Friday the Thirteenth
Released: November 1, 1933Runtime: 89 min
As a London bus hurtles toward a fateful collision on Friday the thirteenth, time reverses to reveal the hidden lives and desperate secrets of its passengers before destiny catches up.
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.
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Jessie Matthews
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Sonnie Hale
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Muriel Aked
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Cyril Smith
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Richard Hulton
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Max Miller
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Hartley Power
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