there are 2 piles, one blurred and one not blurred). Years later I realized one of the guys was J.D. Conrad, but we knew him as Randy on the trip. Just recently he helped me out on some Mexico Film footage shot in San Lazaro. That will be available this fall. It has Mexico, ET&WNC, SP 9, and D&RGW material. Anyway thanks for jogging my memory of 268!
Greg