# What's his secret? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 20, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-his-secret/419908 "2007-09-20T20:10:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-his-secret/419908/21 "2007-09-25T15:44:15Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhauke] I taught him everything he knows. [/QUOTE] Well, you and [John Frankenheimer.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001239/) [QUOTE=Jurph] As a _bona fide_ Rocket Scientist, I am always happy when **Stranger on a Train** posts in the GQ aerospace threads, because it means I get to learn something about rockets that I probably didn’t know. It’s like getting my Master’s in Aerospace Engineering… three minutes at a time. 😃 [/QUOTE] Great, now I sound like a commerical for an on-line university. :o Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-his-secret/419908/22 "2007-09-25T15:49:08Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] Well, you and [John Frankenheimer.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001239/) [/QUOTE] I love the movie _The Train_. I just finished watching it for about the 50th time a week ago. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-his-secret/419908/23 "2007-09-25T16:01:43Z")
[QUOTE=Bayard] I love the movie _The Train_. I just finished watching it for about the 50th time a week ago. [/QUOTE] His commentary track on the underrated _Ronin_ is basically a short course on how to script and film an intelligent action-thriller. And _The Manchurian Candidate_ (the original, not the misbegotten remake) is a brilliant and biting satire. I think my favorite, however, is _Seconds_, and James Wong Howe’s paranoiac cinematography just amplified the “Twilight Zone”-esque malevolence lurking below the surface. It’s a pity that Frankenheimer spent so many years inside a bottle and cranking out crap in the late 'Seventies through the 'Eighties. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-his-secret/419908/24 "2007-09-25T16:11:40Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] His commentary track on the underrated _Ronin_ is basically a short course on how to script and film an intelligent action-thriller. And _The Manchurian Candidate_ (the original, not the misbegotten remake) is a brilliant and biting satire. I think my favorite, however, is _Seconds_, and James Wong Howe’s paranoiac cinematography just amplified the “Twilight Zone”-esque malevolence lurking below the surface. It’s a pity that Frankenheimer spent so many years inside a bottle and cranking out crap in the late 'Seventies through the 'Eighties. Stranger [/QUOTE] I haven’t seen many of his. I did enjoy _The Manchurian Candidate_, but I last watched it several years ago. I also thought _The Train_ was an intelligent movie which raised interesting questions about the sometimes hazy motivations people have for fighting. My aging VHS copy includes the theatrical trailer, which is all about the “Action! Adventure! Edge of Your Seat!!” There is that in the movie, and the train crashes rock, but it’s not a dumb actioner. I’ll have to take a look at _Seconds_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-his-secret/419908.md?page=1)