GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

JohnHowardReid Director: BERNARD VORHAUS. Screenplay: H. Fowler Mear, John Soutar. Based on an original screen story by J. Jefferson Farjeon. Photography: William Luff, Percy Strong. Supervising film editor: Jack Harris. Film editor: Lister Laurance. Art director: James A. Carter. Hair styles: Charles. Music director: W.L. Trytel. Production supervisor: John Brahm. Assistant director: James Davidson. Sound recording: Baynham Honri, Leo Wilkins. Visafone Sound System. Producer: Julius Hagen. Filmed with the full and courteous co-operation of the Great Western Railway. Cars supplied through the courtesy of Messsrs A.C. (Acedes) Cars, Ltd. A Twickenham Film Studios Production, released in the U.K. through Twickenham Film Distributors: October 1935. U.S. release through Olympic Pictures. Not copyrighted in the U.S.A. Not theatrically released in Australia. 66 minutes. SYNOPSIS: The driver of an express train suffers a breakdown. COMMENT: A definite must-see for railway buffs (in fact it would easily figure on the top ten), thanks to the wholehearted co-operation of the Great Western Railway which has produced some absolutely staggering scenes and effects. Aside from a bit of obvious under-cranking right at the very beginning of the movie, technical credits are extremely proficient. Direction and camerawork strike even a casual viewer as especially skillful. The script is serviceable enough too, though some of the players, particularly Julien Mitchell as the mad engineer, are inclined to over-do things a little. Olga Lindo also seems a bit of a pain as the overly sympathetic wife, but that's the fault of the script. Judy Gunn makes a pleasant heroine, and it's nice to see Eve Gray laying on the charm as a confidence girl.

stuarthill-20-770129 The plot is simple: A train driver, unable to accept retirement and wrongly imagining his wife is having an affair, hatches an idea in his fevered mind to give his last train passengers the ride of their lives.The film develops a lickety-split pace once the train's eponymous journey begins, and doesn't let up, as character plots intermingle with typical B-movie haste, stirred up with brisk dialogue, editing and direction, while the mind of the troubled train driver unravels even quicker. Considering its age, the film-making is very sophisticated and the writer throws every type of thrill into the pot, many of which can be seen in movies forty + years hence:--- spoiler alert (train chasing car - French Connection, Bi-Plane chasing train - Silver Streak, trusted husband loosing it and turning into murderous maniac - The Shining, unstoppable train - Silver Streak once more, character vignettes sketched in ahead of disaster - Poseidon Adventure) ---end spoiler alert.Some of the camera-work employed in the car-train sequences would stand up in a Spielberg production. And all this in one short hour of B movie-making; B for "Blimey, what a little corker!"

trimmerb1234 This, had Hitch directed it, would have been considered one of his lesser efforts yet it has many of the elements and one of the stars, (Godfrey Tearle) of his "39 Steps" and lacks nothing in pace or sly humour. Hugh Williams was very much in the Robert Donat mould, albeit a national rather than international star.www.britishpictures.com warns against the easy dismissal of British films post 1927 as "quota quickies" arguing that "The big budget Things To Come, for example, can't be regarded as a quota-quickie yet producer Alexander Korda came to Britain because of the protection the quota offered." while fully accepting that there were dreadful low budget efforts which came into being because of the quota.This is all round, not less than a middle-ranking film in terms of stars,ambition, writing, direction and budget. Reminiscent of silent car/train chase films this steams along at a rattling pace but manages to amuse with the semi-comic conman and woman who get caught up in the plot.Thoroughly entertaining but lacking the brilliance of the Master.

Chris Gaskin 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.