Titfield Thunderbolt Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 regular Sound: Mono Year made: 1953 Country: United Kingdom Duration: 80 mins. Print: Colour Discs: 1 Genre: Comedy Starring: Stanley Holloway .... Valentine George Relph .... Sam Weech Naunton Wayne .... George Blakeworth John Gregson .... Gordon Godfrey Tearle .... Ollie Matthews, Bishop of Welchester Hugh Griffith .... Dan Gabrielle Brune .... Joan Sid James .... Hawkins (as Sidney James) If you are, like myself, a fervent anglophile and a terminal railway enthusiast, 'Titfield Thunderbolt' is the film you've spent your whole life seeking for in vain. That charming tale of a village's fight to keep its railway line active celebrates British countryside, trains and traditional values in a quite irresistible way, enhanced by a great cast and a superb technicolor. Despite being not among best-ranked Ealing comedies, 'Titfield Thunderbolt' still is a great feel-good movie, one you're glad to see on rainy or spleen days. [a]
