Train of Events

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Time Out says

Trying to repeat the formula of Dead of Night, Ealing came a horrible cropper with this portmanteau telling, in flashback from a train crash, the stories which brought three groups of people aboard the Euston-Liverpool express. Shorn of the talents of Cavalcanti and Hamer, the direction is flat. The trilogy of shoddy yarns (melodramatic, comic, tragic) sprout clichés by the yard, and arbitrarily resort to the crash as a resolution. Worst of all is the linking device involving scenes from the life of a Cockney engine-driver and his wife, soon - as played by Jack Warner and Gladys Henson - to achieve cosy apotheosis as Mr and Mrs Dixon of Dock Green in The Blue Lamp.

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Release details

UK release:

1949

Duration:

88 mins

Cast and crew

Director:

Basil Dearden, Charles Crichton, Sidney Cole

Art Director:

Jim Morahan, Malcolm Baker-Smith

Music:

Leslie Bridgewater

Cast:

Valerie Hobson, John Clements, Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Susan Shaw, Joan Dowling, Laurence Payne, Peter Finch

Editor:

Bernard Gribble

Producer:

Michael Relph

Screenwriter:

Basil Dearden, TEB Clarke, Ronald Millar, Angus Macphail

Cinematography:

Lionel Banes, Gordon Dines

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Rated as: 2/5 (1 rating)

  • The only reason I watched this film was because am a steam railway enthusiast. Unfortunately, there was only about 15 to 20 minutes of railway footage which I found quite interesting. I'm afraid to say, the rest of the film was absolutely dreadful. The plot was boring and predictable. The direction was unimaginative and the acting on the whole, apart from Valerie Hobson was very uninspiring. I thought Laurence Payne was particularly bad in this film. His voice came over as very monotonous and almost robotic. This was not one of Ealings best.

    John Manley Fri Jun 5 2009
    Rated as: 2/5
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