Friday the Thirteenth is a 1933 British drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale and Muriel Aked.[1]
| Friday the Thirteenth | |
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| Directed by | Victor Saville |
| Written by | |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Charles Van Enger |
| Edited by | R. E. Dearing |
| Music by | Bretton Byrd |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Gaumont British Distributors |
Release dates |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | England |
| Language | English |
Plot
editThe film depicts the lives of several passengers in the hours before they are involved in a bus crash.[2]
Cast
edit- Jessie Matthews as Millie
- Sonnie Hale as Alf the Conductor
- Muriel Aked as Miss Twigg
- Cyril Smith - Fred the Driver
- Richard Hulton as Johnny
- Max Miller as Joe
- Alfred Drayton as The Detective
- Hartley Power as American tourist
- Percy Parsons as American tourist
- Ursula Jeans as Eileen Jackson
- Eliot Makeham as Henry Jackson
- D. A. Clarke-Smith as Max
- Gibb McLaughlin as Florist
- Edmund Gwenn as Mr Wakefield
- Mary Jerrold as Flora Wakefield
- Gordon Harker as Hamilton Briggs
- Emlyn Williams as William Blake
- Frank Lawton as Frank Parsons
- Belle Chrystall as Marry Summers
- O. B. Clarence as Clerk
- Robertson Hare as Ralph Lightfoot
- Martita Hunt as Agnes Lightfoot
- Leonora Corbett as Dolly
- Ralph Richardson as Horace Dawes
- Donald Calthrop as Hugh Nicholls
- Ivor McLaren as Dancing instructor
- Winifred Poole as Martha
- Wally Patch as Bookmaker
Critical reception
editAllMovie wrote, "Extraordinarily well cast for a mid-1930s British film, Friday the 13th affords excellent acting opportunities for the likes of Jessie Mathews, Ursula Jeans, Frank Lawton, Ralph Richardson, Max Miller, O.B. Clarence and Emlyn Williams, among many many others. While American critics were impressed by the film, British reviewers were less kind, commenting that the constant switch from one character to another only results in confusion (PS: It doesn't)."[3]
Home media
editOn 6 April 2015, Friday the Thirteenth was released on DVD as part of Volume 1 of The Jesse Matthews Revue.[4]
References
edit- ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH (1933)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
- ^ "BFI Screenonline: Friday the Thirteenth (1933)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
- ^ "Friday the 13th (1933) - Victor Saville - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^ "The Jessie Matthews Revue Vol. 1 [DVD]". amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
External links
edit- Friday the Thirteenth at IMDb
- Friday the Thirteenth at the BFI's Screenonline
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