The power of trains and the terror of one getting out of control, as both something real and a metaphor for modern life, were subjects of great fascination for writers of the Victorian era. Dickens himself survived a major rail disaster and went on to write the horrific ghost story The Signal-Man; Zola's La Bête humaine is set in the railway world and ends with a runaway train taking its passengers to their deaths. The cinema picked up this preoccupation, and Tony Scott's Unstoppable, a white-knuckle thriller, is in a tradition that includes Bernard Vorhaus's British B-movie classic The Last Journey (1935) in which Godfrey Tearle goes berserk driving an express locomotive in the West Country, and the Hollywood Runaway Train, scripted by Akira Kurosawa and shown in competition at Cannes in 1986.
Scott's picture is set in rust belt Pennsylvania and is a tribute to blue-collar Americans. It stars...
Scott's picture is set in rust belt Pennsylvania and is a tribute to blue-collar Americans. It stars...
- 11/28/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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