
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.

Jessie Matthews
Millie

Ralph Richardson
Horace Dawes

Emlyn Williams
William Blake

Edmund Gwenn
Wakefield

Max Miller
Joe

Sonnie Hale
Alf, the Conductor

Cyril Smith
Fred, the Driver

Muriel Aked
Miss Twigg
Richard Hulton
Johnny

Alfred Drayton
The Detective

Hartley Power
American #1

Percy Parsons
American #2

Blackmail
Blackmail

Dogville
Dogville

Swimming Bird
Swimming Bird

To Die For
To Die For

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum

The Bridges of Madison County
The Bridges of Madison County

Manhattan
Manhattan

Wild Strawberries
Wild Strawberries

Wild Things
Wild Things

In the Mood for Love
In the Mood for Love

Playing by Heart
Playing by Heart