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For the term related to political campaigning, see whistle stop train tour.


In United States railway history, a whistle stop is a station which a train stops at only on request, as when there are passengers or freight to be taken on or discharged. Ordinarily, a flag or other visual indicator would be placed outside the station by the station master if the station had traffic. If a stop was requested by a passenger on the train, a whistle would be sounded by train personnel to alert the locomotive engineer to the need to stop.

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Whistle Stop
Directed byLéonide Moguy
Produced bySeymour Nebenzal
Written byMaritta M. Wolff (novel)
Philip Yordan
StarringGeorge Raft
Ava Gardner
Music byDimitri Tiomkin
CinematographyRussell Metty
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date(s)January 25, 1946 U.S. release
Running time85 min.
LanguageEnglish
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Whistle Stop is a 1946 movie starring George Raft and Ava Gardner. The film was shot in black and white and in the film noir style. The movie was directed by Léonide Moguy and based on a novel by Maritta M. Wolff. The screenplay is by Philip Yordan and the musical score is by Dimitri Tiomkin.

Featured cast

Actor Role
George RaftKenny Veech
Ava GardnerMary
Victor McLaglenGitlo
Tom ConwayLew Lentz
Jorja CurtrightFran
Jane NighJosie Veech
Florence BatesMolly Veech
Charles DrakeErnie

References

  • Franz Marksteiner: You don't know Mary. WHISTLE STOP von Leonide Moguy (1946). In: Christian Cargnelli, Michael Omasta (eds.): Schatten. Exil. Europäische Emigranten im Film noir. PVS, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-901196-26-9
For the original railroad term see whistle stop.
A whistlestop or whistlestop tour is a style of political campaigning where the politician makes a series of brief appearances or speeches at a number of small towns over a short period of time.
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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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Rail transport is the transport of passengers and goods by means of wheeled vehicles specially designed to run along railways or railroads. Rail transport is part of the logistics chain, which facilitates the international trading and economic growth in most countries.
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Station can refer to:
  • Broadcast station
  • Radio station
  • Television station
  • Station (network)

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The station master was the person in charge of railway stations, in the United Kingdom and some other countries, before the modern age.[1] He would manage the other station employees and would have responsibility for safety and the efficient running of the station.
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This article gives UK usage. For US usage see Railroad engineer


A Locomotive engineer is a person who designs, builds or repairs locomotives.

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  • Chief Mechanical Engineer
  • Mechanical engineering

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Way station may be:
  • Way Station (novel) a 1963 science fiction novel by Clifford D. Simak
  • The Way Station - chapter two of 'The Dark Tower I – The Gunslinger' by Stephen King.

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A weigh station is a checkpoint along a highway to inspect vehicular weights. Usually, trucks and commercial vehicles are subject to the inspection.

Overview

Weigh stations are equipped with scales, some of which permit the trucks to continue moving while being weighed,
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Léonide Moguy

Born 14 July 1899
St. Petersburg
Died 21 April 1976
Paris,  France

Léonide Moguy ( 14 July 1899 - 21 April 1976) was a Russian born French film director, screenwriter and film editor .
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George Raft

Judy Canova and George Raft pictured in 1979
(photograph by Alan Light)
Birth name George Ranft
Born September 26 1895(1895--)
New York City, New York
Died
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Ava Gardner

Birth name Ava Lavinia Gardner
Born November 24 1922(1922--)
Brogden, North Carolina, USA
Died January 25 1990 (aged 69)
Westminster, London, England, UK
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Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (Russian: Дмитрий Зиновьевич Тёмкин, Dmitrij Zinov'evič Tëmkin
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Russell Metty (born 1906, died 1978) was an American cinematographer, who worked on many films during the forties, fifties and sixties.

Filmography

  • Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
  • Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  • Music in Manhattan (1944)

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George Raft

Judy Canova and George Raft pictured in 1979
(photograph by Alan Light)
Birth name George Ranft
Born September 26 1895(1895--)
New York City, New York
Died
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Ava Gardner

Birth name Ava Lavinia Gardner
Born November 24 1922(1922--)
Brogden, North Carolina, USA
Died January 25 1990 (aged 69)
Westminster, London, England, UK
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Black-and-white is a broad adjectival term used to describe a number of monochrome forms of visual arts. Most forms of visual technology start out in black and white, then slowly evolve into color as technology progresses.
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Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s.
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Maritta M. Wolff
Born: November 25 1918(1918--)
Grass Lake, Michigan, USA
Died: July 01 2002 (aged 85)
Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation: Novelist, homemaker
Nationality: American
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Philip Yordan (April 1, 1914 - March 24, 2003) was a popular and talented screenwriter of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He was also known as a highly regarded script doctor, called in to rewrite and repair flawed screenplays.
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Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (Russian: Дмитрий Зиновьевич Тёмкин, Dmitrij Zinov'evič Tëmkin
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George Raft

Judy Canova and George Raft pictured in 1979
(photograph by Alan Light)
Birth name George Ranft
Born September 26 1895(1895--)
New York City, New York
Died
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Ava Gardner

Birth name Ava Lavinia Gardner
Born November 24 1922(1922--)
Brogden, North Carolina, USA
Died January 25 1990 (aged 69)
Westminster, London, England, UK
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Victor McLaglen

Born November 10 1886(1886--)
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
Died November 7 1959 (aged 74)
Newport Beach, California, U.S.
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Tom Conway

from the trailer for
Grand Central Murder (1942)
Birth name Thomas Sanders
Born September 15, 1904
St. Petersburg, Russia
Died April 22, 1967
Culver City, Los Angeles

Tom Conway
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Bonnie Lenora "Jane" Nigh (born February 25 1925–5 October 1993) was an American actress. She was discovered in 1944 by Arthur Wenzler while working in a defense plant. She later signed a contract with Fox Studios.
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Charles Drake

Birth name Charles Rupert
Born September 2 1917(1917--)
New York City, New York, USA
Died September 10 1994 (aged 78)
East Lyme, Connecticut, USA


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