June 8, 1956
The Great Locomotive Chase is a 1956 American adventure Western film produced by Walt Disney Productions, based on the Great Locomotive Chase that occurred in 1862 during the American Civil War. Filmed in CinemaScope and in color, the film stars Fess Parker as James J. Andrews, the leader of a group of Union soldiers from various Ohio regiments who volunteered to go behind Confederate lines in civilian clothes, steal a Confederate train north of Atlanta, and drive it back to Union lines in Tennessee, tearing up railroad tracks and destroying bridges and telegraph lines along the way.
Storyline
During the Civil War, Union spy Andrews and his men volunteer to steal a Confederate train and drive it to Union territory while destroying the Confederate railway system along the way.
This is based on a true story. During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of Union soldiers into the South so that they could destroy the railway system. However, things don't go as planned when the conductor of the train that they stole is on to them and is doing everything he can to stop them.
Sound Effects Used
- Disney - Train Whistle (Used as The William R. Smith's whistle.)
- Disney - Train Whistle 4 (Debut; used as The General's whistle)
- Valentino Factory Whistles (3 Blasts)/Sound Ideas, WHISTLE, STEAM - STEAM TRAIN WHISTLE: LONG/Sound Ideas, WHISTLE, STEAM - STEAM TRAIN WHISTLE: MEDIUM/Sound Ideas, WHISTLE, STEAM - STEAM TRAIN WHISTLE: SHORT/Sound Ideas, WHISTLE, STEAM - STEAM TRAIN WHISTLE: VERY SHORT (Used as The Texas' whistle)