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- Wilding's Maid
- (as Elsie Wagstaffe)
- Passenger
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- Ticket Inspector
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- Elderly Gentleman
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Recensioni in evidenza
Here's the basic plot setup. A married man and married woman leave their spouses and run away on a train together. Racked with quilt, the man decides to return to his home. It appears that the emergency chord on the train gets pulled and a train wreck ensues killing 10 people. The man soon becomes the chief suspect as the person who caused the accident, yet there is much more going on here than first appears.
Some people might find the style of the ending a bit of a disappointment, but I think it was actually pretty fresh in 1949, and not at all the cliché it later became when overused in later movies and television shows. It is more logical and more satisfying than most endings of this style.
I can understand why a viewer might think the movie shifted gears too frequently, and agree that the ending is lame. Up to that insipid finale, I was having a great time, thanks to the increasing arc of insanity, and a fine, final performance by Walls. That ending, however, brought me up short.
To Stop Train In Case Of Emergency Pull Down The Chain. Penalty For Improper Use £5.
That's a woman in a million.
Very tidy Brit noir this one. The story is a bit hokey as it enters Twilight Zone territories, but the twists, turns and mystery quotient keep it lively to hold the attention. The low budget is never a problem for Birt, who aided by the excellent Hillier, brings a feverish realm to the story by way of canted angles, shadow play and hazes, while certain images (shapes of doorways etc) are cunningly teasing the audience about what is going on. Cast are very strong to round this out as more than worth the time of the Brit noir film fan. 7/10
Lo sapevi?
- QuizMost of the people listed in the newspaper as killed in the train crash were actually names of the movie crew: Jack Hanbury, Desmond Mavis (Davis), Joan Davis, Erwin Hillier, and Ivan King.
- BlooperThe train stops unexpectedly when the communication cord is pulled. A goods train subsequently collides with it. A member of the Railway Accident Investigation Department believes that the pulling of the communication cord caused the collision. While rear-end collisions on railways are not unknown, railways have complex systems to prevent them. These systems too may fail, but no railway official would believe that an unexpected stoppage would cause a collision.
- Citazioni
Jerves Wilding: Everything's gone the way I wanted it since the time you decided to run away with my wife.
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- Paese di origine
- Lingua
- Celebre anche come
- Das Ende einer Reise
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Alliance Studios, Twickenham, Middlesex, Inghilterra, Regno Unito(studio: made at THE ALLIANCE STUDIOS Riverside.)
- Azienda produttrice
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- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 20 minuti
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- Proporzioni
- 1.37 : 1