Friday the Thirteenth

Story

Synopsis

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

Writers

G.H. Moresby-White, Sidney Gilliat, Emlyn Williams

Language

English

Country

United Kingdom

Release date

1 November 1933

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  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

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  Percy Parsons

  American #2