fav movie with boiler / radiators?

Timco

This eve we watched "The Prestige" about the two magicians who battle for the best magic trick. In one scene in a theater, they show a great gravity boiler with a large manifold on it's side, and in the very next scene behind the stage, there is a huge series of pipes (the rad) shown. really cool scenery....an favorite boiler / rad shots?

Tim

Brad White_185

I was thinking \"Eraserhead\"

with that little dancing vision of a woman in the radiator...

"You really ARE sick..."

Ross_7

Blues Brothers

The Blues Brothers, when they're in the basement talking to Cab Calloway, right next to a Kewaunee boiler. "Boys, you otta know better than to talk to nuns like that!" That's my favorite.
Ross

Tombig_2

The Simpsons

Not a movie but how about when Bart and Milhouse get the janitors master key and sneak into the boiler room. They turn one tiny valve and all heck breaks loose...priceless. Or when Bart hides in a roof gooseneck and wonders if it "sucks" or "blows"

Unknown

toy soldiers

Mine would have to be 'Toy Soldiers' for the reason Tombig stated: by turning a single valve the whole place seems to go into "self destruct mode"

Unknown

about those

About the navy movies with the boilers going amok?

tommyoil

Godfather

When Clemenza is in his basement preparing Michael to rub out Silottzo. It appears that Clemenza has a hot water boiler in his house. Its the same house that Frankie Five Angels owned in part two. I always wondered if Frankie ever changed out the boiler when he bought the house from Clemenza. Looked like an old Thatcher or a Quiet May ( I always wondered who the mfr of that boiler was)

Brad White_185

You have to

give an awful lot of credit for the location scouts and casting crew to find such a boiler. Where does one go find a Quiet May or Thatcher and know that it is contemporary to the scene? Not just any old boiler.

I suppose it could have been a Burnham and the make-up department is made of geniuses.

"Go in for my close-up".

ScottMP

I'm going to say

The Sand Pebbles ... Steve McQueen is showing the Chinese guy how to work the steam boilers.

" This is the main steam valve " .... " Men Stem Wow "....

Later on when the head coolie gets crushed by the engine as it slips the wedge they have in it. AAHHHHHHHh.

A good friend of mine and I use to walk through a factory and look at the O,S+Y valves and say " Men Stem Wow ".

Scott

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Alan_11

Movie

I took my boys to see **** Tracey when it came out, and think I remember a scene where someone was chained to a runaway boiler.

Supply House Rick

From Commando

The really bad but entertaining Schwarzenegger movie. The fight in the boiler room. Arnold rips a pipe off the wall and throws it through the bad guy and says...

Let off some steam, Bennett.

The funny thing is steam is magically coming out of the disconnected pipe!

Joannie_15

The Shining

Not the Stanley Kubrick movie with Jack, but the tv mini-series one that Stephen King produced, to be more like the book. The cheap hotel owner won't address a "relief valve issue", so the steam builds up and has to be relieved manually with the big, burning hot valve. "Whatever you do, don't forget to do that EVERY DAY."

And our hero Danny, with a little from Tony, figures out that the valve hasn't been turned that day.....and the pressure is building and building, and Danny gets everyone out, except for the ghosts and his Daddy. Daddy finally figures out that he's being used, and he stops opening the valve, and instead closes it.

KA-BOOM!!!!!!

Josh_10

Not really sure what it's called but I recently saw a Jet Li movie with 3 beautiful brand new B&W steamers with Coen Delta NOx Burners.

I laughed when he punched right through a 1" think blind flange.

Dave Holdorf_2

Boiler Room

with Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel....

with a title like that, it can suck us all in to look for one, but alas, none to be seen

Dave Holdorf_2

The African Queen

With Humphrey Bogart.

When I spent some time on the ship, the Chief Engineer would make the first movie shown The African Queen every year.

Bullet holes and boilers, not a good mix.

UniR_3

Brazil

Robert De Niro plays a renegade heating engineer who is fed up with an overly bureaucratic system. He likes the hands on stuff but hates all the associated paperwork; paperwork that ultimately consumes him. Because of his renegade work, the government tries to bring him in for information retrieval but a real "bug" in the information system results in the wrong person being brought in for questioning and has a heart attack during the interrogation. That's the starting point of the movie...

Fantastic acting, sets and artwork but given the current situation with the war on terror, it is a bit haunting.

jackchips_2

Many good

ones and I'll add the Titanic.

Jack

laurence salvatore_2

boilers

If you notice every commercial that takes place in a home has a radiator in it. I identified Siegnfeld's living room radiator at a Dan Holohan seminar in Hartford long ago.