Broken Journey (1948)

[Bendigo]

Can anyone enlighten me as to whether Bonar Colleano is in this film or not? He's not listed amongst the cast at this fine site or IMDB, but britishpictures.com and a couple of 1940s film mag articles say he is in it... Perhaps it's a blink and you'll miss him, but if anyone can tell me one way or the other!

[CaptainWaggett]

I watched it recently and didn't see him. Susan Shaw made a couple of Gainsborough Films that year - maybe he visited her on set and got caught up in the excitement of what was going on next door? (this seems to be more or less what happened with the uncredited celebs in The Blue Lamp). Or it could be a fake sighting like the oft-mentioned Wilfred Brambell appearance in The 39 Steps

[Bendigo]

Thanks Captain - I don't think he was involved with Susan Shaw at this point, that came a couple of years later, but you never know. It just puzzles me that both a magazine article and a film annual article (both published 1949 I think) credit him as playing IIRC 'a hard bitten press agent' or somesuch in 'Broken Journey'.



Maybe he was slated to be in it and then wasn't or his scenes ended up on the cutting room floor and no-one actually bothered to watch the film to see that he wasn't in it! Wouldn't surprise me as the Hancock radio box sets and recent press blurb sometimes credit Bill Kerr (aswell as Sid James) as being in the Carry On films and to date no-one has sighted him and he can't actually name which one himself!



The only other option would be if there was a stage version of 'Broken Journey' which Bonar was in and the publicity people got it mixed up, but I doubt there was - an aeroplane emergency landing and a stage character in an iron lung might have been a bit ambitious to stage