Time Bomb

Time Bomb - 1953 | 72mins | Thriller | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Ted Tetzlaff.
Producer: Richard Goldstone.
Script: Kem Bennett. (from the novel Death at Attention)
Cinematography: Tom Howard and Freddie Young.
Film Editing: Frank Clarke and Robert Watts.
Art Direction: Alfred Junge.
Original Music: John Addison and Ralph Erwin.

The Cast

Glenn Ford - Peter Lyncort
Maurice Denham - Jim Warilow
Anne Vernon - Janine Lyncort
Harcourt Williams - Vicar
Victor Maddern - Saboteur
Harold Warrender - Sir Evelyn Jordan
John Horsley - Constable Charles Baron
Campbell Singer - Inspector Brannon
Bill Fraser - Constable J. Reed

Plot Synopsis

Tense thriller featuring Glenn Ford in his first British film, that was released in the U.S. under the title Terror on a Train. It’s an enjoyable modest film only letdown by a failure to explain the saboteur’s motives.

A freight train carrying high explosives is booby-trapped with a hidden time bomb, and a WWII bomb disposal expert, Canadian Major Lyncourt (Glenn Ford), is on hand to locate and try to defuse it before catastrophe strikes. The train is shunted into a siding and police evacuate the Felsworth neighbourhood while the hunt goes on for the saboteur. As time begins to run out Lyncourt is assisted by policeman Jim Warilow (Maurice Denham) in searching for the device, whilst Lyncourt’s wife (Anna Vernon) furiously searches for her missing husband following a row earlier in the day.