From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   Are groupers familiar with the 1954 Fritz Lang(!) film "Human Desire," with   
   Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame, and a young Edgar Buchanan [Petticoat Junction]   
   as his sidekick and Broderick Crawford as her husband?   
      
   It's all rail! It opens with a montage at least five minutes long of Ford   
   driving a train through all sorts of industrial landscapes over presumably   
   familiar landmarks of visually impressive tracks and trestles. His locomotive   
   is oddly streamlined -- not Raymond Loewy streamlined, but looking a bit   
   like the front of a semi truck.   
      
   Almost as impressive, that is, as the opening montage of "Nothing Sacred"   
   (Carole Lombard), which must have been some of the first (1936?) color aerial   
   photography of Lower Manhattan, which must have featured heavily in the   
   advertising but which is never mentioned in "NYC in the movies" books. It   
   goes on rather longer than is needed for the story! [On TV it's usually   
   savagely abbreviated. There was a DVD.]   
      
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