Friday the Thirteenth
1933It 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.
Acted in
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
D.A. Clarke-Smith
as Max
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