Friday the Thirteenth
Friday the Thirteenth

Movie·1933·1h 29m

Friday the Thirteenth

Directed By

Victor Saville

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

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// overview

The Story

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.

Cinematography

Charles Van Enger

Music

Louis Levy

Editor

R. E. Dearing

Themes

adulterysuperstitionblackmail

Production House

Gainsborough Pictures

Audience Score

64%

10 votes

Skip12%
Timepass29%
Go for it37%
Perfection22%

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// cast

Cast

Jessie Matthews

Jessie Matthews

Millie

Ralph Richardson

Ralph Richardson

Horace Dawes

Emlyn Williams

Emlyn Williams

William Blake

Edmund Gwenn

Edmund Gwenn

Wakefield

Max Miller

Max Miller

Joe

Sonnie Hale

Sonnie Hale

Alf, the Conductor

Cyril Smith

Cyril Smith

Fred, the Driver

Muriel Aked

Muriel Aked

Miss Twigg

Richard Hulton

Johnny

Alfred Drayton

Alfred Drayton

The Detective

Hartley Power

Hartley Power

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Percy Parsons

Percy Parsons

American #2

Eliot Makeham

Eliot Makeham

Henry Jackson

Ursula Jeans

Ursula Jeans

Eileen Jackson

D.A. Clarke-Smith

D.A. Clarke-Smith

Max

Gibb McLaughlin

Gibb McLaughlin

Florist

Mary Jerrold

Mary Jerrold

Flora Wakefield

Gordon Harker

Gordon Harker

Hamilton Briggs

// crew

Crew

Victor Saville

Director

G.H. Moresby-White

Writer, Story

Sidney Gilliat

Sidney Gilliat

Story

R. E. Dearing

Editor

Charles Van Enger

Director of Photography

Louis Levy

Original Music Composer

Bretton Byrd

Original Music Composer

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