Friday the Thirteenth

Friday the Thirteenth

1933 · 89 min · ★ 6.4 · Comedy, Drama

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.

Directed by Victor Saville · Written by G.H. Moresby-White

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Jessie Matthews Millie
Ralph Richardson Horace Dawes
Emlyn Williams William Blake
Edmund Gwenn Wakefield
Max Miller Joe
Sonnie Hale Alf, the Conductor
Cyril Smith Fred, the Driver
Muriel Aked Miss Twigg
Richard Hulton Johnny
Alfred Drayton The Detective
Hartley Power American #1
Percy Parsons American #2

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