Train of Events (1949)
Country: GB
Technical: bw/1.37:1 88m
Director: Sidney Cole, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden
Cast: Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Susan Shaw, Patric Doonan, Miles Malleson, Valerie Hobson, John Clements, Irina Baronova, Joan Dowling, Laurence Payne, Peter Finch, Mary Morris, Laurence Naismith, Michael Hordern
Synopsis:
Four individual stories of human interest are linked by a train crash between London and Liverpool. They concern, respectively: an engine driver and his family, a composer and his peccadilloes, a German POW gone awol, and an actor with an unfaithful wife.
Review:
Undeniable Ealing quality at the service of variable material and abrupt changes of tone: Charlie Crichton's "The Composer", though wittily written, is wildly at odds with Dearden's "The Prisoner of War", for example. Moreover, the stories are rather perfunctorily wound up at the close, constituting a marked anticlimax. Acting and other departments are top-notch, however, and the standout feature is the detail accorded to life on the railways.
Country: GB
Technical: bw/1.37:1 88m
Director: Sidney Cole, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden
Cast: Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Susan Shaw, Patric Doonan, Miles Malleson, Valerie Hobson, John Clements, Irina Baronova, Joan Dowling, Laurence Payne, Peter Finch, Mary Morris, Laurence Naismith, Michael Hordern
Synopsis:
Four individual stories of human interest are linked by a train crash between London and Liverpool. They concern, respectively: an engine driver and his family, a composer and his peccadilloes, a German POW gone awol, and an actor with an unfaithful wife.
Review:
Undeniable Ealing quality at the service of variable material and abrupt changes of tone: Charlie Crichton's "The Composer", though wittily written, is wildly at odds with Dearden's "The Prisoner of War", for example. Moreover, the stories are rather perfunctorily wound up at the close, constituting a marked anticlimax. Acting and other departments are top-notch, however, and the standout feature is the detail accorded to life on the railways.
Country: GB
Technical: bw/1.37:1 88m
Director: Sidney Cole, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden
Cast: Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Susan Shaw, Patric Doonan, Miles Malleson, Valerie Hobson, John Clements, Irina Baronova, Joan Dowling, Laurence Payne, Peter Finch, Mary Morris, Laurence Naismith, Michael Hordern
Synopsis:
Four individual stories of human interest are linked by a train crash between London and Liverpool. They concern, respectively: an engine driver and his family, a composer and his peccadilloes, a German POW gone awol, and an actor with an unfaithful wife.
Review:
Undeniable Ealing quality at the service of variable material and abrupt changes of tone: Charlie Crichton's "The Composer", though wittily written, is wildly at odds with Dearden's "The Prisoner of War", for example. Moreover, the stories are rather perfunctorily wound up at the close, constituting a marked anticlimax. Acting and other departments are top-notch, however, and the standout feature is the detail accorded to life on the railways.