Friday the Thirteenth

Friday the Thirteenth

89 mins | Drama, Comedy | Nov. 1, 1933

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.

Friday the Thirteenth

89 mins | Drama, Comedy | Nov. 1, 1933

Friday the Thirteenth
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Gainsborough Pictures
Original title Friday the Thirteenth
Directors Victor Saville
Writers G.H. Moresby-White, Emlyn Williams, Sidney Gilliat

Cast

Jessie Matthews

as Millie

Ralph Richardson

as Horace Dawes

Emlyn Williams

as William Blake

Edmund Gwenn

as Wakefield

Max Miller

as Joe

Sonnie Hale

as Alf, the Conductor

Cyril Smith

as Fred, the Driver

Muriel Aked

as Miss Twigg

Richard Hulton

as Johnny

Alfred Drayton

as The Detective

Hartley Power

as American #1

Percy Parsons

as American #2

Eliot Makeham

as Henry Jackson

Ursula Jeans

as Eileen Jackson

Gibb McLaughlin

as Florist

Mary Jerrold

as Flora Wakefield

Gordon Harker

as Hamilton Briggs

Frank Lawton

as Frank Parsons

Belle Chrystall

as Mary Summers

O.B. Clarence

as Clerk

Robertson Hare

as Ralph Lightfoot

Martita Hunt

as Agnes Lightfoot

Leonora Corbett

as Dolly

Donald Calthrop

as Hugh Nicholls

Ivor McLaren

as Dancing Instructor