Too much of everything

Just perfect...

hyped garbage

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

After Sunset Blvd. Holden comes with another noir in a thriller police drama at the famous Union Station in Los Angeles.apart Barry Fitzgerald who was a true great actor all remaining casting is unknown at this time,just the newcomer Lyle Bettger was the great good surprise living a cold crook,which stalked him during your entire career,Jan Sterling in a small role was perfect as blondie fatal woman ,since the begining to the end the picture don't loose the breath,the hectic pace is high point of without relief,even in a minor picture don't owe nothing to others alike noir productions!!!Resume:First watch: 2018 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8

This is perfectly efficient but still not something I will remember a day from now. Why is this? It has solid noir elements: a blind girl kidnapped, a woman inspiring the detective story of looking for her, men at every corner (cops) looking, waiting. The blind girl in the nested story of the kidnapper, helpless and bounced along by greater forces. I would change not a thing of those. It is all about vision and the visual world love creates.But the film spends itself in just the tight bridging from one element to the next. It lacks the inner tension, that feeling in life of a more pervasive connectedness where we mysteriously encounter some missing part of ourselves that we look for all around us.Noir Meter: 1/4

I noticed that one of the other reviewers mentioned how he hated the kidnap victim, as she was very annoying. Yes, the kidnapped girl is annoying...very annoying. She screams and screams so much, I was hoping eventually that the bad guys shot her to shut her up!! Despite this, it's still a pretty good crime film.The film begins with a lady on a train (Nancy Olson) noticing a couple guys acting strangely. She alerts the conductor--who seems to think she's crazy. But she insists he contact the police who investigate. Eventually, they discover the lady is right--something IS amiss. It seems they are part of a gang that have kidnapped a rich man's blind daughter. And, it turns out their boss is very blood-thirsty and has no intention of letting the girl go free once he obtains the ransom. Can the good cop (William Holden) catch these big jerks before it's too late? The toughness of the plot and the villain make this a film worth seeing. I noticed another review that complained about the casting of Barry Fitzgerald as the cop heading the investigation. I thought her was fine and played a nearly identical role in "The Naked City"--so similar a person might mistakenly think "Union Station" is a sequel. It's not, but both are very good, taut crime dramas that are worth your time.

Everyone remembers William Holden for his two big-time and Oscar-nominated movies in 1950 -- "Sunset Boulevard" and "Born Yesterday." But ask anyone about Nancy Olson -- the heroine of "Union Station" who plays Holden's his-girl-Friday -- and see if you get more than a blank stare. How ironic then that she played Holden's love interest in "Sunset Boulevard" and received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress."Union Station" takes place almost entirely in the titular Chicago train port and boasts a somewhat memorable finale set underneath the station, but the movie as a whole is forgettable. It's a disposable entry in the police procedural noirs that were so popular at the time, and spends a lot of its time explaining the logistics the Union Station security team follows in catching the kidnappers of a business tycoon's daughter.The film isn't very exciting, but it didn't exactly try my patience either, mostly because it's only 81 minutes long. Still, you can find a hundred other similar movies that are more worth your time.Grade: B-