Film Forum

U.K., 1953
Directed by Charles Crichton
Screenplay by T.E.B. Clarke
With Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne, Hugh Griffith, Sid James
Photographed by Douglas Slocombe
Approx. 84 min. Restored DCP.

As, without benefit of rails, a locomotive saunters down a village street, the local drunk contemplates abstinence. Ealing's first comedy in color, and perhaps its coziest, as local clergy and gentry team up to save their decrepit branch line from British Rail cuts, thanks to an engine exhumed from museum retirement.