Train of Events (1949)
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The British Train of Events explores the consequences of a railroad accident from four different viewpoints. Jack Warner plays the engine driver, whose daughter's boy friend is responsible for the crash. Peter Finch plays a homicidal actor whose "perfect murder" of his wife is thwarted by the wreck. Lonely orphan girl Joan Dowling is killed while trying to help her fellow passenger, duplicitous German POW Laurence Payne, escape. The fourth story is the humorous tale of a woman scorned (Valerie Hobson), who survives the crash with a renewed determination to get even with her composer-conductor lover (John Clements). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jack Warner, Valerie Hobson, (more)
- Director(s):
- Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, (more)
Synopsis of Train of Events
The British Train of Events explores the consequences of a railroad accident from four different viewpoints. Jack Warner plays the engine driver, whose daughter's boy friend is responsible for the crash. Peter Finch plays a homicidal actor whose "perfect murder" of his wife is thwarted by the wreck. Lonely orphan girl Joan Dowling is killed while trying to help her fellow passenger, duplicitous German POW Laurence Payne, escape. The fourth story is the humorous tale of a woman scorned (Valerie Hobson), who survives the crash with a renewed determination to get even with her composer-conductor lover (John Clements). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Train of Events
- Jack Warner - Jim Hardcastle
- John Clements - Raymond Hillary [The Composer]
- Peter Finch - Phillip [The Actor]
- John Gregson - Malcolm [The Composer]
- Susan Shaw - Doris Hardcastle
- Gladys Henson - Mrs. Hardcastle
- Olga Lindo - Mrs. Bailey [The Prisoner Of War]
- Neal Arden - [The Actor]
- Laurence Naismith - Joe Hunt [The Actor]
- Wylie Watson - [The Actor]
- Denis Webb - [The Actor]
- Philip Ashley - [The Actor]
- Arthur Hambling - [The Actor]
- Johnnie Schofield - [The Actor]
- Doris Yorke - Mrs. Hunt [The Actor]
- Leslie Phillips - Stacey's Fireman
- Lyndon Brook - Actors [The Actor]
- Brian Coleman - [The Actor]
- Valerie Hobson - Stella [The Composer]
- Irina Baronova - Irina [The Composer]
- Joan Dowling - Ella [The Prisoner Of War]
- Laurence Payne - Richard [The Prisoner Of War]
- Mary Morris - Louise [The Actor]
- Patric Doonan - Ron Stacey
- Mark Dignam - Bolingbroke [The Actor]
- Henry Hewitt - [The Actor]
- Guy Verney - Producer [The Actor]
- Miles Malleson - Timekeeper
- Philip Dale - Hardcastle's Fireman
- Will Ambro - [The Actor]
- Thelma Grigg - [The Actor]
- Charles Morgan - Plainclothesmen [The Actor]
- Percy Walsh - [The Actor]
- Michael Hordern
- Gwen Cherrill - Charmian [The Composer]
- Director(s):
- Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Sidney Cole
- Writer(s):
- T.E.B. Clarke, Basil Dearden, Angus MacPhail
- Producer(s):
- Michael Relph, Michael Balcon
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