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Disaster On The Coastliner
''Disaster on the Coastliner'' is a 1979 American made-for-television action drama film. It was directed by Richard C. Sarafian and starred Lloyd Bridges, Raymond Burr, Robert Fuller, Pat Hingle, E. G. Marshall, Yvette Mimieux, William Shatner, and Paul L. Smith. It originally aired on '' The ABC Sunday Night Movie'' on October 28, 1979. Plot A disgruntled railroad employee attempts to cause a collision between two passenger trains. Cast * Lloyd Bridges - Al Mitchell * Raymond Burr - Estes Hill * Robert Fuller - Matt Leigh * Pat Hingle - John Marsh * E. G. Marshall - Roy Snyder * Yvette Mimieux - Paula Harvey * William Shatner - Stuart Peters * Paul L. Smith - Jim Waterman / Victor Prescott * Lane Smith - John Carlson * Sandy McPeak - Hennessey * Michael Pataki - Tate * Peter Jason - LeBoux * John Brady - Locomotive Engineer Production The film was shot on a railway line in Connecticut. At his own suggestion William Shatner did his own stunts, including stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EMD F40PH
The EMD F40PH is a four-axle B-B diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in several variants from 1975 to 1992. Intended for use on Amtrak's short-haul passenger routes, it became the backbone of Amtrak's diesel fleet after the failure of the EMD SDP40F. The F40PH also found widespread use on commuter railroads in the United States and with VIA Rail in Canada. Additional F40PH variants were manufactured by Morrison-Knudsen and MotivePower between 1988 and 1998, mostly rebuilt from older locomotives. Amtrak retired its fleet of F40PHs in the early-2000s in favor of the GE Genesis, but the locomotive remains the mainstay of VIA Rail's long-distance trains; a depiction of the locomotive hauling '' The Canadian'' is featured on the reverse of the Frontier series Canadian $10 bill. The F40PHs are still a common sight on many other commuter railroads throughout the United States. In addition, Amtrak has kept 22 of its F40PHs in use as non- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moonlight Productions
Frank von Zerneck (born November 4, 1940) is an American television producer. Career Zerneck's career began as a theater producer in Los Angeles, but moved to television in 1975 in a collaboration with Robert Greenwald through Moonlight Productions, which resulted in the Emmy nominated docudrama ''21 Hours at Munich''. They briefly partnered with former ABC employee Stu Samuels in the mid to late 1980s. In 1987 Zerneck and fellow producer Robert M. Sertner created von Zerneck/Sertner Films, a long-term venture which has resulted in nearly a hundred television films. Of the company's most notable productions are four Native American films produced for Turner Network Television between 1993 and 1996, which included the Emmy winning ''Geronimo'', ''Crazy Horse'', and Golden Globe The Golden Globe Awards are awards presented for excellence in both international film and television. It is an annual award ceremony held since 1944 to honor artists and professionals and their wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Sessums
Jack may refer to: Places * Jack, Alabama, US, an unincorporated community * Jack, Missouri, US, an unincorporated community * Jack County, Texas, a county in Texas People and fictional characters * Jack (given name), a male given name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Jack (surname), including a list of people with the surname * Jack (Tekken), multiple fictional characters in the fighting game series ''Tekken'' * Jack the Ripper, an unidentified British serial killer active in 1888 * Wolfman Jack (1938–1995), a stage name of American disk jockey Robert Weston Smith * New Jack, a stage name of Jerome Young (1963–2021), an American professional wrestler * Spring-heeled Jack, a creature in Victorian-era English folklore * Jack (hero), an archetypal Cornish and English hero and stock character Animals and plants Fish *Carangidae generally, including: **Almaco jack **Amberjack ** Bar jack ** Black jack (fish) ** Crevalle jack **Giant treval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dunne Books
Thomas Dunne Books was an imprint of St. Martin's Press, which is a division of Macmillan Publishers. From 1986 until April 2020, it published popular trade fiction and nonfiction. History The imprint signed David Irving, a scholar, for a Joseph Goebbels biography in 1996 but had to drop the book when it was found out that Irving was a Holocaust denier for having links to Institute for Historical Review, "the literary center of the United States Holocaust-denial movement." In October 1999, St. Martin's Press recalled a Dunne book, ''Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President'', and destroyed them after various incidents about the author, J. H. Hatfield, surfaced. The incidents were that he had served prison time for a car-bombing attempt on his former boss's life and that he included an anonymous accusation about Bush. A St. Martin's executive editor resigned in protest over the publication. In November, Dunne editors stopped attending St. Martin edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of The Spiders
''Kingdom of the Spiders'' is a 1977 American science fiction horror film directed by John "Bud" Cardos and produced by Igo Kantor and Jeffrey M. Sneller. The screenplay is credited to Richard Robinson and Alan Caillou, from an original story by Sneller and Stephen Lodge. Part of the eco-horror subgenre, ''Kingdom of the Spiders'' centers on a rural town in Camp Verde, Arizona which lies in the migration path of a horde of tarantulas turned aggressive due to pesticides having depleted their normal food sources. The film was released by Dimension Pictures (not to be confused with the distributor Dimension Films). It stars William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode, Lieux Dressler, and Altovise Davis. Plot Dr. Robert "Rack" Hansen, a veterinarian in rural Verde Valley, Arizona, receives an urgent call. Farmer Walter Colby's prize calf is sick, and dies shortly afterward. Hansen sends samples of the calf's blood to a university lab in Flagstaff. Diane Ashley, an ara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
F40PH
The EMD F40PH is a four-axle B-B diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in several variants from 1975 to 1992. Intended for use on Amtrak's short-haul passenger routes, it became the backbone of Amtrak's diesel fleet after the failure of the EMD SDP40F. The F40PH also found widespread use on commuter railroads in the United States and with VIA Rail in Canada. Additional F40PH variants were manufactured by Morrison-Knudsen and MotivePower between 1988 and 1998, mostly rebuilt from older locomotives. Amtrak retired its fleet of F40PHs in the early-2000s in favor of the GE Genesis, but the locomotive remains the mainstay of VIA Rail's long-distance trains; a depiction of the locomotive hauling ''The Canadian'' is featured on the reverse of the Frontier series Canadian $10 bill. The F40PHs are still a common sight on many other commuter railroads throughout the United States. In addition, Amtrak has kept 22 of its F40PHs in use as non-powered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Jason
Peter Edward Ostling (July 22, 1944 – February 20, 2025), better known as Peter Jason, was an American character actor. He often played military personnel, law enforcement agents, and authority figures in both films and television series. Early life Born in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, Jason grew up on the Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach. Jason was a self-described "surf bum" until the age of eighteen, when he acted on stage for the first time and became "an actor bum." He had the lead role, playing Sheridan Whiteside in his high school's adaptation of '' The Man Who Came to Dinner''. From there, he "never had a job, never worked for a living, just played for the rest of islife." He continued acting at Orange Coast College, citing his favorite role there as Harold Hill in ''The Music Man''. After hitchhiking to Pittsburgh for a stint at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Jason returned to California and helped to start the South Coast Repertory Theatre in his h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Pataki
Michael Pataki (January 16, 1938 – April 15, 2010) was an American actor of stage, film and television.Obituary ''Los Angeles Times'', May 5, 2010; p. AA7. Early life Pataki was born in Youngstown, Ohio, to Hungarian parents, the youngest of three children. He had an elder brother and an elder sister. He attended the University of Southern California with a double major in political science and drama. His career was launched at a summer stock festival in Edinburgh in 1966 as Jerry in '' The Zoo Story''. Television career Pataki had a co-starring role on the 1974–75 groundbreaking ABC-TV series '' Get Christie Love!'' playing Officer Pete Gallagher, Christie Love's bumbling but well-meaning sidekick with the dream to one day be a technical advisor on a TV cop show. Despite being the first detective TV series with an African American female lead, the characters of Christie and Pete rarely discussed race and just focused on watching out for each other and getting out of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandy McPeak
Sandy McPeak (February 21, 1936 – December 31, 1997) was an American actor best known for such films and television series as '' Winnetka Road'', ''L.A. Law'', ''Centennial'', ''Ode to Billy Joe'', '' Patton'', '' The Osterman Weekend'', ''Kelly's Heroes'' and ''Blue Thunder''. Biography Sandy McPeak was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania on 21 February 1936. He began his acting career in 1963 when he appeared in ''Palm Springs Weekend'', and best known for such films and television series as '' Winnetka Road'', ''L.A. Law'', ''Centennial'', ''Ode to Billy Joe'', '' Patton'', '' The Osterman Weekend'', ''Kelly's Heroes'' and ''Blue Thunder ''Blue Thunder'' is a 1983 American action thriller film directed by John Badham. The Blue Thunder helicopter itself did exist as two copies of modified French Aérospatiale Gazelles. A spin-off television series, also called '' Blue Thun ...''. McPeak died of a heart attack in Nevada City, California on 31 December 1997. Filmograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lane Smith
Walter Lane Smith III (April 29, 1936 – June 13, 2005) was an American actor. His well-known roles included newspaper editor Perry White in the ABC series '' Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'', collaborator entrepreneur Nathan Bates in the 1984 NBC television series '' V'', Mayor Bates in the film '' Red Dawn'', Coach Jack Reilly in '' The Mighty Ducks'', district attorney Jim Trotter III in ''My Cousin Vinny'', U.S. Congressman Dick Dodge in '' The Distinguished Gentleman'', Grantland Rice in ''The Legend of Bagger Vance'', and U.S. President Richard Nixon in '' The Final Days'', for which he received a Golden Globe award nomination. Early life Lane Smith was born in 1936 in Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated from the Leelanau School, a boarding school in Glen Arbor, Michigan, and spent one year boarding at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, before studying at the Actors Studio in the late 1950s and early 1960s along with Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino; he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passenger Train
A passenger train is a train used to transport people along a railroad line, as opposed to a freight train that carries goods. These trains may consist of unpowered passenger railroad cars (also known as coaches or carriages) push-pull train, hauled by one or more locomotives, or may be self-propelled; self propelled passenger trains are known as multiple units or railcars. Passenger trains stop at Train station, stations or depots, where passengers may board and disembark. In most cases, passenger trains operate on a fixed Public transport timetable, schedule and have priority over freight trains. Car design and the general safety of passenger trains have dramatically evolved over time, making travel by rail remarkably safe. Some passenger trains, both long-distance and short-distance, use Bilevel car, bi-level (double-decker) cars to carry more passengers per train. Sleeper trains include sleeping cars with beds. Passenger trains hauled by locomotives are more expensive to op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The ABC Sunday Night Movie
''The ABC Sunday Night Movie'' is a television program that aired on Sunday nights, first for a brief time in 1962 under the title ''Hollywood Special'' (although ''Time'' magazine lists this version as ''The Sunday Night Movie'') to supposedly replace an open time slot for the TV show ''Bus Stop'', which was cancelled after March 1962. It then began airing regularly under its more commonly known title from late 1964 to 1998, on ABC. Since 2004, it has aired sporadically as a special program, now titled the ''ABC Sunday Movie of the Week'', though as of the 2011-12 television season, the only films in this timeslot were aired under the ''Hallmark Hall of Fame'' banner, which transferred to ABC in that season. However, in 2014, ''The Hallmark Hall of Fame'' moved exclusively to cable on the Hallmark Channel. As a result of this, the ''Sunday Night Movie'' is now exclusively relegated to two special holiday movies, ''The Sound of Music'' every holiday season and ''The Ten Commandme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
