Great Locomotive Chase - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The pursuit of Andrews' Raiders was featured in the Buster Keaton silent film comedy The General
  • The Walt Disney dramatic film, The Great Locomotive Chase (1956), starring Fess Parker as Andrews, also was based on these exploits.

Read more about this topic:  Great Locomotive Chase

Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:

    Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    The popular colleges of the United States are turning out more educated people with less originality and fewer geniuses than any other country.
    Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)

    There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that the physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.
    Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)