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The Titfield Thunderbolt

Ealing comedy about a group of villagers who battle to preserve the local railway line by running it themselves, until they are sabotaged in a midnight raid by a rival bus company.

Ealing comedy about a group of villagers and their battle to preserve the local railway line by running it themselves, an enterprise that goes well until they are sabotaged in a midnight raid by the rival bus company. Undaunted, they wheel out the Thunderbolt, an ancient exhibit in the village museum. Now all that remains is to put on a satisfactory run for the stickler of a government inspector.

1 hour, 20 minutes

On TV

Next Monday 12:00

Music Played

  • Algernon Drummond

    The Eton Boating Song

Credits

Role Contributor
Walter Valentine Stanley Holloway
Vicar Sam Weech George Relph
George Blakeworth Naunton Wayne
Squire Gordon Chesterford John Gregson
Harry Hawkins Sidney James
Vernon Crump Jack McGowran
Director Charles Crichton
Producer Michael Truman
Writer TEB Clarke

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