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The Last Journey

  • 19351935
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 6m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
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POPULARITY
250,525
21,204
Judy Gunn, Godfrey Tearle, and Hugh Williams in The Last Journey (1935)
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Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife ... Read allBob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, ... Read allBob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in charact... Read all
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169
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POPULARITY
250,525
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    • Director
      • Bernard Vorhaus
    • Writers
      • Joseph Jefferson Farjeon(original story)
      • H. Fowler Mear(screenplay)
      • John Soutar(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Hugh Williams
      • Godfrey Tearle
      • Julien Mitchell
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Bernard Vorhaus
    • Writers
      • Joseph Jefferson Farjeon(original story)
      • H. Fowler Mear(screenplay)
      • John Soutar(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Hugh Williams
      • Godfrey Tearle
      • Julien Mitchell
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    • 10User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    Julien Mitchell in The Last Journey (1935)
    The Last Journey (1935)
    Olga Lindo and Julien Mitchell in The Last Journey (1935)
    Eve Gray, Godfrey Tearle, and Hugh Williams in The Last Journey (1935)

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    Hugh Williams
    Hugh Williams
    • Gerald Winter
    Godfrey Tearle
    Godfrey Tearle
    • Sir Wilfred Rhodes
    Julien Mitchell
    • Bob Holt
    Judy Gunn
    • Diana
    Michael Hogan
    • Charlie
    Olga Lindo
    Olga Lindo
    • Mrs. Holt
    Eliot Makeham
    Eliot Makeham
    • Pip
    Eve Gray
    • Daisy
    Nelson Keys
    Nelson Keys
    • The Frenchman
    Frank Pettingell
    Frank Pettingell
    • Goddard
    Mickey Brantford
    • Tom
    Sydney Fairbrother
    • Mrs. Grebe
    • (as Sidney Fairbrother)
    Viola Compton
    • Miss Smith
    Sam Wilkinson
    • The Stutterer
    John Lloyd
    • The Steward
    • (uncredited)
    Aubrey Mallalieu
    Aubrey Mallalieu
    • Mulchester Doctor
    • (uncredited)
    Cyril Smith
    • Postal Sorter
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Bernard Vorhaus
    • Writers
      • Joseph Jefferson Farjeon(original story)
      • H. Fowler Mear(screenplay)
      • John Soutar(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      This film is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald 4 April 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-1946. Because of poor documentation (feature films were often not identified by title in conventional sources) no record has yet been found of its initial television broadcast. It's earliest documented telecast was Saturday 2 July 1949 on WCBS (Channel 2), New York City, as one of about three dozen British titles picked up for television distribution in the USA by the CBS Television Network. It first aired in Cincinnati Thursday 1 September 1949 on WCPO (Channel 7).
    • Goofs
      Interesting locations for railway enthusiasts but a laughable plot, with the driver saying the "communication cord" wouldn't work because he had turned off the steam.

      He would have had to tamper with the automatic vacuum brake on each carriage to stop the system working. The system was designed to stop such tampering.

      It was a fail safe braking system where anyone pulling the cord would admit air into the vacuum pipe, which would apply the brakes throughout the train.

      Bizarrely no passenger tried pulling the "cord".
    • Alternate versions
      Video from a restored and remastered version by the BBC from National Film and Television Archive [uk] materials.
    • Connections
      Featured in Truly, Madly, Cheaply!: British B Movies (2008)

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    8/10
    Excellent low budget British thriller
    Although only an hour long, The Last Journey is a very gripping vintage British thriller.

    A train driver, just about to undertake his last job before retiring discovers his fireman is having an affair with his wife, so he takes a gun and threatens him with it and he forces him to keep putting coal into the fire to make the loco go faster. As a result, the train misses all its stops and arrives at its destination early. One of the passengers manages to get the driver to slow down. There is a rather motley collection of passengers on board including a newly married couple on honeymoon, a pair of crooks, a woman who tells everyone not to drink alcohol, a couple with some very lively children, a Frenchman and a lone boy.

    Despite its low budget and age, I enjoyed watching this movie. It is available in the UK on VHS as a double feature with The Ghost Camera.

    A must for all vintage movie fans and also rail enthusiasts. Excellent.

    Rating: 4 stars out of 5.
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    • Release date
      • April 27, 1936 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Panik på Nordexpressen
    • Filming locations
      • Paddington Station, Paddington, London, England, UK
    • Production company
      • Julius Hagen Productions
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    • Budget
      • £27,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 6 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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