Friday the Thirteenth (Original title)Friday the 13th (Alternative title)
Date: 05 February 1934 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Victor Saville
Synopsis: Several people are involved in a bus crash. In flashback we see events from the 24 hours which lead up to their shared disaster, with the interleaving of seven stories showing how the characters happened to be on the bus at that particular time. Reflecting the seven story strands, the film's cast list is divided into seven sections, as follows: On The Bus, Joe of the Caledonian Market, Jackson the Shipping Clerk, Wakefield the 'City' Man, Blake the Gentleman of Fortune, Mr. Lightfoot in the Park, and Millie the Non-stop Variety Girl.
Genre: Drama
Releases
Date: 1933Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 86 mins Length: 7796 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 05 February 1934 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Victor Saville
Synopsis: Several people are involved in a bus crash. In flashback we see events from the 24 hours which lead up to their shared disaster, with the interleaving of seven stories showing how the characters happened to be on the bus at that particular time. Reflecting the seven story strands, the film's cast list is divided into seven sections, as follows: On The Bus, Joe of the Caledonian Market, Jackson the Shipping Clerk, Wakefield the 'City' Man, Blake the Gentleman of Fortune, Mr. Lightfoot in the Park, and Millie the Non-stop Variety Girl.
Genre: Drama
Releases
Date: 1933Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 86 mins Length: 7796 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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A Gainsborough Picture: Gainsborough Pictures, Presents: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, Controlled by: Gaumont British Distributors Ltd., [Producer]: Michael Balcon, [Member of] Production Personnel: Angus MacPhail, [Member of] Production Personnel: Ian Dalrymple, [Member of] Production Personnel: George Gunn, Louis Levy, Unit Manager: Herbert Mason, Scenario: G.H. Moresby-White, Dialogue: Emlyn Williams, [Story] By: Sidney Gilliat, G.H. Moresby-White, Photography: C. Van Enger, Film Editor: R.E. Dearing, Art Direction: Alfred Junge, A. Vetchinsky, Costumes: Gordon Conway, [Sound] Recordist: H.E. Hand, Recorded on: British Acoustic Film, [Recorded] at: Gainsborough Studios
Cast
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Sonnie Hale (Alf, the conductor), Cyril Smith (Fred, the driver), Muriel Aked (Miss Twigg), Richard Hulton (Johnny), Wally Patch (race track bookmaker), Max Miller (Joe), Alfred Drayton (the detective), Hartley Power, Percy Parsons (the American), Eliot Makeham (Henry Jackson), Ursula Jeans (Eileen Jackson), D.A. Clarke-Smith (Max), Gibb McLaughlin (florist), Edmund Gwenn (Norman Wakefield), Mary Jerrold (Flora Wakefield), Gordon Harker (Hamilton Briggs), Emlyn Williams (William Blake), Frank Lawton (Frank Parsons), Belle Chrystall (Mary Summers), O.B. Clarence (clerk), Robertson Hare (Ralph Lightfoot), Martita Hunt (Agnes Lightfoot), Leonora Corbett (Dolly), Jessie Matthews (Millie Adams), Ralph Richardson (Horace Dawes, the schoolmaster), Donald Calthrop (Hugh Nicholls), Ivor McLaren (dance instructor), John Clifford, Hill-Mitchelson ([uncredited])