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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.

1933 |1h 29m |  Comedy, Drama

Cast

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Jessie Matthews

Millie

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Ralph Richardson

Horace Dawes

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Emlyn Williams

William Blake

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Edmund Gwenn

Wakefield

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Max Miller

Joe

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Sonnie Hale

Alf, the Conductor

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Cyril Smith

Fred, the Driver

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Muriel Aked

Miss Twigg

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Alfred Drayton

The Detective

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Hartley Power

American #1

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Eliot Makeham

Henry Jackson

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Ursula Jeans

Eileen Jackson

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D.A. Clarke-Smith

Max

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Gibb McLaughlin

Florist

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Mary Jerrold

Flora Wakefield

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Gordon Harker

Hamilton Briggs

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Frank Lawton

Frank Parsons

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O.B. Clarence

Clerk

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Robertson Hare

Ralph Lightfoot

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Martita Hunt

Agnes Lightfoot

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Donald Calthrop

Hugh Nicholls

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Status

Released

Language

English

Budget

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