Friday the Thirteenth

Overview

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.

Cast

Jessie Matthews

Millie

Ralph Richardson

Horace Dawes

Emlyn Williams

William Blake

Edmund Gwenn

Wakefield

Max Miller

Joe

Sonnie Hale

Alf, the Conductor

Cyril Smith

Fred, the Driver

Muriel Aked

Miss Twigg

N/A

Richard Hulton

Johnny

Alfred Drayton

The Detective

Hartley Power

American #1

Percy Parsons

American #2