Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

jmvpoulsen In the description of the technical specs IMDb lists it as being in 1:85. That is incorrect it is In 2:35 Panavision. I own the DVD and it is Anamorphic widescreen. I also recently saw it on the Fox Movie Channel and it was presented in 2:35 widescreen. Great Oregon locations and Acting especially by Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine and a very young Keith Carradine.

sneakygreenalien Had the movie sitting around for a few months only because I had others to watch. Thought it was a fine movie and a must see. Train lovers should really like this flick.Cool scenes...Ernest Borgnine clubbed this hobo over the head with his hammer and the guy fell between the cars. The train then proceeded to run the poor guy over cutting him in half!Ernest Borgnine locked one of the cars with Lee Marvin and Keith Carradine inside. So Lee Marvin started a fire and busted out chicken in hand followed by Keith Carradine.The movie was kind of a head of its time.

kenjha During the Depression of the 1930s, hobos get around by hopping onto trains, but one man wages a war against the free loaders. It's a bad sign when the film opens with a song comparing and contrasting a train and a man. The premise of the story is not particularly interesting, and the execution leaves little doubt that this was a bad idea. The acting is bad all around. Borgnine is an unbelievably sadistic conductor who would happily kill a man who gets on his train without paying. Marvin and Carradine play hobos, and the latter is rather annoying. The quality of Aldrich's films vary wildly from good to awful; this violent and ugly film is not one of his better efforts.

cosmicly Fans of "Emperor Of The North" may disagree on whether this film is superficial or deep, and they may enjoy it for different reasons.Fans who like this movie on a "superficial" level will certainly enjoy the sometimes slapstick comedy, and the gags that are perpetrated by the hobos in their quest to ride the railroad trains for free. It is certainly legitimate to see the movie as primarily an elaborate, albeit thoroughly enjoyable, bar room joke.Fans who like this movie on a "deeper" level will see the battle between Shack (Ernest Borgnine) and A No. 1 (Lee Marvin) as a classic struggle between the "haves" and the "have nots," the "cops" and the "robbers," the "establishment" and the "rebels," or as the ultimate battle for Alpha Male supremacy.However you view this movie, it is a worthwhile look at life during the Great Depression, and how it plays out for a large portion of the population who became homeless through little or no fault of their own.