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The Runaway Bus( 1953)

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Go on, laugh... And the best of luck!

Overview

When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another airport. The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Frankie Howerd

      Percy Lamb

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      Margaret Rutherford

      Miss Cynthia Beeston

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      Petula Clark

      Stewardess 'Nikki' Nicholls

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      George Coulouris

      Ernest Schroeder

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      Terence Alexander

      Pilot Peter Jones

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      Toke Townley

      Henry Waterman

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      Belinda Lee

      Janie Grey

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      John Horsley

      Inspector Henley

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      Anthony Oliver

      Uniformed Senior Airport Official

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      Sam Kydd

      Airport Security Officer

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      Marianne Stone

      Travel Girl

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      Stringer Davis

      2nd Transport Officer

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      Michael Gwynn

      1st Transport Officer

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      Reginald Beckwith

      Telephone Man

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      Lionel Murton

      American Traveller

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      Lisa Gastoni

      Receptionist

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      Cyril Conway

      1st Crook

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      Arthur Lovegrove

      2nd Crook

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      Alastair Hunter

      Detective Spencer

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Mar 27 2022
    It must have been terrible to have to share a stage/screen with Margaret Rutherford. She only had to look at the camera and she had already stolen the scene - a consummate comedy actress whom, alongside Frankie Howerd, keeps this rather daft crime caper bubbling along quite nicely for 75 minutes. A pea-soup fog has delayed all the flights from London's Heathrow Airport - as was it's wont back then - and so a motley collection of passengers are having to take a coach to a nearby airport. Unbeknown to them, though, there has been a daring raid on a warehouse at the airport and their bus contains ...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • airport
    • bus
    • fog
    • caper comedy