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.

Cast

Jessie Matthews

Jessie Matthews

as Millie

Ralph Richardson

Ralph Richardson

as Horace Dawes

Emlyn Williams

Emlyn Williams

as William Blake

Edmund Gwenn

Edmund Gwenn

as Wakefield

Max Miller

Max Miller

as Joe

Sonnie Hale

Sonnie Hale

as Alf, the Conductor

Cyril Smith

Cyril Smith

as Fred, the Driver

Muriel Aked

Muriel Aked

as Miss Twigg

Richard Hulton

Richard Hulton

as Johnny

Alfred Drayton

Alfred Drayton

as The Detective

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