The White Bus

Name: The White Bus
Genre: Drama
Duration: 46 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Patricia Healey, Arthur Lowe, John Sharp

19671967
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46m

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6.4/10

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Drama

An impassive young girl is taken from her suicidal Big city life, back to a city in North England, on a bizarre bus trip. Seen through the poetic eye of the camera, this is a commentary of d... Read allAn impassive young girl is taken from her suicidal Big city life, back to a city in North England, on a bizarre bus trip. Seen through the poetic eye of the camera, this is a commentary of doomed British morbidity.An impassive young girl is taken from her suicidal Big city life, back to a city in North England, on a bizarre bus trip. Seen through the poetic eye of the camera, this is a commentary of doomed British morbidity.

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6.4/10

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Arthur Lowe and Patricia Healey in The White Bus (1967)

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Trivia
Theatrical movie debut of Sir Anthony Hopkins (Brechtian).

Quotes
The Girl: [to suitor] I'll write.

Connections
Followed by Red and Blue (1967)

Soundtracks
Resolution der Kommunarden
Performed by Anthony Hopkins
Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht / Music by Hanns Eisler

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8/10

Surreal foreshadowing of Anderson's features

Cute, whacky and beautifully shot surrealistic short from Lindsay Anderson which clearly foreshadows if.... which followed a year later (plus O Lucky Man and Brittania Hospital too). The same cinematographer as on if.... plus the mix of black and white and colour shots.

Some key music sound cues from if... feature here for the first time plus the reading of the proverbs quote "wisdom is the principal thing..." which opens if....

There's also a bit of M Hulot's theme from Mon Oncle mixed in there plus some classic Tati-esque visual humor. I guess Mr Anderson had a whole lot of stuff already brewing that would come flowing out in force a little later.

Criterion definitely missed a trick not including this on the if.... DVD/Bluray - a little more relevant than the Oscar winning short about the deaf kids I'd say. All in all a charming, strange and chuckly way to spend forty minutes.

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