Joe (on the left) and Tex (on the right) have just met Bonnie in a Barranca street, a fictional somewhere in South America circa 1939. They're on their way to a swinging night spot.
Tex: Oh, oh. Look out!
Bonnie: What was that?
Tex: 5th Avenue Bus Line.
Over the weekend I was rewatching Routine Pleasures and noticed that the director, Jean-Pierre Gorin, seemed to hint in a few places that aspects of his documentary were loosely similar to the Howard Hawks movie, Only Angels Have Wings. I hadn't seen the movie, so I corrected that deficiency in my education, and was very glad I did. It's a great film and I highly recommend it. As an extra bonus, there's an interesting little railcar scene early in the opening. This movie doesn't disappoint.
These sorts of conversions weren’t uncommon, but I wonder if sometimes scenes in film and television had more influence on model makers and manufacturers than the prototypes did .
ReplyDeleteThat makes me wonder if it had some influence on John Allen's layout. In the movie Barranca is a port city, and in the opening scenes it's clear there is an extensive network of track in the streets and docks for loading and unloading ships. A snippet would make for an interesting little layout. In 1/32 say it might be possible to find a credible Jean Arthur figure :-)
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