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Time Bomb is a British film of genre Thriller released in USA on 14 july 1953 with Glenn Ford
Time Bomb (1953)
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Add to a movie listTime Bomb is a 1953 British-made MGM post-war thriller film written by Kem Bennett and directed by Ted Tetzlaff. It starred Glenn Ford and Anne Vernon. In the US it was released under the title Terror on a Train.
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In Birmingham city, Railway Police Constable Charles Baron (John Horsley) is involved in a confrontation with a man believed to be a local vagrant. The man gets away, but he is soon found out to have been a saboteur, who has left a suitcase full of detonators and bomb-making components at the railway yard. Police realize that the man was attempting to sabotage a trainload of sea mines, destined for the Royal Navy Yard at Portsmouth. The train is stopped as soon as possible in case an explosion is imminent, but a residential area is nearby and the police have to evacuate local residents.Actors
Glenn Ford
(Peter Lyncort)
Anne Vernon
(Janine Lyncort)
Maurice Denham
(Jim Warrilow)
Harcourt Williams
(Vicar)
Victor Maddern
(Saboteur)
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