Time Bomb (1953) on Netflix
NR19531h 12mCrimeFilm-NoirThriller
A saboteur rigs a bomb to a freight train carrying naval mines to Portsmouth. The police divert it and call in disposal expert Peter Lyncort, whose wife Janine walked out that evening.
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Plot summary
Peter Lyncort, a former army man living in Birmingham, is the nearest bomb disposal expert, and when a device turns up on a freight train bound for the dockyard at Portsmouth with a load of naval mines, the authorities send for him. The train is shunted onto a disused siding and the streets around it are cleared. His wife Janine has left him that same evening, planning to take a train to London, but at the station she changes her mind and goes home, where she starts looking for him. Railway constable Charles Baron, who fought the saboteur off in a Birmingham railyard and kept the bag he dropped, believes the man will want to see what his device does and travels to Portsmouth.
Cast
- Herbert C. Waltonas Charlie
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Time Bomb (1953)
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- Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane wrote that Time Bomb's compact story, clear narrative trajectory, convincing location work and central performance provided a template for smaller British production outfits seeking international appeal.
