The Runaway Bus
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The Runaway Bus | |
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Frankie Howerd with Petula Clark in The Runaway Bus |
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Directed by | Val Guest |
Written by | Val Guest |
Starring | Frankie Howerd Petula Clark |
Release date(s) | 1954 |
Running time | 78 min. |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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The Runaway Bus was a comedy/thriller film released in February 1954, produced and directed by Val Guest and starring Frankie Howerd and a young Petula Clark.
[edit] Cast
- Frankie Howerd as Percy Lamb
- Margaret Rutherford as Miss Beeston
- Petula Clark as Lee Nichols
- George Coulouris as Shroeder
- Toke Townley as Henry Waterman
- Terence Alexander as Peter Jones
- Belinda Lee as Janie Grey
[edit] Plot Summary
- Howerd plays Percy Lamb, a coach driver assigned to drive a coach load of passengers diverted from London Airport to Blackbushe Airport owing to London being enveloped in a thick fog. Unbeknown to Percy, there has been a bullion robbery at the Airport and the robbers have stowed the proceeds in the trunk of his coach.