FUNICULAR RAILWAY IN MOVIE

[earlytalkiebuffRob]

Near the start of CRY OF THE HUNTED [1953] convict Vittoria Gassman escapes from cop William Conrad, jumping on a funicular railway going from one street level to another. Is this the same as that which features in Jame's Whale's THE IMPATIENT MAIDEN, twenty-one years earlier?

[Lamar]

The same. List of some other films that used it- https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?loca ... tloc_loc_2.

[earlytalkiebuffRob]

Thank you for that. Had not caught where the film was set, so wasn't sure what city to look under. At least it shows I'm not completely gaga. Yet.

[silentfilm]

[FrankFay]

Also used in the Bobby Vernon 1 reeler ALL JAZZED UP. Bobby's girlfriend is crazy about the railway- she leaves a note in their room"Join me in Angel's Flight" - he thinks she's killed herself & he goes out & tries to get himself killed.

[missdupont]

Court Flight was another funicular railway in downtown Los Angeles. The Echo Mountain railway took people up to the old resort hotel above Pasadena, it's featured in at least 1 D. W. Griffith short.

[earlytalkiebuffRob]

Watched Joseph Losey's M ['51] last night, which features said railway in the opening shot...