The Titfield Thunderbolt

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Director Charles Crichton and Tibby Clarke team up for the first Ealing comedy to be produced in Technicolor. When an antiquated railway line is threatened with closure, the villagers decide to run it themselves and enter into frenzied competition with the local bus route, with hilarious consequences.

Cast In Alphabetical Order

Edie Martin as Emily Ewan Roberts as Alec Pearce Gabrielle Brune as Joan George Relph as Weech Godfrey Tearle as The Bishop Herbert C. Walton as Seth Hugh Griffith as Dan Jack MacGowran as Vernon Crump John Gregson as Gordon John Rudling as Clegg Michael Trubshawe as Ruddock Naunton Wayne as Blakeworth Reginald Beckwith as Coggett Sidney James as Hawkins Stanley Holloway as Valentine

Crew

Produced by Michael Truman
Directed by Charles Crichton
Original Screenplay by T.E.B. Clarke
Running Time 80 minutes.
Released 1953