Film-Noir | Western Pacific Agent (1950) Kent Taylor, Sheila Ryan | Movie, Subtitles 

Yep I remember as a kid everything was black and white..Better times I remember first see everything in color once I became six years old .

@@nicholasfredro6217 Nic, Nic, Nic man! If all of this is true, I feel sure that you ought to put your affairs in order and see a vet, _right quick._ 🤓

That's what I like about Film Noir.

Yeah, with the old movies you don't have to do any mental gymnastics to enjoy them like you have to with today's movies with their complex scripts. Like with a Quentin Tarantino movie, if you stop paying attention for one second you're lost.

Actually, he meant "come and get me aluminum" or "come and get gold".

uh huh, ok. let me watch the movie and see if I have any idea who the heck he is.

Nope! Have no idea who he is. I fell asleep thru a big chunk of movie in middle. Didn't go back and watch it. Ending answered it all.

John Garfield was blackballed by the Senator Joe McCarthy "communist" witch hunts in the late 40s to around 1955 .

I have yet to discern if this story is made to represent the time just five years after WWII. This hobo character either made it home safe from a stint in the armed srvice or had been 4F'd even though he walks with a decent gait (flatfootedness seems not to be an issue). So the story starts with questions for me that only can be satisfied if I return to the movie to see if the issue I picked up on here is addressed or not. It's kind of ironic though that just as I was wondering about how a serviceman returning back from the second world war could be without any common sense and went on to be less than an upstanding civilian (whatecer that is, I can't say I'm qualified to judge) but this is a story that seems to be almost prophetic for the actor to portray a dejected soul, lost without a country, without familial support and as I return or not to this movie I'll get or not, the rest of the story, per Paul Harvey. Edit p.s. No finger prints on the shiv/knife, so that suggests no service record. Though I can see where records took time to piece together back in the year as herein depicted. Edit p.s. So Frank is supposed to be about 23 or 24 years old this would mean he was only 17 or 19 at the end of the war, though he sure looks more like a man in his late 20's or early thirties. That sits with the actor portraying Frank's father as the father appears to be in his fifties, which in the era depicted that would make an only child (guessing here) about 30 years old and the mother has not been mentioned thus far. Where did Frank's mother go?

@@aspenrebel Now you tell me, I'll have to go through 45 minutes to get my query answered. Well I'm into nostalgia in movies but the fifties is past my area of interest generally speaking. I may return to see the entire movie but I'm not good at staying to watch if the acting, direction and or production is 3rd rate. I guess that makes me a cinema-snob.

Keep electing Democrats & U'll see travelling by rail/train increase AND U'll see SAFER railways, too, with sufficient safety regulations as well. Orange AID removed many during his 4 atrocious years as President. Thus, resulting, in the way too many derailments we are seeing today (early 2023).

I was just in Spain and enjoyed traveling on the 180 mph fast trains! The drink-snack car was a joy!

Amtrak anyone?😂

@@truthadvocacy Due to new infrastructure bill passed, Amtrak is FINALLY receiving long overdue upgrades across the board.

@@MichaelGunner123 yay

Really liked the film serial of Boston Blackie. First time to hear there was a TV series, too. Thx for info.

@@MichaelGunner123 Indeed there was a very early TV series, which was one of the first program of ZIV, the very successful independent television production company that also brought us Highway Patrol and Lock-Up. It really has a bare-bones look, but that almost become a trademark of ZIV - but not as 'cardboard' in appearance as Space Patrol.

Surprised to see Robert Lowery w such a small part as well; Was listed 5th in the opening credits.

Just can't see Pat Buttram with that beautiful Sheila Ryan 😮 he sure didn't have any sex appeal kinda of a whiny Imogena Coco in drag just twice the size😂

Sid Melton he was Alf Monroe on the Green Acres (he and his sister were carpenters)

She'd be an avid listener of true-crime podcasts today.

Yes, he was quite funny!!

He was Alf Monroe on Green Acres

I was on the California Zephyr as a 9 year old San Francisco to Chicago in 1965. The dome cars were the greatest. Wonder if they were the same ones used in this great movie? I kinda doubt it....but maybe....?

GREAT Garfield Fan ..Was that he last..(They Made Me A Fugitive)?Man disgusting what the McCarthy Era OF House UnAmerican Committee did to John G and many others ..He passed away in Manhattan NYC...AT 39 YEARS OLD...BROKE HID HEART THOSE WITCH HUNTING Bureaucrats ..A freaking shame ...

Good

Nice. Maybe the next movie is reassuring.

"Bindle stiff " or just a BUM.

The last I noticed, that movie is available on the Internet. Just type in the title and hit Enter.

Still running in Canada the same cars the Canadian from Toronto to Vancouver .

You never had to work on those old diesels.

I heartily concur !

My sentiments exactly !

Its just a movie

Spoiler 😡😡

Nothing changes sadly.

@@SimonFurber O Yes, it changes. It gets worse.

@@big566bunny watch it then :P

That character was really in outer space, but he was really funny.

Reminds me of Rick Moranis in Little Shop of Horrors

U r so absolutely right

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From the title, I was expecting the story to revolve around a Station Agent, not a Special Agent(ie RR dick) ...

The Western Pacific steam engines burned oil, not coal.

ever hear if reloading? Hollywood hasn't..I've never seen a flic where someone used a speedloader & reloaded all 6 with one motion. Nor moon clips for 45 acp revolvers. At least they don't fire 10 rounds without reloading a revolver like in 1 of John Wayne's otters! Or in Hiwaii Five-O. My wife & I have a term for these 'wunderkind revolvers' They're McGarrett guns.. Guess actors are to dumb to reload a revolver except 1 at a time rarely.

@danielhernandez810 Thanks!

They just held the world rifle shooting Championships a few weeks ago. 3 events: Americans won Gold, Silver, and Gold in the team. South Africans won Bronze, Gold, and silver in the team British shooters won the other medals. No Canadians even placed.

Was wwondering who else might have caught that(37:15).

Who jumps off a moving train, PERIOD.

The train pictured is the 'California Zephyr', which ran between Chicago, Illinois and Oakland, California.

thats one hella long bridge....everyone else has to sail or fly that journey

@@richierich2048 Still does.

Nobody cares.

Fred Neecher : I don’t either. I just like finding film flubs because I normally never notice.

​@@Boogaboioringale i suspect Kerry that you were may be watching movie but mentally doing grocery. Nice catch anyway. Which box do you want ?

Indublitably ! And he guest starred on countless TV series in the 60s & 70s.

Sid melton

What is a Grear upload? Just curious. Never heard of before.