The Iron Maiden

The Iron Maiden

It's a Train and a Comedy!

1963 · 98 min · ★ 6.6 · Comedy

The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher. The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.

Directed by Gerald Thomas · Written by Vivian Cox

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Michael Craig Jack Hopkins
Anne Helm Kathy Fisher
Jeff Donnell Miriam Fisher
Alan Hale Jr. Paul Fisher
Noel Purcell Admiral Sir Digby Trevelyan
Cecil Parker Sir Giles Thompson
Roland Culver Lord Upshott
Joan Sims Nellie Trotter
John Standing Humphrey Gore-Brown
Brian Oulton Vicar
Sam Kydd Fred Trotter
Judith Furse Mrs. Webb

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