This new TV advert for Virgin Trains takes scenes from classic movies in which the characters are seen travelling on trains and shows them interacting with modern-day passengers on the new Pendolino train.

Films, actors and actresses featured are: Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett and Gary F Warren (The Railway Children, 1970), Albert Finney (Murder on the Orient Express, 1974), Dame May Whitty and Margaret Lockwood (The Lady Vanishes, 1938), Cary Grant and Eva Saint Marie (North by Northwest, 1959), Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis (Some Like it Hot, 1959), and Sir John Mills (In Which we Serve, 1942).

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