Plots(1)
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. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Jessie Matthews
UK
Best movies:
Tom Thumb (1958)
Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
Muriel Aked
UK
Best movies:
The Adventures of Colonel Blimp (1943)
The Blue Lamp (1950)
Boy Wonder (2010)
Cyril Smith
UK
Best movies:
Romance on the High Seas (1948)
Sidewalks of London (1938)
No Highway (1951)
Hartley Power
USA
Best movies:
Roman Holiday (1953)
Man with a Million (1954)
Dead of Night (1945)
Percy Parsons
USA
Best movies:
The Citadel (1938)
Blackmail (1929)
The Invaders (1941)
Gibb McLaughlin
UK
Best movies:
Oliver Twist (1948)
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Night and the City (1950)
Edmund Gwenn
UK
Best movies:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Life with Father (1947)
Gordon Harker
UK
Best movies:
The Farmer's Wife (1928)
The Ring (1927)
Champagne (1928)
Emlyn Williams
UK
Best movies:
The Citadel (1938)
The Magic Box (1951)
The Wreck Of The Mary Deare (1959)
Frank Lawton
UK
Best movies:
Belle Chrystall
UK
Best movies:
The Edge of the World (1937)
Martita Hunt
Argentina
Best movies:
Great Expectations (1946)
Becket (1964)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Ralph Richardson
UK
Best movies:
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The Heiress (1949)
O Lucky Man! (1973)
Donald Calthrop
UK
Best movies:
Blackmail (1929)
Shooting Stars (1928)
Murder! (1930)
O.B. Clarence
UK
Best movies:
Pygmalion (1938)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Eliot Makeham
UK
Best movies:
Night and the City (1950)
The Citadel (1938)
A Christmas Carol (1951)
Mary Jerrold
UK
Best movies:
The Queen of Spades (1949)
Jamaica Inn (1939)