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It's a Train and a Comedy!
The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher. The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.Read moreLess
The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher. The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.
The story
The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher. The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Michael CraigJack Hopkins
Anne HelmKathy Fisher
Jeff DonnellMiriam Fisher
Alan Hale Jr.Paul Fisher
Noel PurcellAdmiral Sir Digby Trevelyan
Cecil ParkerSir Giles Thompson
Roland CulverLord Upshott
Joan SimsNellie Trotter
John StandingHumphrey Gore-Brown
Brian OultonVicar
Sam KyddFred Trotter
Judith FurseMrs. WebbExplore the crew
- Writer
- Vivian Cox
- Producer
- Peter Rogers
- Director
- Gerald Thomas
- Producer
- Frank Bevis
- Writer
- Leslie Bricusse
- Editor
- Archie Ludski