Friday the Thirteenth (1933 film)

Friday the Thirteenth

Directed by	Victor Saville
Written by	Sidney Gilliat Emlyn Williams George Moresby-White
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Starring	Jessie Matthews Ralph Richardson Max Miller Robertson Hare
Cinematography	Charles Van Enger
Edited by	R. E. Dearing
Music by	Bretton Byrd
Production company	Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by	Gaumont British Distributors
Release dates	November 1933 (1933-11) (London, UK)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Friday the Thirteenth is a 1933 British drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale and Muriel Aked.^[1]

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Plot

The film depicts the lives of several passengers in the hours before they are involved in a bus crash.^[2]

Cast

Jessie Matthews as Millie
Sonnie Hale as Alf the Conductor
Muriel Aked as Miss Twigg
Cyril Smith - Fred the Driver
Richard Hulton as Johnny
Max Miller as Joe
Alfred Drayton as The Detective
Hartley Power as American tourist
Percy Parsons as American tourist
Ursula Jeans as Eileen Jackson
Eliot Makeham as Henry Jackson
D. A. Clarke-Smith as Max
Gibb McLaughlin as Florist
Edmund Gwenn as Mr Wakefield
Mary Jerrold as Flora Wakefield
Gordon Harker as Hamilton Briggs
Emlyn Williams as William Blake
Frank Lawton as Frank Parsons
Belle Chrystall as Marry Summers
O. B. Clarence as Clerk
Robertson Hare as Ralph Lightfoot
Martita Hunt as Agnes Lightfoot
Leonora Corbett as Dolly
Ralph Richardson as Horace Dawes
Donald Calthrop as Hugh Nicholls
Ivor McLaren as Dancing instructor
Winifred Poole as Martha
Wally Patch as Bookmaker

Critical reception

AllMovie wrote, "Extraordinarily well cast for a mid-1930s British film, Friday the 13th affords excellent acting opportunities for the likes of Jessie Mathews, Ursula Jeans, Frank Lawton, Ralph Richardson, Max Miller, O.B. Clarence and Emlyn Williams, among many many others. While American critics were impressed by the film, British reviewers were less kind, commenting that the constant switch from one character to another only results in confusion (PS: It doesn't)."^[3]

Home media

On 6 April 2015, Friday the Thirteenth was released on DVD as part of Volume 1 of The Jesse Matthews Revue.^[4]

References

^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH (1933)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
^ "BFI Screenonline: Friday the Thirteenth (1933)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
^ "Friday the 13th (1933) - Victor Saville - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
^ "The Jessie Matthews Revue Vol. 1 [DVD]". amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2015.

External links

Friday the Thirteenth at IMDb
Friday the Thirteenth at the BFI's Screenonline

Films directed by Victor Saville

The Arcadians (1927)
Tesha (1928)
Kitty (1929)
Woman to Woman (1929)
The W Plan (1930)
A Warm Corner (1930)
The Sport of Kings (1931)
Hindle Wakes (1931)
Michael and Mary (1931)
Sunshine Susie (1931)
The Faithful Heart (1932)
Love on Wheels (1932)
The Good Companions (1933)
I Was a Spy (1933)
Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
Evergreen (1934)
Evensong (1934)
The Iron Duke (1934)
The Dictator (1935)
Me and Marlborough (1935)
First a Girl (1935)
It's Love Again (1936)
Action for Slander (1937)
Dark Journey (1937)
Storm in a Teacup (1937)
South Riding (1938)
The Earl of Chicago (1940)
Forever and a Day (1943)
Tonight and Every Night (1945)
The Green Years (1946)
Green Dolphin Street (1947)
Desire Me (1947)
If Winter Comes (1947)
Conspirator (1949)
Kim (1950)
Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951)
24 Hours of a Woman's Life (1952)
The Long Wait (1954)
The Silver Chalice (1954)
My Gun Is Quick (1957)

Films produced by Michael Balcon

The Rat (1925)
The Sea Urchin (1926)
The Triumph of the Rat (1926)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926)
The Mountain Eagle (1926)
Blighty (1927)
Downhill (1927)
The Rolling Road (1927)
Easy Virtue (1927)
One of the Best (1927)
The Vortex (1927)
A South Sea Bubble (1928)
A Light Woman (1928)
The First Born (1928)
The Wrecker (1929)
The Return of the Rat (1929)
City of Play (1929)
Taxi for Two (1929)
Woman to Woman (1929)
Jack's the Boy (1932)
I Was a Spy (1933)
It's a Boy (1933)
Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
Princess Charming (1934)
Evergreen (1934)
Red Ensign (1934)
Along Came Sally (1934)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Car of Dreams (1935)
First a Girl (1935)
Me and Marlborough (1935)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Stormy Weather (1935)
Things Are Looking Up (1935)
The First Offence (1936)
Tudor Rose (1936)
The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
Secret Agent (1936)
Where There's a Will (1936)
Windbag the Sailor (1936)
Doctor Syn (1937)
A Yank at Oxford (1938)
The Gaunt Stranger (1938)
The Four Just Men (1939)
Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)
Let George Do It! (1940)
The Proud Valley (1940)
The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941)
Ships with Wings (1941)
Turned Out Nice Again (1941)
The Big Blockade (1942)
Went the Day Well? (1942)
The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
My Learned Friend (1943)
The Foreman Went to France (1942)
Undercover (1943)
The Bells Go Down (1943)
San Demetrio London (1943)
Nine Men (1943)
For Those in Peril (1944)
Champagne Charlie (1944)
The Halfway House (1944)
Fiddlers Three (1944)
Dead of Night (1945)
Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)
They Came to a City (1945)
Johnny Frenchman (1945)
The Captive Heart (1946)
The Overlanders (1946)
Hue and Cry (1947)
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
Frieda (1947)
Against the Wind (1948)
Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
Another Shore (1948)
Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
Train of Events (1949)
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Whisky Galore! (1949)
A Run for Your Money (1949)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Cage of Gold (1950)
The Blue Lamp (1950)
The Magnet (1950)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Pool of London (1951)
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Mandy (1952)
The Cruel Sea (1953)
The Maggie (1954)
The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
Touch and Go (1955)
The Ladykillers (1955)
The Long Arm (1956)
Barnacle Bill (1957)
The Man in the Sky (1957)
The Shiralee (1957)
Dunkirk (1958)
The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)
The Scapegoat (1959)
The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)

Films produced by Gainsborough Pictures

"Gainsborough melodramas"

The Man in Grey (1943)
Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
Love Story (1944)
Madonna of the Seven Moons (1944)
The Wicked Lady (1945)
They Were Sisters (1945)
Caravan (1946)
The Magic Bow (1946)
The Root of All Evil (1947)
Jassy (1947)
When the Bough Breaks (1947)

Other

The Passionate Adventure (1924)
The Rat (1925)
The Sea Urchin (1926)
The Triumph of the Rat (1926)
Blighty (1927)
The Constant Nymph (1928)
The First Born (1928)
The Return of the Rat (1929)
Taxi for Two (1929)
A Night in Montmartre (1931)
Hindle Wakes (1931)
Jack's the Boy (1932)
It's a Boy (1933)
Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
Wild Boy (1934)
My Old Dutch (1934)
The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
Oh, Mr Porter! (1937)
Doctor Syn (1937)
Strange Boarders (1938)
The Ghost Train (1941)
I Thank You (1941)
Back-Room Boy (1942)
Uncensored (1942)
Dear Octopus (1943)
Bees in Paradise (1944)
Time Flies (1944)
Give Us the Moon (1944)
Two Thousand Women (1944)
Waterloo Road (1945)
A Place of One's Own (1945)
I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945)
Dear Murderer (1947)
Easy Money (1948)
Miranda (1948)
Broken Journey (1948)
My Brother's Keeper (1948)
Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
Vote for Huggett (1949)
It's Not Cricket (1949)
The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
Marry Me! (1949)
The Bad Lord Byron (1949)
Christopher Columbus (1949)
So Long at the Fair (1950)

Films of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat

Gilliat only

Writer only

Director

Waterloo Road (1945)

Launder only