Classic train movies to screen beside the real things at Issaquah Depot

This Saturday, Jan. 9., the City of Issaquah Arts Commission will screen a series of movies at the Train Depot in downtown Issaquah. In keeping with the theme of the locale, the commission is screening “Great Train Movies.”

This Saturday, Jan. 9., the City of Issaquah Arts Commission will screen a series of movies at the Train Depot in downtown Issaquah.

In keeping with the theme of the locale, the commission is screening “Great Train Movies.”

First caboose off the platform will be “Twentieth Century.”

Made in 1934, this film features Oscar Jaffe as a successful Broadway director, and Lily Garland as one of his stars.

When she leaves his direction, his success goes with her. When he recognizes her aboard the Twentieth Century Limited, the train that both of them are riding, he tries to get her back for a new show. But accomplishing that feat isn’t as simple as he had thought.

On Feb. 13, the commission will screen the Agatha Christie classic “Murder on the Orient Express” (1974).

The series concludes on March 13 with Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes” (1938).