- Actors: Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne, John Gregson, Godfrey Tearle
- Directors: Charles Crichton
- Writers: T.E.B. Clarke
- Producers: Michael Balcon, Michael Truman
- Language English
- Classification: U
- Studio: Warner
- VHS Release Date: 7 May 2001
- Run Time: 84 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CK6E
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,605 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Reading Simon Winchester's great book "The Map that Changed the World" reminded me of this movie which I saw with our children in the 1950s and in which they greatly delighted. Winchester describes how William Smith discovered so much of the geological strata of Great Britain in the early nineteenth century through studying the landscape and underground conditions of the region around Bath and Bristol. He describes how Smith supervised the cutting of a canal between Limpley Stoke and Camerton, the later route of the very railway on which the "Titfield Thunderbolt" was shot. This piece of information made me go and buy a video of the movie to see the landscape which enthralled William Smith. Indeed, there is more to this movie than the plot or the actors - apart from the train itself of course!
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Vintage Ealing comedy for trainspotters everywhere. When British Rail decides to rationalise the Titfield-Mallingford line out of existence,Villagers band together to run their own train. Eccentric Stanley Holloway puts up the cash so he can drink all day in the buffet car,The Reverend George Relph drives with visiting Bishop Godfrey Tearle stoking. But can the Thunderbolt be saved from devious local bus company bosses?
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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This was the first of the Ealing Studios films that I ever saw, and it is one of my most favourites. True, the plot isn't as strong as the wonderful Lady Killers or Lavender Hill Mob, but the nostalgic scenery and images of a since long gone era make it the perfect film to watch on a cold winter afternoon. If this doesn't warm your heart, nothing will!
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Thumbs up for the 'Thunderbolt',
I refer to Henry Parsnip's review on IMDB website, it reads: "it is so quintessentially post war British that it could not have been made by any other than Ealing Studios. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Lord Anon
Ealing Classic - The Titfield Thunderbolt
A film for every railway enthusiast - how a quaint little countryside village reacted to the news that 'their' railway was to be closed. Read more
Published on 29 Dec 2009 by Mr. Ejd Parrott
Glorious fun
A fine little movie this. Quiet and unassuming, whimsical and comic yet here we have a bunch of stalwart Brits standing up against the uncaring establishment. Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2008 by Mrs. Patricia Bark
One of the more mediocre Ealing films
After enjoying watching "The Ladykillers" and "Passport to Pimlico" recently , I was a little disappointed with "The Titfield Thunderbolt". Read more
Published on 16 Jan 2006 by L. Davidson
Enjoyable tosh
Without any hint of the dark side that made films like 'Kind Hearts and Coronets', 'The Ladykillers' and 'The Lavender Hill Mob' so enthralling (not to say ahead of their time),... Read more
Published on 2 Oct 2003 by paperbackboy
More like this, please ...
How anybody can criticise such a film (see below) is totally beyond me.
A harmless, feel-good, jaunty film with sunny skies, good old steam railways and rolling, wooded... Read more
Published on 14 Feb 2002 by Michael J. Taylor
A poor film from the Ealing stable
From the studio that brought us 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' and 'The Man In The White Suit' and the writer of 'Passport to Pimlico', come 'The Titfield Thunderbolt', an increadibly... Read more
Published on 7 Sep 2000
All Steamed Up.
'We were only out to provide entertainment that would fill cinemas on a rainy afternoon in post-war Britain'. That's how T.E.B. Read more
Published on 25 Aug 2000
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