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If you've not seen The Fugitive, you've been living under a rock. But, for those of you who don't know it, the story goes like this: Dr. Richard Kimble's (Harrison Ford) wife is murdered by a one-armed man (Andreas Katsulus), but Kimble is blamed for the crime and sent to jail. In a freak accident, he manages to escape and while being pursued by Federal Marshal Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones), he searches for his wife's killer and the mastermind behond it.

A lot of the movie takes place in Chicago, so there's one shots of, scenes on and discussion of the "L". Below are a selection of QuickTime movie clips, sound files and pictures from the film. Below that, there's a list of random facts about the movie. (All clips and pictures are © 1993 Warner Brothers)

A shot from fight2.mov

QuickTime Movies

• fight1.mov (3.4MB): Kimble confronts the one-armed man on the "L"
• fight2.mov (2.6MB): Kimble and the one-armed man duke it out
• fight3.mov (5MB): Kimble handcuffs the one-armed man, then flees the train

Sounds

• balbo.wav (129K): Conductor's announcement for (the non-existamt) Balbo station
• cities.wav (323K): The deputies discuss what cities have elevated systems
• elevated.wav (452K): Gerard wants to know how the sound of an "L" differs from the sound of a ground-level train
• merch_mart.wav (645K): The deputies isolate that crucial piece of evidence: the Merchandise Mart PA announcement

Kimble comes onto an "L" platform (larger)

Kimble boards a Kimball- Belmont "L" train (larger)

An aerial shot of the Harrison Street curve (larger)

Kimble reviewing some papers on the "L" (larger)

Facts about the movie

• All the trains that appear in the movie are Morrison-Knudsen 3200-series cars.
• In one scene, Kimble boards a Ravenswood train on the Kimball-Belmont shuttle run, but there are two problems with this. First, he boards it from a Loop "L" station (though I can't identify which), and second, the next shot is of him going around the Harrison Street curve. The Kimball-Belmont shuttle goes neither of these places. (Maybe it was just an inside joke on his name.)
• The train Kimble beats up the one-armed man on is not displaying any destination signs.
• In perhaps the movie's most glaring error, the movie mentions Balbo station a number of times. No such station exits or has ever existed.
• In the same scene, Kimble pulls that cord with the red ball on the end that's on every "L" train. For him, its an emergency brake, which stops the train. In reality, they just open the doors.
• Samuel Gerard's big clue that Kimble's back in Chicago is that he can here the "L" announcement "Next stop: Merchanidse Mart" in the background of the payphone call Kimble makes to his lawyer. The problem is, those PA announcements are made inside the trains and could not be heard at a payphone outside the stations. (Sometimes you can't even hear them inside the train!)