NFT: The film 'Stand By Me'

A short-lived thread that I'll delete in the morning: Grey Pilgrim started a thread prior to last w/e on movies to watch. The reason I'm bringing 'Stand By Me' up here, now, is that I watched it last night before the start of the Islanders' game (I beg Greg's forgiveness!!) on Netflix while making ribs: it will be de-listed as of June 30, meaning Netflix' rights to show it expire then.

You all prolly know the film's plot, but it warmed up the nostalgia in me big time, easy to do. In 1986 River Phoenix looked like a 12-year old, Kiefer Sutherland looked like a 19-year old hood, John Cusack (brief cameo as Gordie LaChance's brother) looked 21, Richard Dreyfuss at beginning and end looked like, well, Richard Dreyfuss, and lesser, more fleeting lights play the other boys.

Based on a Stephen King novel 'The Body' and directed by Rob Reiner, it was easy for me to fall right back in with it. Terrific scenery shoots in Brownsville, OR and this description of the train trestle scene with the locomotive bearing down on the four boys from Wiki merits a read unto itself. June 30, it's gone.

Quote:

The scene where the boys outrace a steam train engine across an 80-foot tall trestle was filmed on the McCloud River Railroad, above Lake Britton Reservoir near McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park in California.[16] The scene took a full week to shoot, making use of four small adult female stunt doubles with closely cropped hair who were made up to look like the film's protagonists.[16] Plywood planks were laid across the ties to provide a safer surface on which the stunt doubles could run.[16] The film crew even brought a brand-new camera for use in the shot, only for it to jam between the rails on the first shot. The locomotive used for the scene, M.C.R.R. 25, is still in daily operation for excursion service on the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad.