Characters & Themes
Friday the Thirteenth (1933) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1933 · 89 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Victor Saville
- Starring
- Martita Hunt, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn, Frank Lawton, Emlyn Williams, Gibb McLaughlin
On a rainy minute before midnight on Friday the 13th, a London bus driver drives down an empty road when lightning strikes and a crane falls into the bus’s path. Big Ben winds, pulling time into reverse. As the crash looms, we learn passengers’ stories—from a con‑man with a hundred‑pound cheque to a businessman’s wife—showing who lives and who dies.
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