

88 minutes
1/18/1949
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

Jack Warner
as Jim Hardcastle

Gladys Henson
as Mrs Hardcastle

Patric Doonan
as Ron Stacey

Valerie Hobson
as Stella

Joan Dowling
as Ella

Olga Lindo
as Mrs. Bailey

Susan Shaw
as Doris Hardcastle
Philip Dale
as Hardcastle's Fireman

Miles Malleson
as Johnson, the Timekeeper

Leslie Phillips
as Stacey's Fireman
Percy Walsh
as District Superintendent
Will Ambro
as Lancashire Railwayman

John Clements
as Raymond Hillary
Irina Baronova
as Irina Norozova

John Gregson
as Malcolm Murray-Bruce
Gwen Cherrell
as Charmian
Jacqueline Byrne
as Television Announcer
Neal Arden
as The Compere
Thelma Grigg
as The Harpist

Laurence Payne
as Richard
Denis Webb
as Clerk at Shipping Office

Peter Finch
as Philip Mason

Mary Morris
as Louise

Laurence Naismith
as Joe Hunt
Doris Yorke
as Mrs. Hunt

Michael Hordern
as First Plain Clothes Man
Charles Morgan
as Second Plain Clothes Man

Mark Dignam
as Bolingbroke

Guy Verney
as The Producer
Philip Ashley
as Actor
Bryan Coleman
as Actor

Henry Hewitt
as Actor

Lyndon Brook
as Actor