Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7469 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-02-02
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Formats: Black & White, PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 86 minutes

Synopsis
Four short stories give character studies of the people involved in a train disaster and how they deal with it.

Customer Reviews

A cleverly contrived and enjoyable film.
This good old British film starts with an horrific train crash, which looks remarkably realistic, although obviously they used OO-Gauge rather than the real thing - but then we all accepted that in those days.
Then, without giving away the outcome, it cleverly takes the action back three days to show the events that led to the main characters being on that train. ('Train of Events' - get it?) There are four story lines, those of the engine driver, a young couple who are desparate to make a new life for themselves, an actor with something rather nasty in his luggage, and a philandering musician who (on the instructions of his wife) is trying to shake off an amorous concert pianist.
As their stories are told we are treated to a clever mix of comedy, family drama, suspense and crime.
The action takes us up to and a little beyond the crash, showing the after affects on all the characters.
There are some fine stalwarts of the post-war film industry in this production. Good old Jack Warner, married to equally good old Gladys Henson, Peter Finch, a very young Leslie Phillips, the ever elegant Valerie Hobson and the impish-looking John Clements.
If you had forgotten what life could be like in London just after the War this will remind you.
Watch it and be entertained!

Train of Social History
Train of events is truly a product of its time reflecting all the immediate post war back round to a collection of tales of sadness, hope triumph and disaster. with some neat comic twists, I could watch it for all the real life scenes that now look totally alien to what we have today, the plot and acting are a BIG bonus though, throughly recommended.

Good Film, Poor Sound
This is a well-paced film, full of drama, with many lighter moments. The cast is well chosen, the story engaging, but it is badly let down by this DVD presentation. There are no subtitles and the sound is simply abymsmal. I had to make some very heavy adjustments to my home theatre audio to rid the film of dreadful hiss and a whistle on the soundtrack.

What a shame these wonderful pieces of a Britain long lost aren't given the respect that they desrve.

Buy it if you would love to see a portrait of Britain as she was, but beware of the sound!