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6.2/10   134 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Val Guest (writer)
Release Date:
8 October 1954 (Finland) more
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Plot:
When heavy fog prevents all aircraft from leaving London airport, a group of passengers take an airline bus to get them to an alternative airport... more | add synopsis
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Too funny; ved-dy excellent British comedy more (7 total)

Cast

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Frankie Howerd ... Percy Lamb
Margaret Rutherford ... Miss Cynthia Beeston
Petula Clark ... Stewardess 'Nikki' Nicholls
George Coulouris ... Ernest Schroeder
Toke Townley ... Henry Waterman
Terence Alexander ... Pilot Peter Jones
Belinda Lee ... Janie Grey
John Horsley ... Inspector Henley
Anthony Oliver ... Uniformed Senior Airport Official
Stringer Davis ... Transport officer
Michael Gwynn ... Transport Dispatcher
Reginald Beckwith ... Telephone man
Marianne Stone ... Uniformed Airport Hostess
Lionel Murton ... One of the American Travellers
Lisa Gastoni ... The Airline Clerk (as Liza Gastone)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Scream in the Night (UK) (working title)
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Runtime:
78 min | USA:74 min (TCM print)
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
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8 out of 10 people found the following review useful.
Too funny; ved-dy excellent British comedy, 24 July 2001
Author: richard.fuller1

Full of stodgy British laughs from almost fifty years ago, this movie was excellent to watch when there was nothing else to do. See an incredibly young Petula Clark (it took me a while to recognize her), Margaret Rutherford as the stereotypical English grandmother complete with fox fur and parasol, but especially the laughs are had by Frankie Howard, virtually unknown to American audiences. As the bus driver of a bus with about a half dozen passengers who are stranded in one of hte legendary London fogs, Howard gets the best laughs just trying to find the bus in the fog to begin with. The movie does valley out but it is interesting to watch to the end. Petula does not sing tho. This was a fun movie, if for nothing else then to see an aged, non-HOllywood film with non-Hollywood actors.

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