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> Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 10:25 AM -0700
> From: Mary Krimmel <mary@krimmel.net>
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Subject: Re: THe American Road Novel: Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac and
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> Thanks for Leland's
> good review of "The Terminal" in New York Times, and for your comment and
> recommendation of "In Transit".
>
> I think of William Inge's 1955 play "Bus Stop". There must be movies or
> novels set primarily in Pennsylvania Station or other railroad terminals?
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From: Earl Sampson <esamson3@comcast.net>
There is an RR terminal movie by the noted Soviet/Russian director Eldar
Ryazanov, Vokzal dlya dvoikh (A Railroad Station for Two, 1982). I confess I
didn't remember much about the film - I must have seen it in 1983 - so I
lifted the following sketchy plot summary from IMDb:
"Platon Gromov, a pianist, is travelling by train to a distant town of
Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty
minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress, after
he refuses to pay her for the disgusting food he doesn't even touch and
misses his train due to police investigation of the incident. His passport
is then accidentally taken away from him by Andrei, Vera's fiance, and his
money is stolen as he waits for the next train to Griboedov. Vera learns
that Platon is about to get sentenced and sent to prison in the Far East
for a car accident he isn't guilty for. During the few days that Platon has
to spend in Zastupinsk he and Vera develop feelings for each other..."
Unfortunately that summary leaves things hanging, but if I remember
correctly, that's how the movie ends: with no resolution to the
relationship.
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> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 10:25 AM -0700
> From: Mary Krimmel <mary@krimmel.net>
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Subject: Re: THe American Road Novel: Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac and
> ...
>
> Thanks for Leland's
> good review of "The Terminal" in New York Times, and for your comment and
> recommendation of "In Transit".
>
> I think of William Inge's 1955 play "Bus Stop". There must be movies or
> novels set primarily in Pennsylvania Station or other railroad terminals?
>----------------------------------------
From: Earl Sampson <esamson3@comcast.net>
There is an RR terminal movie by the noted Soviet/Russian director Eldar
Ryazanov, Vokzal dlya dvoikh (A Railroad Station for Two, 1982). I confess I
didn't remember much about the film - I must have seen it in 1983 - so I
lifted the following sketchy plot summary from IMDb:
"Platon Gromov, a pianist, is travelling by train to a distant town of
Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty
minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress, after
he refuses to pay her for the disgusting food he doesn't even touch and
misses his train due to police investigation of the incident. His passport
is then accidentally taken away from him by Andrei, Vera's fiance, and his
money is stolen as he waits for the next train to Griboedov. Vera learns
that Platon is about to get sentenced and sent to prison in the Far East
for a car accident he isn't guilty for. During the few days that Platon has
to spend in Zastupinsk he and Vera develop feelings for each other..."
Unfortunately that summary leaves things hanging, but if I remember
correctly, that's how the movie ends: with no resolution to the
relationship.
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D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L