# ID a movie

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-movie/413263>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 26, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-movie/413263 "2007-07-26T18:31:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-movie/413263/1 "2007-07-26T18:31:05Z")

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Ok I remember virtually nothing about this movie aside from one scene. The movie revolves around a train I believe and may or may not be related to the Trans-Siberian Railway. The scene which I believe takes place at the end of the movie has a guy riding on top of the train while it is going quite fast and it is snowing very hard all over the guy and the train and the surrounding area, a really heavy snowstorm if I recall. This movie would not have been made in the last 10 years, I’m thinking it came out in the 80’s maybe.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-movie/413263/2 "2007-07-26T18:36:54Z")

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Not the Trans-Siberean Railway, but it sounds like the end of Runaway Train, with Jon Voight, Eric Roberts and Rebecca DeMornay.

[imdb link](http://imdb.com/title/tt0089941/)

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**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-movie/413263/3 "2007-07-26T18:37:00Z")

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[Runaway Train](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089941) with Jon Voigt?

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**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-movie/413263/4 "2007-07-26T18:38:54Z")

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Sounds like it could be 1985’s [Runaway Train](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089941/). Though I don’t remember it actually snowing at the end; just cold as frozen Hell (set in Alaska).

Is there any chance it could be 1973’s [Emperor of the North Pole](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070030/)?

Both movies had: trains; a cocky, troubled kid partnered with a tough older man; and a nemesis who, although on the side of the law, was one mean SOB.

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**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-movie/413263/5 "2007-07-26T18:53:50Z")

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I’m pretty sure it had to be Runaway Train. Hmm sounds pretty good, might be worth watching again.