Man on the Train (TV-1953) DAVID NIVEN
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2023
- Four Star Playhouse Season 1 Episode 9
Stars: David Niven, Lowell Gilmore, Rhys Williams
Director: Robert Florey
A man encounters an old acquaintance on a train traveling with a large sum of money. He later learns that the man had disappeared four months earlier after embezzling the cash from the train company. - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
Just imagine telling a great story without people screaming at each other; no gun shots; and no car chases. I guess good writers do not need those fake action crutches.
💖 ~ 🎯 Sadly, Hollywood is overrun with bad writers, actors, directors, & producers ... & they DO need those fake action crutches & all the rest that they contaminate the silver screen with, which is why I stopped going to cinema movies a long time ago; along with China's BlueSuitz' involvement. Nothing compares to these cool black & whites.
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If you wish for peace, prepare for war. 💖
Yep. When dialogue mattered.
No phones, no drugs, polite language, well dressed, ...
Or gratuitous sex, vulgar language
Yes, suspenseful little plot. I appreciate these older films❤
For all the admirers of David Niven I would recommend "Separate Tables" (1958). In that film he gave his finest performance, for which he was deservedly awarded an Oscar. As the English used to say "he was a wonderful chap". RIP, David and thanks for the memories.
Separate Tables was wonderful.
@@BrianRPaterson That's right Brian. Even the musical theme ("Separate Tales") sung by the great Vic Damone is magnificent. I consider it one of the 10 finest films ever made.
Charming and handsome
Sad his wife died playing
Foolish games with lights
Off!
This was a really great episode. David Niven, not just a class actor but a real life war hero.
He was indeed a war hero, as millions of others were.
What do you mean a war hero?
@@scronx You could always google it, I suppose.
@justthink5854I have -- they're frivolous.
He was a wonderful raconteur, but sadly most of his anecdotes were fiction. Where is he mentioned anywhere as a War hero except in his own book and interviews. One episode he related was a scene from an old film with, if I remember rightly, featuring Tommy Trinder innever had very much at all to do with Trubshaw after the war, yet maintained he always managed to find him work. He tells two different tales of losing his virginity! I could go on
I think the world is a little emptier with out David Niven.
Good Night David.
Couldn't agree more.
I just have always loved David Niven. If I see a film and he is in it I watch it. Never disappointed.
His autobiographies are laugh til you cry and weep at the sadness. The Moons a Balloon and Bring on the Empty Horses. They read as smooth as his charm, wit and humour.
When 4 Star TV started, it was a brave step for the founders Niven, Powell, Lupino and Boyer. It was defying the power of the movie studios, who wanted to stop TV from getting traction.
Perfect English, decently dressed actors and actress, no profanity and yet, captivating.
I really wish there were more helpful ghosts like these ; a great many more mysteries would be solved in our world. David Niven had that unique look that projected a feeling of being helpful and helpless at the same time . Loved it.
Marty Hopkirk was the best.
Yes me too
Everything - absolutely everything - with David Niven is always worth watching.
Check out "A matter of life and death" aka "Stairway to Heaven." Superb movie... (made in the 1940s but you'd swear it was much more recent than that).
One of my top three films!
@@JehanineMelmoth Great minds think alike...
David Niven, great actor, and a lovely gentleman
David Niven, always a class act.
pretty awesome performance, great quality classic with David Niven.
Enjoyed seeing David Niven again, Alan Napier TV's "Alfred the Butler" from Batman (1966) was a bonus!
Alan Napier also appeared in some Alfred Hitchcock Presents tv episodes in the 1950's.
Thanks. I was trying to remember that face.
I was thinking Michael Rennie, but I knew that was wrong.
Alan Napier, of course.
Well that was an interesting diversion for a Sunday afternoon. David Niven, always the consummate British gentleman.
I really enjoyed that. David Niven so classy.
Really good. I've never seen it before in my 71 years. ❤
I thoroughly enjoyed seeing this TV film. They don't make like that anymore.
Thank you for screening this episode. Great to see David Niven in his prime - a wonderful actor of his time! He very much reminds me of my father, both of whom are much missed.
Very fortunate to have a father anything like David Niven, he was such a gentleman
@@myriaddsystems Indeed, he was a jolly decent chap.
David Niven. Class Act. At his very best 😅
I miss and adore old black and white movies.
Thankyou ❤❤❤
David Niven class actor, I enjoyed that movie!
A realgood filmed story. David Niven really controls the tone and mood. He knew how to speak in a way that kept matters light, yet dramatic.
Another very good David Niven performance in a 4 star playhouse is series 1 episode 13
The episode is called "No Identity".
Thank you for that information. I will do some research about the program. 😊
Always lovely to see David Niven! Many thanks.
I adored David Niven.
When television still contained style and class.
Well those were the days, David Niven a great actor, when there were decent movies. Really enjoyed.
Two of the Greats, David Niven and Alan Napier!
A good story ...You never know? Some people have the minds eye to pick up on certain energies?
Such a fun, quirky performance by Alan Napier!
David Niven. Thank you for this movie. Enjoyed it.
Niven top shelf .
I've listened to this story many times on audiobook channels, it was great to actually watch it on the screen.
Thank You, I enjoyed this very much ! I love the old times when blood and guts were not thrown all over the screen or filth, to tell the story, just Great actors and actresses!
I really enjoyed this video which I have never seen before with the great David Niven one of my favourite actors. Thanks for sharing this.
David Niven, what a treat. TY
Glad to find this by
chance. David Niven
was always good.
When this was new,
my older brother was
7, I was 5, and younger
brother was 1...😊
Coronation year of
our late lamented
Q.E. ll.🇬🇧.
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Wasn’t this absolutely DELIGHTFUL?!?!
An enjoyable little short with David Niven and Alan Napier now famous for playing Alfred from Batman but had many screen credits before this and also a few afterwards.
One of my favorite British actors.
I want more of that.
Love David Niven
Great episode. I was 1 year old in 1953...so I guess I missed the original airing! Lol...we didn't have TV until many years later.
Very simple way in which the movie is well made
ANOTHER GREAT ONE! THANKS PIZZA FLIX!!
Brought to you by the Singer Sewing Machine company. Sounds sweet. Sewing machine was a fantastic standard for woman sewing at home.
I still sew 🧵 on a Singer 306K. Scottish made, an absolute workhorse. It was built in September 1959, making it 64 years old in a few days. Puts modern machines to shame.
I loveed Hollywood in that era.
I noticed some of these. I look for things like this in movies and t.v. Not for negative feelings, just is further entertaining.
Tall, dapper, suave, controlled, great author......it was men like David Niven what really won the War!
That went from, a crime drama, to a fantasy thriller, in a heartbeat💓!! Wasn't expecting that, at ALL!! Always enjoyed David's personality, and acting. Never heard of this television program, before either. Thank you😁!!
Very intriguing story. Thank you for sharing. :)
🍕🍕Thank you , PF .🍕David Niven , a great talent .❤👍🍕🍕🍕
PizzaFlix, this was a fun one to slip in. Great acting. And the twist and the only plausible explanation was the ghost.
Thank you. For this..👍
Thank You PizzaFlix.🌹
Really Good.
God Bless.❤️🙌
Oh, this was good! I hope there’ll be more episodes. Thank you.
An unexpected gem - David Niven was so good. I miss him a lot.
David Niven always cut such an English gentlemanly figure! One mini-criticism: we in Britain don't call our railways "railroads" - they're railways. However, I enjoyed watching this.
A simple story from a much gentler age, though the class divides are far more noticeable after decades of social change.
Marvelous, thank you
When they don’t spend half of the time doing all the blood, sex and gore, they can really develop their characters.
I ❤him in Around The In 🌎80 Days.
@12:26 perhaps the funniest line in the flick: _Why, come to think of it, Grace, my secretary, has a grey beard._ 🤣
Back then most secretary's were male, Grace would of been his surname.
That fits perfectly into today's "gender fluid" society! 😆
Raikes, not Grace...
Great story! Thanks for providing this for us to watch!
I have several David niven movies wish I had this one
Niven's autobiography was one the most entertaining ones I've read.
Ahh , unbeleivers , what would we do without them .
Singer , a name not seen for years , but in the family home from treddle machine , 1st modle knee bar operated , rather than foot peddle , to two later models , all still going strong .
"The man on the tràin " , a geeat story , one woth retelling often - such a long time since compartment seating has been seen on English rail .
22:11 ☆ 💖 ~ Wowwwww ... was NOT expecting this!!! LUV being surprised like this. Figured him & his boss were gaslighting David Niven's character back in the office. Don't believe in ghosts - but this was a jolly good ride!!! TY🍕
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So good,thank you
Simply adored him.
One of the first actors as a kid I could remember
Brilliant ghost story
Very enjoyable, thank you.
the original short story which was used to make this adaptation was written by the noted novelist, Egyptologist, artist, singer and adventurous traveller AMELIA B EDWARDS ... who wrote many novels - some selling over a million copies! - and dozens of short stories including THE PHANTOM COACH and - THE 4.15 EXPRESS which was the source material for this story. Even IMDB has not given her any credit as being the writer of the original story. The full text of THE 4.15 EXPRESS can be found in the Gutenberg Project online library, in a volume called STORIES OF MYSTERY - I highly recommend Amelia's novel BARBARA'S STORY and her many other collections of short stories and 'mysterious tales' - -
Very good thanks
On a British train, he is not a conductor but the guard.
That was tremendous!
This is the year in which I was born 🎉
Me Also !
❤love this David is great
This was great. Short but sweet :)
Thank you for sharing!
Lo mejor que he visto hace tiempo.Gracias por subirlo!
Brilliant. Thank you 😊
Delightful ❤
Entertaing. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing! Subscribed😊🎬
Me too! 😊
Great entertainment movie
So good. Thank you! 😊👍
An intriguing episode. A bit of Twilight Zone in it. If this is typical of English TV of 1953. I’m all for it. A compelling story on a limited production budget. Shows you can’t substitute money for talent. Current English broadcasting is pathetic in comparison.
It's not English tv at all. It's an American production aimed at an American audience, with a typical Hollywood slant on how they thought the Brits of that time looked, talked and lived. There are many glaring errors, not the least of which is that the British railway system was nationalised in 1948 and became British Railways -- thus there were no private main rail lines or extensions therefrom at that time.
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You'd be fun to sit with in a pub/tavern and
drink/chat all afternoon.
@@robertwalker5521 Yeah, ok, so I was a bit ticked off when I wrote that because of all the obvious mistakes from an ex-Brit's point of view. If you're going to set a tv play in Britain, at least make some effort to make it *feel* like Britain. I would have thought that David Niven of all people would have had a word with the producer and/or writer about it.
Thank you! ❤
Good Movie ❤
Great story. It was a ghost
great story, nice twist at the end!!
What a great short tale !
The director to Niven: “Bug your eyes. That’s right, and again please … and again.”
But what a fun little story!
Marvellous 😁❤
That was great thank you!!
Great story. Thanks!
Based upon Amelia B Edwards' Four Fifteen Express, one of a number of excellent ghost stories she created.
Merci
DN was also so very debonair.
*There must be very few unsolved crimes in England with a police force like Scotland Yard.*
Great television without political agenda or bogus narratives.