Murder, Mayhem, and Mystery on Trains!

Murder, Mayhem, and Mystery on Trains!

Winter (14+ hours) | This course is completed

10 Hilton Field Road Hanover, NH 03755 United States

Dining Room

New Course

1/17/2020-2/14/2020

9:30 AM-12:30 PM EDT on Fri

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$80.00

Perhaps you went somewhere recently by train, or you remember traveling by train as a child or even as a college student. In any case, we will view a series of films that use trains as a key setting for stories of mystery and murder. Certainly such films will help you forget your last crowded airplane flight as they indulge your nostalgia about roomy, comfortable train travel as well as carrying you along to enjoy the thrills of mysteries and thrillers, especially those of Alfred Hitchcock.

Possible films include:
The Lady Vanishes* (May Whitty) 1938
Night Train to Munich (British Agents and Nazis) 1940
Murder on the Orient Express (Bacall, Bergman, Connery) 1974
That Kind of Woman (Tab Hunter and Sophia Lauren) 1959
North By Northwest* (Eva Marie Saint) 1959
Film Clip: Closely Watched Trains 1966

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Watson, Don

While a student at the Universite de Poitiers, Don Watson discovered the French fascination with American Westerns. He also learned to appreciate the New Wave Cinema. He retired from teaching French and Latin at Hanover High School while he still had a sense of humor. In 1991, he started the Sister City Exchange program between Hanover and Joigny, France. He has an MA from the University of Chicago and an MLS from SUNY-Albany.