Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
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
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Jessie Matthews as Millie |
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Ralph Richardson as Horace Dawes |
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Emlyn Williams as William Blake |
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Edmund Gwenn as Wakefield |
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Max Miller as Joe |
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Sonnie Hale as Alf, the Conductor |
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Cyril Smith as Fred, the Driver |
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Muriel Aked as Miss Twigg |
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Richard Hulton as Johnny |
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Alfred Drayton as The Detective |
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Hartley Power as American #1 |
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Percy Parsons as American #2 |
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Eliot Makeham as Henry Jackson |
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Ursula Jeans as Eileen Jackson |
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D.A. Clarke-Smith as Max |
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Gibb McLaughlin as Florist |
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Mary Jerrold as Flora Wakefield |
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Gordon Harker as Hamilton Briggs |
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Frank Lawton as Frank Parsons |
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Belle Chrystall as Mary Summers |
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O.B. Clarence as Clerk |
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Robertson Hare as Ralph Lightfoot |
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Martita Hunt as Agnes Lightfoot |
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Leonora Corbett as Dolly |
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Donald Calthrop as Hugh Nicholls |
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Ivor McLaren as Dancing Instructor |
| Directing | Victor Saville | Director |
| Writing | G.H. Moresby-White | Writer |
| Writing | Emlyn Williams | Dialogue |
| Writing | G.H. Moresby-White | Story |
| Writing | Sidney Gilliat | Story |
| Editing | R. E. Dearing | Editor |
| Art | Alfred Junge | Art Direction |
| Art | Alex Vetchinsky | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gordon Conway | Costume Design |
| Camera | Charles Van Enger | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Louis Levy | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Bretton Byrd | Original Music Composer |
