Train of Events

1949
Approved
1h 28min

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Irina Baronova, John Clements, Valerie Hobson, Susan Shaw, and Jack Warner in Train of Events (1949)

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them, and how they deal with it.A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them, and how they deal with it.A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them, and how they deal with it.

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Anecdotes
First full length movie of Mark Dignam (Bolingbroke).

Gaffes
Within the first minute and a half of the film the locomotive pulling the Euston to Liverpool express varies several times in cut shots from the largest 4-6-2 "Duchess" express locomotive to a variety of different, smaller 4-6-0 locomotives, variously with or without smoke deflectors, with single or double chimneys, with tapered or parallel boilers and with different numbers and tender insignias ("British Railways" or "LMS"). At one point a "Duchess" is seen again. Locomotive classes seen pulling the same train without it stopping thus include "Duchess", "Jubilee", "Patriot" and "Royal Scot".

Citations
Doris Hardcastle (segment "The Engine Driver"): Oh, it's you...
Ron Stacey (segment "The Engine Driver"): Well, don't overwhelm me ducks. I dunno as my poor old ticker'll stand it.

Connexions
Featured in Remembering John Gregson (2019)

Bandes originales
These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
(uncredited)
Music by Jack Strachey and Harry Link
Lyrics by Eric Maschwitz
Sung by Leslie Hutchinson
Played in Philip's apartment

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6/10

Catch this train

'Train of Events' was a critical and commercial failure in its time but if you like these British films as much as I do I think you'll find plenty to enjoy here.

'Compendium' films were popular in the late Forties, several were made from the short stories of Somerset Maugham and then there was the greatest of them all 'Dead of Night'. 'Train of Events ', hardly in that class, contains four stories which all culminate on a train which we saw crashing in the opening scenes. So, like 'Friday the Thirteenth' ( a great portmanteau movie made in 1933) the climax is a matter of virtue rewarded and villainy punished as not everyone survives.

Interestingly television is quite strongly featured for the time (1949), a wind-up gramophone looks much more appropriate!

Valerie Hobson is first actor credited though her role is no larger than several others, she plays the forgiving wife of a philandering husband. In real life Hobson was married to British cabinet minister John Profumo whose relationship with Christine Keeler brought down a government in the sixties. Once again Life Imitates Art. In another story Peter Finch murders his faithless wife. He spouts chunks of Shakespeare, looked gaunt and middle-aged to me.

The model-work at the climax is satisfyingly convincing, I recommend 'Train of Events'