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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.

Director: Victor Saville Writer: G.H. Moresby-White

Cast

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