What's his secret?

[Stranger_On_A_Train]

@sturmhauke

I taught him everything he knows.

Well, you and John Frankenheimer.

@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.

Great, now I sound like a commerical for an on-line university. :o

Stranger

[Defensive_Indifference]

@Stranger On A Train

Well, you and John Frankenheimer.

I love the movie The Train. I just finished watching it for about the 50th time a week ago.

[Stranger_On_A_Train]

@Bayard

I love the movie The Train. I just finished watching it for about the 50th time a week ago.

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

[Defensive_Indifference]

@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

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.