Porter and the droll BBC miniseries Love on a Branch Line, Charles Crichton’s 1953 Ealing comedy, the first shot in Technicolor, celebrates the English love of rural railways run by unworldly ...
It’s been years since legendary local music ensemble Titfield Thunderbolt performed live on stage. What’s an experimental Titfield Thunderbolt concert in 2014 like as opposed to their last performance ...
The scene painted a rose-tinted picture of an English countryside that now seems lost for ever. Steam trains chugged cheerfully through tree-lined cuttings while eccentric vicars, a handsome young ...
It is not often the theatre provides an evening of unadulterated fun. But that is the case with The Titfield Thunderbolt. The talented cast, headed by the ageless Kate O'Mara, gently send up the old ...
ADAPTED by Philip Goulding from the 1953 Ealing comedy film, The Titfield Thunderbolt will open at the Erith Playhouse this month. The play is about a group of villagers who, finding their branch ...
Titfield is a small English village which gets worked up when the government decides to close the unprofitable branch railway line. The vicar and the squire are both railway enthusiasts and are ...
Originally adapted by Philip Goulding for the New Perspectives community theatre company, in the mid-Nineties this stage version of The Titfield Thunderbolt was to be found touring village halls in ...
Porter and the droll BBC miniseries Love on a Branch Line, Charles Crichton’s 1953 Ealing comedy, the first shot in Technicolor, celebrates the English love of rural railways run by unworldly ...
When Tight Little Island set audiences chuckling here and abroad, British film producer sealized that the antics of provincial communities were an untapped reservoir of humor. The latest in the stream ...
Charles Crichton's well-handled film - one of the best Ealing comedies ever made - stars Stanley Holloway and George Relph as inhabitants of a small village in Surrey. After mobilising a spirited ...